Zhdanov, Semyon Romanovich

Born in 1803; came from a noble family of Zhdanovs . Having received his home education, on October 1, 1817 he entered the service of a clerk in the Elizavetgrad Zemsky Court , and two years later he was transferred to the Kherson Provincial Government with a secondment to the office of the civil governor.

In 1824 he retired, but less than a year later he again entered the service of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire . Here he quickly began to move up the career ladder and in 1829, already with the rank of college assessor , he was transferred to Western Siberia - “ Tobolsk state affairs lawyer”, and a little later - he was approved as correcting the position of adviser and head of the main department of Western Siberia. In 1834, S.R. Zhdanov was dismissed from this post and then transferred to the Ministry of the Interior as a special assignment officer. Two years later, he was moved by the governor of the office of the Chernigov, Poltava and Kharkov Governor-Generals, and in 1840 he was appointed head of the 1st branch of the “executive police” department.

In 1841, he was appointed to be under the control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Adjutant General Count A. G. Stroganov , with whom he went on a business trip to the province affected by crop failure. For successfully executed assignments entrusted to him by Count Stroganov, he was promoted to college counselor .

Three years later, Zhdanov was appointed ruler of the office of the St. Petersburg Military Governor-General, and with a change of staff, he was renamed to the manager of the same office; On April 7, 1846, “ in consideration of excellent diligent service, ” Zhdanov was promoted to full state councilor . Since 1847, he took an active part in a number of committees, such as, for example, established to take measures against the cholera epidemic in St. Petersburg , a guardian society about prisons, and for charity of the poor.

In 1855, Zhdanov, according to his desire, was dismissed from the post of manager of the office of the St. Petersburg Military Governor General with the appointment of the Committee's vice-president for the analysis and charity of the poor . But in the same year he left this post, as he received a new appointment as the director of the executive police department; January 1, 1858 was awarded the rank of Privy Councilor. In the same year, he again acted as an active member of various committees: a committee to review the normal conditions for the maintenance of postal stations, a committee on provincial and district institutions. In the same year, he was ordered to become a member of the council of the Ministry of the Interior, and in 1862 he was entrusted with the chairmanship of a special commission established by the same ministry to review the passport charter and the commission to study abuses in Sunday schools. Then he was appointed a member of the commission established under the chairmanship of Prince A.F. Golitsyn.

In 1863, he was entrusted with the chairmanship of the main investigative commission for political affairs in Kazan , from where he again returned to the commission of Prince Golitsyn.

Finally, on April 19, 1864, Zhdanov was appointed to attend the Governing Senate . In the autumn of that year, he was sent to the Simbirsk province to investigate the case of fires , which almost destroyed the city of Simbirsk then.

He died on November 8 ( 20 ), 1865 in Nizhny Novgorod , while returning to the capital from a Siberian business trip. He was buried in St. Petersburg, at the cemetery of the Novodevichy Convent ^[1] .

• Vasilevskaya M. Zhdanov, Semen Romanovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.