Boyer, Yakov Petrovich

Yakov Petrovich Boyer ( fr. Voue Jacques Alexandre ; November 8, 1768, Montauban - May 26 ( June 7 ) 1838 , St. Petersburg ) - general of the French service; Actual state adviser to the Russian service.

Born in the south of France. But his family had long lived in San Domingo , had land and slaves, which he later inherited from his father. Initially, he served in the French Royal Navy, then transferred to the infantry as lieutenant and adjutant to the Governor of San Domingo, Marshal Marquis Lazal (1792); next year - captain and adjutant of the General Staff; in 1794 - battalion commander in the Western Free Legion ; in 1796 - brigadier commander of this legion. During the year, he commanded the Port-au-Prince district and for 18 months he defended the Jacmemel mountain district from the rebels.

After the victory, Toussin was able to get to France, where he was elected to the French Legislative Assembly from the colonists of San Domingo (1797), and after his dissolution, Napoleon again left for San Domingo and accepted the citizenship of the Republic of Haiti . In 1802, for some time he headed the headquarters of the Leclerc army, was promoted to general. He was captured and spent seven years in England; in 1811, as a result of an exchange, he returned to France.

In 1812 he participated in a campaign in Russia as part of the 9th corps of Marshal Perrin : he was in the headquarters of the 12th division of Count Partuno . He was again captured - under Berezin . He was held captive in Kazan , where he lived in the house of his grandfather D. I. Zavalishin and married the owner’s daughter (and according to Zavalishin’s testimony - to the serf girl of grandfather Lev Vasilievich Tolstoy, who went out of the frostbitten and dying general), gave her an excellent education and had from she has three children (two sons and a daughter). When expelling the captured French to their homeland in 1814, he filed a petition for admission to the Russian service and was called to St. Petersburg. His request was considered personally by Alexander I. Boyer was allowed to stay, retaining the salary of a captive general, but was denied the right to serve. Boyer gave private lessons in French and military sciences, was a tutor in the house of Baron Rall. When General Jean-Pierre Boyer came to power in Haiti in 1822, his relative and his former adjutant in Port-au-Prince, J.P. Boyer was sent by the head of the Russian General Staff, Prince P.M. Volkonsky, to San Domingo with a secret mission in the interests of the French government.

After the events of December 1825, he fell into the alphabet of Borovkov ; the investigative committee checked his ties with the Decembrist D.I. Zavalishin and found out that he had nothing to do with the Decembrist movement.

He was listed in the Cabinet of His Majesty as an official of special assignments under the Minister of the Court, Prince P. M. Volkonsky; State Councilor - from 9.4.1827, then a valid State Councilor.

He died in St. Petersburg. He was buried in the Smolensk Orthodox cemetery ; his son, artillery major general Viktor Yakovlevich Boye (d. 24.01.1909) and grandson Alexander Viktorovich Boye (1866 - 03.21.1898) are buried in the same place ^[1] .