Grigorov, Alexander Nikolaevich

Born in 1799 in the Lipka estate of Epiphanian district of the Tula province . He was the eldest son of the landowner Nikolai Vasilievich Grigorov. During the war, N.V. Grigorov, a second lieutenant, joined the ranks of the Tula militia, and sent his family to the estate of Beryozovka (in the Kostroma province ), which was inherited by his wife Anastasia Afanasyevna, nee Soymonova, from her mother, Claudia Afanasyevna Nevelskaya . At the end of the war, a family of 7 children remained in Berezovka, where their few serfs from the Tula estate were transferred. N.V. Grigorov died in 1848. He divided his possessions between the children: almost all the lands of Tula went to the second son, Nikolai Nikolaevich, and the Kostroma lands, located in Makaryevsky and Kineshem districts, to the rest of the sons: the elder Alexander and the younger Ivan, Sergey and the daughter of Maria.

In 1821, Alexander Grigorov joined the military cadet in the 6th artillery brigade deployed in Ukraine. At that time, under the leadership of the commander of the Vyatka infantry regiment, Colonel P.I. Pestel , the Southern Secret Society was actively operating. When Grigorov was promoted to ensign (first officer rank), he ended up in the 20th artillery brigade in Tulchin . Alexander Nikolaevich succumbed to the ideas of the then officer environment and became close to many future Decembrists . Communication with them was interrupted in 1823, when Grigorov resigned as lieutenant and subsequently, after the defeat of secret societies, this allowed him to avoid persecution.

Having left the army, Alexander Nikolayevich married his long-time lover, Maria Alexandrovna Polozova, the widowed daughter of the landowner A.V. Polozov, the owner of several villages in the Galich district of the Kostroma province. Immediately after his marriage, he moved to the Alexandrovskoye estate of the Kinesham district, which he bought. Grigorov’s first marriage lasted 9 years, the family had four children: Ivan (1826-1892), Lyudmila (1827—?), Kronid (1830-1856), Mitrofan (1834-1894). During the last birth, Maria Alexandrovna passed away, and her mother Terezia Mikhailovna assumed the subsequent care of the children.

He served in the elections from the nobility as a captain-commander and lived in his estate Aleksandrovskoye-Penki. After the death of his father, Alexander Nikolayevich Grigorov moved to the inherited estate Staroe Pokrovskoye. His second wife was the sister of the discoverer of Siberian gold mines, the millionaire and philanthropist P.V. Golubkov , Alexander Vasilievna Golubkov, whom he met in the mid-1840s. In 1858, after the death of the latter, the Grigorov spouses got a huge fortune, most of which Aleksandr Nikolayevich donated to charity and to equip Kostroma ^[2] , including assistance in the restoration of the Epiphany Monastery after the fire in 1847 and the restoration of the city ​​theater after a fire.

He had his own house in Kostroma , and around 1855 Grigorov moved there and was elected conscientious judge.

Grigorov School

At the expense of A. N. Grigorov, on August 25, 1857, in Kostroma, the "first-grade school for girls of all classes" was opened. Grigorov himself provided active financial support to the new institution: he personally paid for the services of nine teachers, paid rental and heating fees. In 1858, the school was visited by Emperor Alexander Nikolaevich and Empress Maria Alexandrovna .

In August 1860, the school moved to its own stone house on the street. Pyatnitskaya, bought and repaired at his own expense. After the death of A.N. Grigorov, by the Highest Command, on May 24, 1870, the school was transformed into the Grigorovskoye gymnasium , which became the first female gymnasium in the entire Russian Empire ^[3] . By 1907, more than 700 students studied at the gymnasium ^[4] .

In addition, the Epiphany Monastery , the Kostroma Theater , and other institutions were restored at his expense ^[5] . In the eyes of contemporaries A.N. Grigorov looked not only a prominent benefactor, but also a man of liberal views. Grigorov was sharply negative about serfdom, so he not only personally ordered the release of the peasants belonging to him free, but also helped them get a job at the Shipovs Kostroma plant.

Alexander Nikolaevich Grigorov died in 1870. He was buried in the village of Spas-Zaborye of the Kinesham district of the Kostroma province.

His son, Mitrofan Alexandrovich, graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod gymnasium , served in the Grenadier Pernovsky regiment and, having retired with the rank of lieutenant, married in 1859 his second cousin Anna Nikolaevna Soymonova. They had a lot of children - 16 people, three of them died in childhood, and they raised thirteen children and gave everyone an excellent education. Among them: Alexander Mitrofanovich Grigorov (1867-1915), the former permanent trustee of the Kostroma Gymnasium ^{[6] [7]} and Nikolai Mitrofanovich Grigorov (1873-1944), who became rear admiral .

• Poltavskaya E.I. "Grigorov-waltz": on the history of the creation of the first female gymnasium in Russia . // School library. - 2007. - No. 3.
• Grigorov A. A. From the life of Alexander Nikolayevich Grigorov // From the history of the Kostroma nobility / Comp., Entry. Art. and notes by N. A. Zontikov. - Kostroma, 1993 .-- 472 p.: Ill. - ISBN 5-7184-0005-9 .