Alexander Alexejewitsch Vyazemsky

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Alexander Alexejewitsch Vjasemski ( Carl Ludwig Johann Christineck , 1768, Tretyakov Gallery )

Prince Alexander Alexejewitsch Vjasemski ( Russian Александр Алексеевич Вяземский ; * August 3 July / August 14,  1727 greg .; † January 8 July / January 19,  1793 greg. ) Was a Russian officer, civil servant and politician .

Life

Vyazemsky came from an old princely family , which was traced back to Vladimir Vsevolodowitsch Monomach's grandson Rostislav I. He left the First Cadet Corps in St. Petersburg in 1747 .

In the Seven Years' War against Prussia , he not only took part in the battles, but also carried out secret exploratory missions. At the end of the war he was Quartermaster General . In December 1762 Catherine II sent him to the Urals to settle the problems between the rebellious peasants and their owners in the steelworks . In 1763 he was called back and Alexander Ilyich Bibikov took over his task.

Musinka mansion

In February 1764, Catherine II. Vyazemsky appointed General Procuror of the Senate to succeed the dismissed General Procurator Alexander Ivanovich Glebow . In her secret service instructions she obliged Vyazemsky to deal openly and honestly with the respective ruler in all matters, to only serve the state's welfare, to ignore the influences of the people and to avoid intrigues. He did not disappoint expectations and enjoyed the Empress's full confidence, as her letters showed. He not only headed the Senate, but also controlled the salt and wine taxes . In contrast to his predecessors, procurors of the governorate administrations established in 1775 worked under his leadership . In the 1780s he also became responsible for justice , finance and domestic politics. He was the first in Russia to introduce strict financial control with precise accounting of the annual income and expenditure of the state. He was General Porutschik and since 1774 Real Privy Councilor (2nd class ).

Trinity Church Alexandrovskoye

Vyazemsky practically alone led the secret expedition , which dealt with all political problems during the reign of Catherine II: the Pugachev uprising , Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev's and Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov's publications and many others. The highest investigator was Stepan Ivanovich Scheschkowski .

Vyazemsky was married to Jelena Nikitichna Trubetskaya, daughter of the former General Procurator Nikita Yuryevich Trubetskoy, since 1768 . As a dowry, Vyazemsky had received the village of Alexandrowskoye southeast of St. Petersburg on the left bank of the Neva . In 1768 he bought the neighboring site on the Mursinka tributary of the Neva from Count Alexander Romanowitsch Voronzow and had the Mursinka manor house built there as his summer residence with a garden and park. 1785–1790 he had the Trinity Church built in Alexandrowskoje by Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Lwow . The Vyazemsky couple had 4 daughters: Ekaterina married Count Dmitri Alexandrovich Tolstoy , Anna married the Neapolitan ambassador Antonio Maresca , Praskovja married Count Dmitri Alexandrovich Zubov and Varvara married the Danish ambassador Baron Niels Rosenkrantz .

In September 1792 Vyazemsky gave up his post due to illness. His modest tombstone is in the Church of the Annunciation of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery . The Mursinka mansion inherited Vyazemsky's daughter Anna and then her grandson Anton Stepanowitsch Apraxin .

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Большая российская энциклопедия: ВЯ́ЗЕМСКИЙ Александр Алексеевич (accessed August 16, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d Sudeikin WT : Вяземский (князь Александр Алексеевич) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . VIIa, 1892, p. 718 ( Wikisource [accessed August 16, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Екатерина II .: Письма императрицы Екатерины II к князю А.А. Вяземскому . In: Русский архив . 2nd Edition. Moscow 1866, p. 625-632 ( [1] [accessed August 16, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Citywalls: Усадьба Мурзинка (accessed on August 16, 2019).
  5. ↑ церковь "Кулич и Пасха" (accessed August 16, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Vyazemsky, Alexander Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Вяземский, Александр Алексеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian officer, civil servant and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1727
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1793