Pushkin, Nikifor Izotovich

Pushkin , Nikifor Izotovich , member of the Cabinet of His Majesty; son of a retired second lieutenant Izot Andreevich P., clan March 3, 1758; in 1770 he was sent to the Artillery Cadet Corps and in 1774 he was released into the 1st fuselier regiment with a bayonet-junker; from 1779 he was a second lieutenant in the artillery Bombardier regiment, in 1786-1789 he was a member of the Commission on the construction of roads in the state, and on October 11, 1790, being captain of field artillery, he was identified as present in the Tsarsky Village Office, and from 7 On October 1717, he led the Construction Expedition in this Office, moreover, by personal election of Imp. Catherine, was determined “to the special supervision of the palace under construction of His Imp. To the Highness ”and was at this post until the end of construction. Produced on November 28, 1796, as a college adviser , Pushkin was appointed a member of the Guff-Quartermaster Office on December 16 of the same year and was appointed by the Highest Decree to the structure of the Mikhailovsky Castle, during the laying of which he brought a shovel to Emperor Paul.

“Having been with the building for more than two years, with my zealous labor,” Pushkin himself says, “the stables and two opposite the palace outbuildings were rebuilt in black and covered. About the production of these buildings ... reports are presented, which was again followed by a command ... about the release of additional amounts and being on the Expedition to those present. All the time I was in the building, the procurement of materials, the hiring of workers cheaper than the estimated prices were found without exceeding the others in the official places of the buildings, and there were no stops ”; however, in 1799, according to the intrigues of the ruler of the building of Count Tiesenhausen, Pushkin was dismissed from being present at the Mikhailovsky Castle expedition.

Consisting all the time as a member of the Goff-Quarterly Office, Pushkin was promoted to state councilors on January 3, 1800, and on November 23 of the same year he was appointed a member of the commission for the construction of the Kazan Cathedral; his name is written on the blackboard laid during the laying of the temple, August 27, 1801 - Appointed, August 1, 1803, with the rank of valid. Art. Advisor, Pushkin in November 1804, "for excellent diligent service, experiments of fidelity and selflessness", rendered to him in favor of the treasury under various buildings, received, in addition to a salary, a life pension of 1875 rubles. per year from the sums of the Cabinet, and in 1805, for the installation of illumination in Peterhof , received from Imp. Alexander I diamond ring; in 1806 he was in charge of the Tauride and Kamennoostrovsky palaces. Dismissed in 1811 from being in the Commission on the construction of the Kazan Cathedral, Pushkin until 1818 was a member of the Hoff-Quartermaster Office; he died of cholera on October 14, 1831. Pushkin was married to the daughter of Gen. Major A. P. Kashkin - Eupraxia Aristarchovna, the niece of one of the accomplices of Imp. Catherine at her accession to the throne.