Naryshkin, Alexander Ivanovich

Alexander Naryshkin was born in 1735 into a noble family of room attendant Ivan Ivanovich Naryshkin and his wife Anastasia Alexandrovna (nee Miloslavskaya) ^[1] .

At the age of thirteen, he was appointed a page , and in 1751 he was promoted to cell-page . On May 30, 1755, Alexander Ivanovich Naryshkin was released as lieutenant to the horse guard, in 1758 he was granted chamber junkers, and soon after that he received a chamberlain and was appointed to be under the Russian Emperor Peter III ^[1] .

On May 15, 1759, he married Princess Anna Nikitichna Trubetskoy, daughter of Field Marshal Nikita Yuryevich Trubetskoy , and this wedding was solemnly celebrated in the palace, in the presence of the Empress herself ^[1] .

During the reign of Catherine II, his activity at the court was marked by the Order of St. Anne .

Alexander Ivanovich Naryshkin died on November 24, 1782 in the city of Moscow with the rank of Privy Councilor and was buried in the old Lazarevsky cemetery ^[1] .

His son Ivan also became a valid Privy Councilor and was elected senator. Great-grandson, Prince Leonid Dmitrievich Urusov , is known for his friendly relations with Leo Tolstoy .

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• "The Court of the Russian Emperors in its past and present" in 4 parts. Comp. N.E. Volkov, St. Petersburg, 1890, p. 185.
• " Russian Archive " 1870, 1874, 1897