Knyazev, Anisim Titovich

Came from a noble family of Knyazevs of the Kostroma district . There were various versions about the origin of the composer of the herb. He himself, in a "fairy tale" of 1753, submitted to the Votchin College, claimed that his ancestors served as city nobles in Kostroma and the ancestor Mikhail Knyazev was listed in the generation painting of 1627 as a city nobleman. However, according to modern research, in fact, they were gunners: his great-grandfather, Agap Emelyanovich Knyazev, was a Pushkar settlement in the city of Kashira, Pushkar, died in the first Azov campaign of Peter I , grandfather Lazar Agapovich, according to the revision, was written in gunners, and after the resignation he served in the office of the Commissioner for the collection of air taxes. Heraldist’s father Tit Lazarevich from Pushkar’s children, served as a sub-clerk in the Kashir Town Hall and was a merchant ^[1] , like Anisim’s brother, also a Kashir merchant. His nephews, on dismissal from the merchants, served, one major, the other guard as a sergeant ^[2] . Anisim was born in Kashira and since birth he was listed by the Kashir nobility, despite the fact that he worked in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

In service since 1735, according to the State. archive, managed in the training and knowledge of spiritual and civil affairs in various public places, until 1741.

Since 1741, he was a copyist at the Votchinny collegium, where he copied scribe books for the preparation of a general land survey, and in his case it was indicated that he had collected more than 50,000 notebooks ^[3] . In 1743 he received the rank of sub-clerk, then clerk, in 1750 the rank of registrar ^[3] . Since 1752, he was the secretary of the newly established commission to compose a boundary instruction and a commission on runaway peasants, on goods concealed from duties, and on the fires of the Commission in Moscow. In 1753, Knyazev was commissioned to be with assessor Lyapunov to procure materials belonging to the palace structure ^[3] . Since 1754 - Secretary in the Main Border Chancellery , then Secretary of the Patrimonial College , Chief Secretary of the Expedition, Chief Secretary of the 2nd Department of the Senate from 1764-1768. In May 1767, the nobles of Krapivinsky district elected Knyazev to the commission to draft a new code, where he took an active part and was elected to the Commission on obligations on June 13, 1768 (this election indicates that Knyazev had property in Krapivinsky district). Not later than 1772 A.T. Knyazev began to engage in historical work when he took a copy from the discharge book. Since 1766 - a deputy from Kashira county to the commission for the composition of the New Code . Since 1775 - a member of the provincial boundary office in Moscow , renamed in 1777 simply as the boundary boundary office. Knyazev’s knowledge of patrimonial and boundary affairs was extensive and attracted attention and no later than February 1775 he was called to St. Petersburg, where he continued his service. In March 1775 he received the rank of state adviser, supervised the compilation of the Register of Orders in Moscow at the Bit-Senate Archive. In 1775, thanks to the patronage of the Attorney General of the Senate , Prince A.A. Vyazemsky , received a responsible assignment from Catherine II - dismantled the papers of the late State Secretary of the Empress G.V. Kozitsky ^[4] . In February 1776 he was entrusted with G.F. Miller to identify in the Bit-Senate Archive documents on the nobility services and class legislation ^[4] , as a result, a collection of materials “The choice of laws on the nobility” appeared, among other things, it included genealogical sources: a preface to the Velvet Book of 1688. and copies of 17 generation murals. These materials interested Catherine II and, at her request, A.T. Knyazev continued the search for similar manuscripts, compiling in April 1776. a note on the number of murals of the late XVII century and a list of 754 princely and noble families, which contained information about the origin, formation of surnames and generation murals. In 1776 dismantled the launched archive of the Land Survey Chancellery, improved its drawing part, compiled the "Instructions for Surveyors". The question arose about streamlining the transfer of state-owned wasteland, as a result of which their sale in 1778. has been discontinued. He is credited with the idea of ​​a device at the Land Survey Office of the land survey school, which was later transformed into the Konstantinovsky Land Survey Institute. On behalf of Catherine II of April 6, 1777 A.A. Vyazemsky told Knyazev 25 questions of the empress, asking them to give answers. The items dealt with various aspects of the state structure and administration of Moscow Russia, various aspects of economic life and social relations. In 1779 A.T. Knyazev is suspended from work accused of major abuses. In his memoirs A.T. Bolotov writes about Knyazev as, on the one hand, an enlightened person, and on the other, as a typical official of the 18th century, taking bribes for granted ^[5] . In April 1785 From several versions of the text "The Charter of the Nobility, " Catherine II chose the project of A.T. Knyazev. In December 1785 A.T. Knyazev presents the manuscript of the handwriter to Catherine II ^[6] . As indicated by N.P. Barsukov , almost nothing is known about the last years of Knyazev’s life, except that he apparently lived in St. Petersburg, where he met G.D. Derzhavin and through him with the publisher I.G. Rachmaninov and N.I. Novikov , with whom together published the first work in Russian historiography on the history of the Russian nobility - the work of G.F. Miller: News of the Russian nobles . In compiled by one of the descendants of A.T. Knyazev's note on his life states that he died without leaving any funds, there was nothing to bury him at all ^[7] . He was buried at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg.

The author of several works on history and genealogy, which he was engaged in from an early age.

19th Century Historians Studying A.T. Knyazev, drew attention to correspondence with Prince A.A. Vyazemsky 1776-1777 years. This correspondence is of considerable interest as a source on the history of land surveying in Russia, genealogy, Russian historiography of the 18th century and as a monument to the spiritual culture of that time ^[8] .

Wife Irina Afanasevna Knyazeva, in 1780 bought for 13 500 rubles from Prince V.P. Prozorovsky village near Moscow Borisovskoye Zyuzino (now Zyuzino district in Moscow), which for 5 years led a lawsuit with Princess A.A. Urusova, when she discovered that she had acquired for half a fortune only half of the estates, and besides, without a precisely defined and fixed boundary. In August 1780, as a co-owner of the village, state adviser A.T. Knyazev petitioned the Moscow Spiritual Consistory with a petition for repair at his own expense of the church of Boris and Gleb in the village, for which he received permission. Under the mortgage of April 4, 1785, the spouses of the Knyazeva took a loan from Irina Ivanovna Beketova for the mortgage of the village and, without paying on time, the village went away II. Beketova. Living in Moscow in an alley at the Tver Gate and being a parishioner of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Gnezdiki (Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin), Anisim Titovich, at his own expense, decorated the main church with an iconostasis and wall painting ^[9] .

• Stamp of Anisim Titovich Knyazev

• Knyazev // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Troitsky S.N. Herbnik of Anisim Titovich Knyazev of 1785. - SPb. , 1912.
• A.P. Barsukov. Review of sources and literature of Russian genealogy. SPb. 1887 p. 22-24.
• A.P. Barsukov. A.T. Knyazev. The hard worker of the last century. RA. 1885, vol. 2. p. 461.
• L.M. Savelov. Lectures on Russian genealogy. M. 1908, Part 2, pp. 136-137.
• E.I. Kamentseva. N.V. Ustyugov. Russian sphragistics and heraldry. M. 1974, pp. 27-28.