Alexei Ivanovich Vasilyev

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Alexei Iwanowitsch Wassiljew ( WL Borowikowski , 1800, Tretyakov Gallery )

Alexei Ivanovich Vasiliev ( Russian Алексей Иванович Васильев * February 28 jul. / 11. March  1742 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † August 15 jul. / 27. August  1807 greg. ) Was a Russian civil servant, politician and Minister of Finance .

Life

Vasilyev came from a noble family. The grandfather was senior secretary of the Admiralty College . Ivan Wassiljewitsch Wassiljew's father was secretary of the Senate . Vasilyev graduated from Junker College at the Senate Chancellery and was in 1754 secretary in the Senate Chancellery.

In 1762 Vasilyev was secretary of the General Procurator Alexander Ivanovich Glebow and then his successor Alexander Alexejewitsch Vyazemsky . In 1764 he became managing director of the Vyazemskis law firm.

In 1770 Vasilyev became senior secretary of the 3rd Department of the Senate and worked on the commission for the establishment of the state pay system, the establishment of the treasury and the reform of the expedition (ie administration) of state revenues. With the measures taken, state affairs were reorganized. In 1773 he became senior secretary of the State Revenue Expedition. In 1781 he was appointed Real Councilor of State (4th class ) and led the new expedition for the revision of state finances, to which the wine , salt and mining administrations were soon attached. When the General Procuror Vyazemsky fell ill, Vasilyev reported to the Empress Catherine II about the financial situation. In 1791 he became a Privy Councilor (3rd class).

In 1793, Vasilyev became chief director of the Medical College and senator. He succeeded in expanding the activities of the college without increasing costs, reforming the administrative structure and improving the material basis of the medical sector. He reformed the medicine and surgery schools in St. Petersburg and Moscow and converted them into academies.

After Paul I came to power , Vasilyev became state treasurer in November 1796. In the same year he became an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences and in 1797 Real Privy Councilor (2nd class) and baron . He improved the accounts, which his predecessors had left in an extremely unsatisfactory state. He developed a scheme for minting copper coins in order to increase the rate of Russian assignats . After a conflict with Paul I's favorite Ivan Pavlovich Kutaisov , Vasilyev was dismissed from all his offices in November 1800.

2-ruble silver commemorative coin of the Rossii Bank for Vasilyev's 270th birthday in 2012

After Alexander I came to power , Vasilyev was reinstated in all his offices in March 1801. In the same year he became a member of the Russian Academy (merged with the Academy of Sciences in 1841), and he received the hereditary count . After the creation of the ministries, he was appointed Minister of Finance in 1802. In 1802 he wrote a statute for the state forests, which led to improved forest management. He reduced the national debt by repaying a loan of 3.5 million guilders (1802) and a loan from the Republic of Genoa of 3 million piasters (1804-1808). He covered the budget deficit by issuing new assignats and through regular loans from state banks. In 1806 the Mining Regulations, developed under his direct direction, became law, which in part introduced the principle of freedom from the mountains and which was the basis for mining legislation for many decades. He also led the development of the new tax lease law , which, among other things, limited the number of bars and forbade tax farmers to run bars themselves.

Wassiljew was married to Vyazemskis relatives Varwara Sergejewna née Urussowa (1751-1831) and had two daughters: Ekaterina (1781-1860), who married the general of the infantry Prince Sergei Nikolayevich Dolgorukov , and Marija (1784-1829), who was the general of the Cavalry Count Wassili Wassiljewitsch Orlov-Denisov married.

Vasiliev's siblings were Anna (1741-1816), who married Alexander Fyodorowitsch Golubzow (1735-1796) and was mother Fyodor Alexandrowitsch Golubzows , Andrei (1743-1788) and Ivan (1763-1802).

Vasilyev was buried in the Lazarus cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky monastery . Vasilyev's successor was his nephew Fyodor Alexandrowitsch Golubzow, who received Vasilyev's title because of the lack of male descendants.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Vasiliev family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Государственное управление в России в портретах: Алексей Иванович Васильев (accessed August 14, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c Chronos: Васильев Алексей Иванович (accessed August 14, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Sudeikin WT : Васильев (Алексей Иванович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . Va, 1892, p. 607 ( Wikisource [accessed August 14, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Большая российская энциклопедия: ВАСИ́ЛЬЕВ Алексей Иванович (accessed August 14, 2019).
  5. ↑ Карабанов П. Ф .: Списки замечательных лиц русских . Унив. тип., Moscow 1860.
  6. ↑ Bank Rossii: Государственный деятель А.И. Васильев - 270-летие со дня рождения (accessed August 13, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Wassiljew, Alexei Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Васильев, Алексей Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian state official, politician and finance minister
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1807
Place of death St. Petersburg