Boris Alexandrovich Vasilchikov
Boris Alexandrowitsch Wassiltschikow ( Russian Борис Александрович Васильчиков ; born May 19, 1860 in Vybiti ; † May 13, 1931 in Menton ) was a Russian prince , politician , real secret council , author and memoir writer . From 1900 to 1903 he was governor of Pskov .
Life
At the age of 4 he lost his mother, who died in childbed during another birth . His father died in 1881, so that at the age of 21 he inherited a great deal, but had not yet completed any training. After his law degree at the Imperial College of Law in St. Petersburg he settled on his estate in Veliky down at Novgorod. From 1884 to 1890 he was elected to the district government in Staraya Russa Rajon and from 1890 to 1902 he was provincial head of Novgorod. Later he was elected an honorary citizen of the city of Staraya Russa and held the office of honorary judge . On his estate Wybiti he worked on progressive methods of agriculture , with poultry farming developing particularly well. In 1896 he was appointed a real privy councilor and assumed the rank of stable master . From 1900 to 1903 he was governor of the Pskov governorate and was elected an honorary citizen for his services.
When the Russo-Japanese War broke out in February 1904 , he was appointed Chief Representative of the Russian Red Cross Society. From October 1904 to November 1905 he was in Manchuria with the Imperial Russian Army ; he was supported in the work of the Russian Red Cross by his wife, who had come with him to the war front . In 1906 he was appointed chairman of the Russian Red Cross Society. From July 1906 to March 1908 he was department head for land management and agriculture in the government of Prime Minister Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin and campaigned for agricultural reforms. In the years 1911–1917 he headed the group of "non-party associations" in the council.
"Rasputin" affair
His wife Sophie Nikolajewna Menschirskaja, who served as a lady-in-waiting at the tsar's court , wrote a letter to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna in 1916 , in which she asked the Empress to remove Rasputin from the court. The Empress then felt compelled to remove the lady-in-waiting from her position and asked her to leave the court, and she also denounced Boris Alexandrovich Wassiltschikow to Nicholas II; Boris Alexandrovich then resigned his offices and retired with his wife to the family seat in Vybiti.
After the revolution
After the February Revolution in 1917 Boris Alexandrovich returned to Saint Petersburg, in 1918 he was arrested, taken to the Peter and Paul Fortress and held in a solitary cell . After his release he emigrated to Great Britain and in 1920 he moved to France . He was actively involved in the establishment of the Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint-Serge and wrote his memoirs, which were published in 2003. In 1899 he published in Novgorod the essay "On the education of noble youth" (О воспитании дворянского юношества. Новгород, 1899). He died on May 13, 1931 and was buried with his wife in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois .
Orders and decorations
In recognition of his services, he was awarded a letter of thanks in 1901 and 1908 and the "Highest Favor of His Imperial Majesty".
1. Russian Order
- 1899 Order of Saint Stanislaus , 1st class
- 1902 Order of Anna , 1st class
- 1907 Imperial-Royal Order of the White Eagle
- 1913 Alexander Nevsky Order
2. Foreign:
- 1907 Prussian Order of the Red Eagle , 1st class
- 1908 Italian Order of the Saints of Mauritius and Lazarus , 1st class
Origin and family
Knes Boris Alexandrowitsch Wassiltschikow came from the primeval Russian boyar family Wassiltschikow , who were raised to the princely nobility in 1839 . His parents were Alexander Illarionowitsch Wassiltschikow (1818-1881) and Eugenia Ivanovna Senjawin (1829-1862). Boris Alexandrowitsch married Princess Sophie Nikolajewna Mescherski (* 1867, † 1942 in Paris ); they had no offspring.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tsarskoje Selo, January 3, 1916: "Oh, Boris Vasilchikov has changed for the worse, and so have some others - oh, they should feel your power, one has to be strict ..."; In: Joachim Kühn, Die last Zarin, your letters to Nikolaus II. And your diary sheets from 1914 until the murder ; Ullstein Verlag , Berlin , 1922, third edition, ISBN 5883996922 , 9785883996923, p. 142 [1]
- ↑ Князь Борис Васильчиков. Воспоминания «Нашим наследием» [2]
- ↑ People honored with the "highest favor of his majesty" meant for them the granting of privileges and shortened deadlines for promotions . See: ru: Высочайшее благоволение
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wassiltschikow, Boris Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Васильчиков, Борис Александрович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian prince, state councilor and governor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wybiti |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1931 |
| Place of death | Menton |