Putyata, Nikolai Vasilievich

He came from the nobles of the Smolensk province of Putyata : the son of the actual state adviser to the Kriegs commissar General Vasily Ivanovich Putyata from his marriage to Ekaterina Ivanovna (nee Yafimovich).

He received his initial education in the house of Ivan Alexandrovich Pashkov (d. 1828) ^[1] . From March 1819 he studied at the school of columnar leaders , from where he was released as ensign of the quarter-master unit on March 12, 1820. Three years later, on November 24, 1823 he was transferred to the Life Guards Horse Regiment , adjutant to the Governor General of Finland and the commander of the Finnish Corps A. Zakrevsky ^[2] .

According to the presumptive testimony of the Decembrist E.P. Obolensky , he was admitted to the secret society, as a result of which on July 13, 1826, Putyat was “commanded by the highest order to be placed under secret surveillance and to report on behavior every month.” Adjutant General Zakrevsky was informed about this for execution ” ^[3] ; February 26, 1826 he was transferred to the Life Guards Ulansky Regiment ^[4] , with the departure of Adjutant Zakrevsky; November 8, 1828 promoted to staff captains ^[5] . Present at the execution of the Decembrists.

During the Russian-Turkish war of 1828-1829. took part in the campaign, being seconded, on April 24, 1829, to the Quartermaster-General of the Headquarters of the 2nd Army, Major-General D.P. Buturlin , was in the Army's main apartment near Shumlya, then in the detachment of Major-General K. L. Montrezor during the occupation of the town of Russo-Castro, and then was seconded to the head of the 2nd Infantry Corps, Adjutant General Count P.P. Palen ; For participating in the campaigns he was awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 3rd degree with a bow and St. Stanislav of the 4th degree.

In 1830, he was under A.A. Zakrevsky during his trip to Russia to take measures against cholera, for which he received the Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree. On May 29, 1831, secret surveillance was terminated, and on December 11, 1831, he retired as headquarters captain. Upon resigning, he entered the State Secretariat for Finnish Affairs as an assistant to the head of the passport expedition, from March 28, 1833, as the second expeditionary secretary of the chancellery, and from July 10, 1839, as the senior expeditionary secretary; On April 15, 1845 he was promoted to full state councilor.

He retired in November 1851. He lived in Moscow, where he died on October 29 ( November 10 ), 1877 ; He was buried in the Novodevichy Convent (the grave was not preserved ^[6] ).

Wife (from 1837) - Sofya Lvovna Engelhardt (1811–1884), daughter of General L.N. Engelhardt , in 1833 inherited the Muranovo parental estate and possessions in the Tula province (c-o Maloe Skuratovo, Chernsky district ^[7] ). Their daughters are Anastasia (1838–1848 ^[8] ), Olga (1840–1920; married to Ivan Fedorovich Tyutchev , son of the poet) and Catherine (1841–1858).

Back in the first half of the 1820s, Putiata took an active part in the Moscow literary circle of S. E. Raich . In Helsingfors he made friends with E. A. Baratynsky , and through him, in 1826, with A. S. Pushkin . During his life in St. Petersburg, he was close to P. A. Vyazemsky , P. A. Pletnev , V. A. Zhukovsky , V. F. Odoevsky , V. A. Sollogub , and J. K. Grot . In the 1850s, he closely communicated with neighbors on the estate in Muranovo, Aksakov ^[9] .

In 1866, he was temporarily chairman of the Society of lovers of Russian literature .

Constantly collaborated with the Russian Archive ; left a description of the execution of the Decembrists. Among his works:

• "Review of the life and reign of Emperor Alexander I" // Bartenev "Nineteenth Century" Bartenev. - T. I .;
• “A Brief Biographical Memory of Count A. A. Zakrevsky” (Russian Archive, 1865);
• “The Execution of the Decembrists” (“Russian Archive”, 1881, II vol.),
• "On the poem of Baratynsky" Leda "(" Russian Archive ", 1864),
• “Note on the death of Griboedov” (“Russian Archive”, 1871),
• "Andrei Nikolaevich Muravyov" ("Russian Archive", 1883, II vol.),
• “Prince V. F. Odoevsky” (“Russian Archive”, 1874, I vol.),
• “On Countess E.P. Rastopchina” (Russian Archive, 1865),
• “A Case from Censorship Practice” (“Readings in the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature”, 1871, issue III),
• “ A few words about the literary activities of Fyodor Nikolayevich Glinka ” (“Readings in the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature”, 1867, issue I),
• “Karamzin, the first Russian writer” (“Readings in the society of lovers of Russian literature”),
• “The Sejm in Borgo” ( Russian Bulletin , 1860),
• "Muravyov School of Columnists" (Sovremennik, 1852 and separately)
• " Major General N. N. Muravyov " (St. Petersburg: typ. E. Praz, 1852)

He prepared and printed “Notes of Lev Nikolaevich Engelhardt” ( Moscow: typ. Katkova and Co. °, 1860 ; “Russian Archive”, 1867 ; “Russian Archive”, 1868)

• Modzalevsky B. Putyata, Nikolai Vasilievich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Putyata, Nikolai Vasilievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Decembrists. Biographical reference book / Edited by M.V. Nechkina. - M .: Nauka, 1988 .-- S. 148-149, 305 .-- 448 p. - 50,000 copies.

• Putyata Nikolay Vasilievich at Chronos
• Putyata, Nikolai Vasilievich on Lib.ru
• RGALI. - F. 94.