Alexander Lwowitsch Naryschkin (Lord Chamberlain)
Alexander Lwowitsch Naryschkin ( Russian Александр Львович Нарышкин Aleksandr L'vovič Naryškin ; born April 14, 1760 , † January 21, 1826 in Paris ) was a Russian superior chamberlain.
Life
Alexander, son of the head stable master Lev Alexandrovich Naryschkin (1733-1799) and his wife Countess Sofja Ossipowna Apraksina (* 1743), was educated by private tutors and traveled extensively on a grand tour abroad. After returning home, the young man served in the Izmailovo bodyguard regiment in Saint Petersburg as a staff captain .
Having become a chamberlain in 1778 , Alexander Naryschkin concentrated on his career at court; accompanied Catherine II to Mogilev in Belarus and became chamberlain in 1785 . Paul I made his friend Alexander Naryschkin Oberhofmarschall in 1798 and director of the Imperial Theater of the Russian Empire in 1799. In 1812 he became a member of the special committee for the management of all St. Petersburg and Moscow theaters. In 1815 he accompanied Elisabeth Alexejewna , wife of Alexander I , to the Congress of Vienna . After his return he went abroad again for years. In 1819 he resigned from the post of director of the Imperial Theater and became an honorary member of the Russian Art Academy in Petersburg and head of the aristocratic marshals of the Petersburg governorate. In 1820 he went with Ludwig Richter to southern France and Paris, where he stayed until his end and died in 1826 of dropsy.
Alexander Naryshkin found his final resting place next to his wife in the cemetery of the Church of the Holy Spirit in St. Petersburg's Alexander Nevsky Monastery .
family
Alexander Naryschkin was married to Marija Alexejewna, née Senjawina (1762-1822). The couple had four children.
- Jelena Alexandrovna (1785–1855)
- Lev Alexandrovich (1785–1846), lieutenant general , participant in the Patriotic War , Odessa acquaintance of Pushkin
- Kirill Alexandrowitsch (1786–1838), Chief Chamberlain
- Marija Alexandrovna († 1800 as a young girl)
Maria Alexeyevna
Jelena
Lev
Kirill
Honors
- 1797 Russian Order of Saint Anne 1st class
- 1798 Alexander Nevsky Order
- 1799 Order of St. Andrew the First Called
- 1799 Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
anecdote
Although Alexander Naryshkin was well off, lack of money and debts are said to have been normal in his case. It is said that the diamonds he was awarded in 1818 for the Order of St. Andrew the First Called were said to have been carried by the bon vivant to the pawnbroker . Alexander I knew of the weakness of his follower and once gave him a book, the pages of which consisted of banknotes. Naryshkin is said to have used up the big bills soon and asked the emperor for a new book. The ruler laughingly complied with the request - albeit with the marginal comment that the publisher had now completed the edition of the banknote book.
The Epicurean Naryshkin joked in every situation, even when there was nothing to laugh about; for example during the fire in the Bolshoi Theater in 1811.
When he died on the Paris deathbed, the debt baron is said to have shouted - quite loudly for a dying man - that for the first time in his life he was not repaying a believer , but nature's debt.
The bon mots ascribed to him could form a whole collection of jokes.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lord Chamberlain = 2nd class at court
- ^ Gerd Spitzer: Ludwig Richter in the Dresden gallery . Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2007, p. 53, ISBN 978-3-940319-09-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Naryschkin, Alexander Lvowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Нарышкин, Александр Львович (Russian); Naryškin, Aleksandr L'vovič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Lord Chamberlain |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 14, 1760 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1826 |
| Place of death | Paris |