Bogdanovich, Evgeny Vasilievich

His father belonged to an old noble family of the Bogdanovichs of the Kherson province ; mother - nee Albrant .

Evgeny Vasilievich Bogdanovich graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps , he began his service in the Black Sea Fleet: as midshipman (1843), and then midshipman (1846). In 1851, he left the service in the Navy and was appointed as ensign as adjutant under the Novorossiysk Governor General .

In 1861, Bogdanovich, with the rank of colonel, was a member of the Ministry of the Interior. In this service, he made a significant contribution to the organization of fire brigades throughout Russia. Since 1861, at the suggestion of Minister P.A. Valuev, he investigated the situation of the fire and insurance units in 15 provinces, organized public fire brigades, and founded the school of fire masters. Actively promoted the idea of ​​building a number of railways; in 1866 he was sent to the Vyatka and Perm provinces to combat the consequences of crop failure; In the report on the work, Bogdanovich proposed in order to prevent starvation in the Ural region in the future to build a railway “from the inner provinces to Yekaterinburg and further to Tyumen,” which “if subsequently laid through Siberia to the Chinese border, would receive important strategic and international commercial significance” - One of the early projects of the Siberian Railway is the future Trans-Siberian Railway . Having received the necessary funds for the “Project of the Siberian-Ural Railway” (1868), Bogdanovich organized surveys in 1868-1869, as a result of which a detailed plan for the construction of the Kazan-Yekaterinburg-Tyumen road ^[1] was developed. In November 1867, he became an honorary citizen of Tyumen ; many residents of the cities through which it was planned to run the railway elected him their honorary citizen ( Yekaterinburg , Kamyshlov, Sarapul), and his name was immortalized in the name of one of the hub stations near Yekaterinburg - "Bogdanovich." Although the Trans-Siberian Railway passed south, through Miass and Kurgan, in 1886 the Yekaterinburg-Tyumen road began to operate. In the same year, the essay "On the Siberian Railway" (1886) was published.

Deeply religious, according to contemporaries, a man, he was elected headman of St. Isaac's Cathedral (1878).

In 1887, he fell into disgrace of Alexander III and was dismissed from service. However, he was soon returned; March 25, 1888 he was promoted to Privy Councilor and appointed member of the Council of the Minister of the Interior ^[2] .

On January 14, 1909, “secret allowance” was assigned to Bogdanovich: P. A. Stolypin - to Bogdanovich in a letter dated January 15, 1909: “... in view of the long-term excellent-diligent service, instead of renting, a lifetime unspoken allowance of 2000 rubles per year” .

Evgeny Vasilievich Bogdanovich died in Yalta and was buried in the Nikolsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg . The grave has not survived to date; at the beginning of the 21st century, the Revival of Cultural Heritage charity foundation installed a memorial double-sided granite board near the Nikolskaya Church (the second side is dedicated to General Rostislav Vladimirovich Krassovsky , whose burial after the October revolution was also destroyed by the Bolsheviks ) ^[3] .

A. F. Koni ^[4] wrote about Bogdanovich as follows:

This was the famous colonel Bogdanovich, the headman of St. Isaac's Cathedral and, the publisher of the oil-serf brochures, which later, extorting subsidies from the government, he zealously and widely poisoned the identity of the Russian people

E.V. Bogdanovich published many descriptions of holy places and biographies of the most revered saints, as well as paintings of religious, moral and patriotic content, many monarchist brochures for the common people. He published the magazines "The Department of St. Isaac's Cathedral" and "The Department of St. Andrew's Cathedral" (together with John of Kronstadt ). He undertook trips around Russia, accompanied by a massive distribution of his published literature ^[4] .

V.M. Zhirmunsky wrote in his diary in the spring of 1905:

Dad arrived soon too. He was with one of his patients, the famous "general from patriotism" Bogdanovich. This strange type is Bogdanovich! And “what would be even funnier if it weren’t so sad”, such people rule Russia! <...> he began to question Papa, where he serves, and, learning that in a hospital under the Ministry of the Interior, he exclaimed: “Ah! in our ministry? In this case, I can introduce you to the star ”

He was a convinced monarchist . In 1913, having published the book "The 300th Century of the Romanov Sovereign House, 1613-1913," he wrote to Nicholas II :

Why is there a thought, amnesty, patriarchate, constitution? The Tsar invokes God's blessing on His people, and in the house of every loyal subject - joy and merriment: and enough, and signature, and cheers, popular cheers for our Tsar

• "Navarin 1827-1877 gg.",
• "Sinop, November 18, 1853",
• Nasr-Eddin Shah and his departure to Russia in 1873
• “The Guard of the Russian Tsar on the Sofia Road on October 12, 1877 ”,
• “ Arrows of the imperial family ”,
• "Russia in the Far East",
• Clan of princes Baryatinsky
• The Tsar Liberator: Rus. to the people as a keepsake
• "The Department of St. Isaac's Cathedral" (collection of sermons).

Brothers: two brothers, Orest and Victor , died during the Sevastopol campaign , another brother, Leo , in Little Chechnya during the Caucasian War .

Wife: Alexandra Viktorovna (1846–1914), daughter of the Jägermeister of the Court of His Imperial Majesty, director of the Stroganov School V.I. Butovsky ^[5] , was the mistress of a secular salon with a serious political bias, kept a diary (partially published in 1924 under the title “Three Last autocrat ").

Son: Nikolai (1870-1905) - Russian statesman, vice-governor of the Turgai region, as well as the Ufa and Tambov provinces, a victim of revolutionary terror , was killed by the Socialist Revolutionary Katin.

• Until 1917, the city primary school No. 5–36 operated in Odessa, bearing the name of General E. V. Bogdanovich ^[6]

• Black hundred. Historical Encyclopedia 1900-1917. - M.: Kraft +, Institute of Russian Civilization, 2008.

• Bogdanovich, Evgeny Vasilievich (neopr.) . // Project "Russian Army in the Great War".