Alexander Petrovich Belyayev

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Alexander Petrovich Belyayev
Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Bestuschew around 1828: View of the Ostrog Tschita

Alexander Petrovich Belyayev ( Russian Александр Петрович Беляев * 1803 , † December 28, 1887 . Jul / 9. January  1888 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian writer and Decembrist .

Life

Alexander came from the noble family of the Belyayevs from the Penza governorate . The father, Pyotr Gavrilowitsch Beljajew (died 1826), sea ​​captain , was a freemason and one of Labsin's friends . Alexander's mother, the Swede Charlotte Iwanowna Werenius, was a Penza landowner's daughter.

Alexander grew up in Yershov, a village in the Chembar district . The father was there under Count AK Rasumowski noble marshal.

Alexander Beljajew graduated from the St. Petersburg Naval Cadet Academy. The practical training on the frigate Proworny (German: nimble, agile) took place on the Baltic Sea and off the coasts of France, England and Iceland. In the Guard of the Imperial Russian Navy he joined the Freemasons - following in his father's footsteps - and helped prepare the uprising of the Decembrists.

As a Decembrist, Alexander Belyayev was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress until February 1, 1827 . Years of forced labor followed in the Ostrog Tschita and in the Katorga Peter hut . Maria Volkonskaya reports that she saw three young lieutenants - Frolov together with the Belyayev brothers - in the Ostrog Chita at the time. On July 23, 1833, Alexander Belyayev was released from this penitentiary and forcibly resettled in Minusinsk in the Jenisseisk governorate. He and his brother Pyotr were successful farmers there for years.

From 1840 he and his brother had to serve as common soldiers in the Caucasus War. For bravery in the face of the enemy, Alexander Belyayev became an officer again in 1845 and left the troops as a lieutenant in 1846. Until his rehabilitation in 1856 - after Nikolai I's death - he worked in various professions in the civilian sector in his old homeland; for example with the Volga steamship and as a real estate agent.

After the amnesty mentioned, he wrote his memoirs and pursued theological studies. Alexander Belyayev went blind in old age. He was buried in the Wagankowo cemetery .

literature

  • Princess Maria Volkonskaya : Memories. Title of the Russian original: Записки княгини М. Н. Волконской. Epilogue, notes and translated into German by Lieselotte Remané . Re-seals: Martin Remané. Buchverlag Der Morgen, Berlin 1978 (1st edition, 168 pages)

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Web links

  • Entry at dekabrist.mybb.ru (Russian)
  • Entry at photochronograph.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. Russian Беляевы
  2. Russian Капитан 1-го ранга
  3. Russian селo Ершов
  4. ^ Russian noble family of the Rasumowskis
  5. Russian Морской кадетский корпус
  6. Russian Проворный (фрегат, 1820)
  7. Russian Читинский острог
  8. Volkonskaya, p. 76, 16. Zvo
  9. Russian. “Воспоминания о пережитом и перечувствоване. 1805-1850 "(for example:" Memories, experiences and adventures up to 1850 ")