Alexander Sergeevich Stroganov

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Alexander Sergejewitsch Stroganow with the plan of the Kazan Cathedral at the window with a view of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg ( AG Warnek , 1814)

Alexander Sergeyevich Stroganov ( Russian Александр Сергеевич Строганов ; born January 3 jul. / 14. January  1733 greg. In Moscow , † September 27 jul. / 9. October  1811 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian landowner , art collector and Politician .

Life

Stroganow was the only son of the iron and steel works owner Baron Sergei Grigoryevich Stroganow and his wife Sofja Kirillowna nee Naryschkina (1708–1737), daughter of the Moscow governor Kirill Alexejewitsch Naryschkin . Stroganov received a good home upbringing, which ended with the Grand Tour . 1752–1757 he attended lectures at the universities of Geneva , Bologna and Paris . In 1758 he married Countess Anna Mikhailovna Voronzowa , only daughter and heiress of Chancellor Michael Larionowitsch Voronzow . In 1762 the spouses separated.

Stroganow served as a diplomat at the Russian Ambassador in Vienna Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk on May 29th jul. / June 9,  1761 greg. Stroganov received from Emperor Franz I the appointment of chamberlain and the hereditary count , whose use in Russia him on July 16 . / July 27,  1761 greg. was approved. After his wife's death in 1769, Stronganov married Princess Ekaterina Petrovna Trubetskaya , daughter of Senator Pyotr Nikititsch Trubetskoy , in 1771 . She had two children, Pawel and Sofija, and left her husband in 1779 because of the general and favorite Catherine II Ivan Nikolayevich Rimsky-Korsakov .

Stroganov dacha (AN Voronichin, 1797)

Stroganov was an important figure in the Russian Enlightenment . He was a member of the government commission for the creation of a new order and campaigned for the establishment of schools for the farmers. 1771–1779 he lived abroad. He held higher offices in Masonic lodges in Prussia and France . He participated in the creation of the Grand Orient de France . He was a member of the Neuf Sœurs Lodge . In 1776 he became an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and in 1783 a full member. He actively participated in the creation of the Academy's Russian dictionary. During his frequent travels, he collected paintings , prints , stones, medals and more than 60,000 coins . His picture gallery was considered the first in St. Petersburg after the imperial one. He became interested in chemistry and made experiments, so that he was suspected of being his wife and even Peter III. having poisoned.

From 1784 Stroganov was aristocratic marshal of the St. Petersburg governorate . He was very popular with his receptions and his hospitality. On the occasion of the visit of the Swedish King Gustav IV Adolf to St. Petersburg in 1796, Stroganov organized the first live chess in Russia at his country estate . In 1798 the Lord Chamberlain, Senator and Real Secret Council (2nd class ) Stroganov received the Russian count. From 1800 Stroganov was President of the Imperial Academy of Arts and Director of the Imperial Public Library . After the Council of State was founded in 1810, he was a member of it.

Stroganov was the owner of the Stroganow Palace in St. Petersburg and had the Stroganow dacha built in the park on the Chornana Retschka, which flows into the Neva . He initiated the construction of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg with the participation of the architect of the Stroganov family Andrei Nikiforovich Voronichin and in 1801 became chairman of the board of trustees for the construction of the cathedral.

Stroganov was buried in the Lazarus Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery .

Web links

Literature by and about Alexander Sergejewitsch Stroganow in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Jäger: Alexander S. Stroganov (1733-1811) . Böhlau Verlag , 2007.
  2. ↑ a b c d Строганов, граф Александр Сергеевич . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 12 , 1909, pp. 485-488 ( Wikisource [accessed August 4, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b c Chronos: Строганов Александр Сергеевич (accessed August 4, 2019).
  4. ↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: СТРО́ГАНОВ Александр Сергеевич (accessed August 4, 2019).
  5. ↑ Рудаков В. Е .: Строгановы или Строгоновы . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXXIa, 1901, pp. 803-805 ( Wikisource [accessed August 2, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Кузнецов С. О .: Пусть Франция поучит нас « танцовать ». Кн. 1 . St. Petersburg 2003, p. 335 .
  7. ↑ Karpov AJ : Шахматы: энциклопедический словарь . Советская энциклопедия, Moscow 1990, ISBN 5-85270-005-3 , p. 120 .
personal data
SURNAME Stroganov, Alexander Sergeyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Строганов, Александр Сергеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian landowner, art collector and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1811
Place of death St. Petersburg