Alexander Dmitrievich Borovkov

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Senator Alexander Dmitrievich Borovkov
Meeting of the committee of inquiry against the Decembrists, portrayed by Wladimir Adlerberg in 1826 (sitting far right in the back). Alexander Borowkow in the picture on the right.

Alexander Dmitrievich Borowkow ( Russian Александр Дмитриевич Боровков / Aleksandr Borovkov Dmitrievič * May 30 jul. / 10. June  1788 greg. In Saint Petersburg , † November 9 . Jul / 21st November  1856 . Greg ) was a Russian senator and writer . At the end of 1825 he was appointed secretary of the committee of inquiry against the Decembrists .

Alexander Borowkows father, born in 1756, was a Wenjow merchant. The mother, born in 1761, was a noblewoman from the district of Kaschira . Alexander graduated from high school at Moscow University and graduated from the same university in 1808. As a student, he worked for several Moscow newspapers as a translator of poems by foreign-language poets and, after graduating, began a civil servant career at the court .

Borovkow was one of the founders of the Saint Petersburg Free Society of Lovers of Russian Literature, which was established in January 1816 . From 1818 he was editor of the company's St. Petersburg press organ.

In 1818 Borowkow was accepted into the Masonic lodge The Chosen Michaels . Among the heads Fyodor Tolstoy and Fyodor Glinka , for example, Nikolai Gretsch , Anton Delwig , Alexander Jefimowitsch Ismailow, Rafail Michailowitsch Sotow, Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Bestuschew and Wilhelm Küchelbecker were present as Freemasons. From 1821 Borowkow was secretary of the lodge and rose to its spokesman and master from the chair in 1822 .

On December 17, 1825, Nikolaus I appointed him to the committee of inquiry against the Decembrists. Borowkow was of the opinion that he could reduce the sentence of at least ten Decembrists in this committee work. He also wanted to help some others, but could not help - for example Mikhail Lunin . He became known for the Borovkov alphabet - the first listing of Decembrists.

In 1827 Borowkow became Deputy State Secretary of the State Council and later State Secretary for Military Affairs in the State Council.

In 1840 Borowkow became a senator and secret council (= civil servant 3rd class ); had to quit civil service in 1846.

Alexander Borovkov found his final resting place in the family crypt next to the village church Dobroje in the Novgorod district .

Alexander Borowkow had a sister (Alexandra, born 1780) and a brother (Nikolai, born 1792). With his wife Jelena Alexejewna (who died in 1849) he had five children (Sinaida, Michail, Alexander, Vera and Nikolai, born between 1831 and 1836). Borovkov's autobiography, begun in the late 1830s, was published posthumously in 1898.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Borowkow  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian ru: Вольное общество любителей российской словесности
  2. ↑ Freimaurerloge the decabrists at patiks.ru (Russian)
  3. ↑ Russian ru: Измайлов, Александр Ефимович
  4. ↑ Russian ru: Зотов, Рафаил Михайлович
  5. ↑ Russian ru: Бестужев, Николай Александрович
  6. ↑ Natan Jakowlewitsch Eidelman (Russian ru: Эйдельман, Натан Яковлевич ) in your 19th century at vivovoco.astronet.ru (Russian)
  7. ↑ Russian ru: Алфавит Боровкова
  8. ↑ Russian Доброе
personal data
SURNAME Borovkow, Alexander Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Боровков, Александр Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian senator, writer, secretary in the trial of the Decembrists in 1826
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1856