Dmitri Nikolayevich Sheremetev

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Count Dmitri Nikolayevich Sheremetev ( Orest Kiprensky , 1824)

Count Dmitri Nikolaevich Sheremetev ( Russian Граф Дмитрий Николаевич Шереметев ; born January 3 . Jul / 15. January  1803 greg. In St. Petersburg , † September 12 jul. / 24. September  1871 greg. In Kuskovo ) was a Russian Chamberlain and Benefactor .

Life

Dmitri Sheremetev, the only son of Count Nikolai Scheremetews and his wife Praskovya and grandchildren Count Pyotr Scheremetews was at the age of 5 years full orphan . The widowed Empress Maria Feodorovna took him on because of the friendship between Emperor Paul I and Dmitri's father and ensured a very good upbringing by private teachers. In 1820 Sheremetev became a chamber page . In 1823 he took up his service as Cornet in the Chevalier Guard . In 1825 he was involved in the suppression of the Decembrist uprising . In 1827 he became Porutschik , in 1830 staff assistant master and in 1831 wing adjutant . He was involved in the suppression of the Polish November Uprising and the capture of Warsaw after the Battle of Praga in 1831. In 1838 Sheremetev switched to civilian service as chamberlain and was appointed councilor in the Foreign Ministry . In 1843 he was promoted to Rittmeister . In 1856 he became court master of the imperial court.

Sheremetev was the curator of the hospice in Moscow , a monumental free hospital and poor hospital in the style of a Belvedere (now the Moscow Sklifossovsky Institute for Medical First Aid ) , which was donated by his father . He gave large sums of money from his inherited huge fortune to the maintenance of churches in Moscow and on his country estates, including the church in Alt-Pebalg . He donated to high schools and orphanages as well as to the State University of Saint Petersburg . During the 1840s he was the patron of St. Petersburg grammar schools and in 1843 became an honorary member of St. Petersburg University. He had the St. Lazarus Church of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery restored. Because of his high reputation, he was visited in 1856 at the Sheremetev manor Ostankino by Emperor Alexander II on the way to his coronation in Moscow. As the lord of 150,000 serf peasants and some 100,000 Dessjatinen land, Sheremetev used his income mainly for charitable purposes. When Alexander II's income decreased after the peasants' liberation in 1861, the first thing he did was to cut expenses for his personal life in order to be able to continue to spend the previous sums on his charity.

Sheremetev had been a member of the Free Economic Society since 1825 , an honorary member of the Imperial Moscow Society of Naturalists since 1833 and an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Society since 1846 . As a connoisseur and admirer of music , he maintained a choir for half a century in his St. Petersburg palace on the Fontanka , which his grandfather had built by his serf architect, F. A. Argunov . Sheremetev supported artists , singers and musicians . The large halls of this palace often served as studios for known and unknown painters .

Anna Sergejewna Sheremeteva ( Woldemar Hau )

Sheremetev was married to Anna Sergejewna Sheremetewa (1811-1849), daughter of Sergei Sheremetews , and after her death with Alexandra Grigoryevna Melnikowa (1825-1874). The government official and historian Count Sergei Sheremetev was his son from his first marriage. The composer and conductor Count Alexander Sheremetew was his son from his second marriage.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Шереметев, Граф Дмитрий Николаевич (accessed September 12, 2016).
  2. ↑ Русский биографический словарь: Шереметев, Дмитрий Николаевич. St. Petersburg, Moscow 1896–1918.
  3. ^ Repertory of the daily chronicle. Livonia . In: The domestic. A weekly for Liv, Esthian and Curland history, geography, statistics and literature ( Friedrich Georg von Bunge ) . tape 3 , no. 37 , 1838, pp. 607-608 .
  4. ↑ Sheremetev Palace (accessed September 9, 2016).
  5. ↑ Sheremetev Palace (Шереметовский дворец) (accessed September 11, 2016).
  6. ↑ С. Д. Шереметев: Графиня Анна Сергеевна Шереметева . Тип. Имп. Акад. наук, St. Petersburg 1889.
personal data
SURNAME Sheremetev, Dmitri Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Шереметев, Дмитрий Николаевич (Russian); Sheremetev, Dmitri Nikolaevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chamberlain and benefactor
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1871
Place of death Kuskovo