Basilevsky, Ivan Fedorovich

Born in the family of Sterlitamak priest (later archpriest) Fyodor Ivanovich Basilevsky, from the nobility of the Orenburg province.

In his youth, he held minor bureaucratic positions in St. Petersburg, by 1820 was the provincial secretary. In 1819 he was initiated into Freemasonry in the St. Petersburg box of the “Chosen Michael”. Soon he left the capital, in 1821–1824 he was secretary under the Orenburg civil governor (later this position was occupied by his brother Peter). He moved to the merchants, successfully engaged in wine sales and furs trade.

The funds received invested in gold mines in Eastern Siberia, and soon brought the level of gold production to 60 pounds per year ^[1] . The owner of a huge fortune. Famous philanthropist. Rural churches and schools were built at his expense. By 1836, he was already listed as an honorary supervisor of the Ufa district school. Donated a significant amount for the construction of the first theater in Ufa. He handed over to the treasury the building belonging to him in Ufa for the opening of the Orenburg school of the first category for one hundred girls. In 1865, the school was transformed into the Ufa Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium ^[2] .

He made large donations in favor of the Public Library in St. Petersburg, its honorary member since 1851.

From Ufa moved to St. Petersburg . In 1860 he became a trustee of the Alexander-Mariinsky shelter for poor children, based on the means of the imperial family, in fact, he kept the shelter at his own expense. Honorary member of the St. Petersburg Board of Trustees of orphanages, Ufa Trustee of the Poor Committee. In 1862, he was awarded the rank of State Councilor for his charitable activities.

He died in St. Petersburg on April 22, 1878 and was buried at the Nikolsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery ^[3] .

Wife - Varvara Petrovna Oznobishina (1807–06.09.1892), sister of the writer D. P. Oznobishin . According to contemporaries, there was a good-natured and hospitable woman ^[4] , endowed with poetic talent ^[5] . Following the example of her husband, she was an active philanthropist and was friendly with Metropolitan Isidore . The latter was in her house so often that the emperor found it indecent. According to the diary of Bogdanovich, the metropolitan carriage always stood for a long time at the Basilevskys, he came at 2 o'clock, and left at 8 o'clock. They said that he was resting there and Alexandra Dubbelt walks to pack him ^[6] . Madame Basilevskaya died at the age of 85, after two months of illness, and was buried next to her husband. Children:

• Natalya Ivanovna (09.07.1829–17.05.1869), the wife of General Baron Alexander Karlovich Tetenborn (1815-1889). She died suddenly in Strasbourg ^[7] and was buried in Wiesbaden next to her brother.
• Olga Ivanovna (08/09/1831 —?), Was brought up at the Catherine Institute in St. Petersburg.
• Fedor Ivanovich (08.25.1834—04.01.1895), Privy Councilor.
• Ekaterina Ivanovna (01/12/1836—31.01.1884), in Markelov's marriage.
• Lidia Ivanovna (February 1, 1838 — after 1917), married to the real state councilor N. Kondyrev.
• Elizaveta Ivanovna (April 15, 1839–1923), a beauty known at the time, in the first husband Shupinskaya, in a second marriage with Count N. A. Kushelev-Bezborodko ; in the third for the aide-de-camp prince A. A. Suvorov-Rymniki .
• Viktor Ivanovich (06/15/1840-09.03.1929), after the death of his father, became one of the richest people in the Russian Empire. From two marriages had 14 children. After the revolution, he emigrated to Estonia, died in Hungerburg, and was buried in the local cemetery.
• Adelaida Ivanovna (11/18/1842 —?), In the first marriage for L. A. Bravura; in the second (04/09/1871, Brussels) for Henry Fitz-James Stuart and Ventimiglia (1826-1881), comte de Galve .
• Nikolai Ivanovich (11/30/1843–20/05/1864), collegiate registrar, died in Miran, was buried in Wiesbaden.
• Alexandra Ivanovna (1844? - after 1918), married to N. L. Dubelt .

• Bazilevsky Ivan Fedorovich // List of civil ranks of the fourth class. Volume I. Corrected on March 1, 1878. - SPb. : Printing house of the Governing Senate , 1878. - T. I. - p. 76-77.
• Serkov A. I. Russian Freemasonry. 1731-2000 Encyclopedic Dictionary. - M .: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2001. - 1224 p. - 3 000 copies - ISBN 5-8243-0240-5 .