Dmitri Sergeyevich Arsenyev

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Admiral Dmitri Sergejewitsch Arsenjew (before 1904)

Dmitry Sergeyevich Arsenyev ( Russian Дмитрий Сергеевич Арсеньев ; born September 14, jul. / 26. September  1832 greg. In Moscow , † September 14 jul. / 27. September  1915 greg. In Tsarskoye Selo ) was a Russian-Baltic nobleman and admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy . He was a bearer of high military awards and a member of the Admiralty.

Military career

His military training began as a guard in the cadet corps of the Imperial Russian Navy. In 1848, at the age of 16, he was promoted to sea ​​cadet . He gained his first nautical experience on a frigate and a schooner . In 1850 he completed his officer training at the Naval War Academy NG Kuznetsov and was officially accepted into the Imperial Russian Navy. He received his baptism of fire in 1852 while on duty on the corvette Prinz von Warsaw in the Baltic and North Sea. From May to August 1853 he served on a frigate which was used between Saint Petersburg - Kronstadt and Peterhof . In 1853 he was promoted to lieutenant , transferred to the corvette Navarin and took part in the winter campaign of 1853-1854. In the Crimean War he commanded four gunboats of the Riga Flotilla , which operated in the western Daugava .

In 1855 he received his first ship command ; he commanded the steamer Fontanka, which secured shipping between Saint Petersburg - Kronstadt - Oranienbaum and Peterhof. In the same year he was appointed adjutant to the Minister of the Sea, Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797-1870). This was followed by other nautical uses: 1856 officer on watch on a corvette, 1857-1858 officer on watch on the Vepr screw corvette in the Baltic Sea and on the Black Sea. In 1859 he served in the flotilla and in 1860 was appointed adjutant to the Grand Duke and Admiral Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Romanow (1827-1892); in the same year he was given command of the gunboats of the "walrus class".

In October 1860 he took over the screw boat Walrus in London , with which he went on excursions through Africa and Asia between 1860 and 1862 . In 1862 he was appointed flag captain of Rear Admiral Popov's squadron and sailed with the Gaidamak to Japan , Alaska , San Francisco , and through the Panama Canal to New York . After his expedition trips on behalf of the Russian tsar , he received the order to build up the Vistula fleet; for this he was in Warsaw from 1862 . During the Polish uprising in 1863 he was assigned as personal advisor to Admiral Konstantin Nikolaijewitsch Romanov. From 1864 to 1885 he was teacher and curator of the Grand Dukes Sergei Alexandrowitsch Romanow (1857-1905) and Paul Alexandrowitsch Romanow (1860-1919), the sons of Tsar Alexander II (1818-1881). On April 29, 1877 Dmitri Sergejewitsch Arsenjew was promoted to Rear Admiral and was during the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878) personal wing adjutant of Grand Duke Sergej Alexandrovich.

In 1882 he became the head of the present Naval War Academy NG Kuznetsov, which he integrated into the navy and to which he awarded the academic degree. On February 26, 1887 he was Vice Admiral and at the same time admitted to the Admiralty Council . On his 50th anniversary in service, he was promoted to admiral on August 9, 1900 and in 1901 was appointed a member of the Russian State Council.

Awards

Works

Arsenyev left several essays:

  • Historical essay on the introduction to maritime shipping. Translated from English // Sea Collection, 1857, No. 6
  • Among the reasons for the size of the North American United States' maritime trade. (Extract from the work of Tocqueville). Translated from English // Sea Collection, 1858, No. 3
  • Vice Admiral Lord Edmund Lyons // Sea Collection, 1859, No. 2
  • Extract from the letter of the adjutant of the Grand Duke General Admiral Lieutenant Arsenyev (from the screw boat "Morzh" from Lisbon). // "Sea collection", 1862, № 4
  • Memoirs of the Adjutant General, Admiral Dmitry Sergeyevich Arsenyev. Started in the fall of 1899. SPb., 1907
  • From the notes of DS Arsenyev // Russian Archives, 1910, No. 10, 11
  • From the notes of the adjutant General Admiral Dmitry Sergeyevich Arsenyev. Travel diary of the Grand Dukes Sergey and Pavel Alexandrovich from July 24 to August 8, 1878 // Russian Archives, 1910, No. 6
  • From the memoirs of Admiral DS Arsenyev, adjutant general. 1876–1878 // Russian Archives, 1911, No. 12
  • Journey of the Persian Shah through Russia // Russian Archives, 1912, No. 2
  • From the memoirs of DS Arsenyev. Shah Muzafer-Edina's second trip to Russia in July 1900 // Russian Archives, 1912, No. 2
  • From the memoirs of Admiral DS Arsenyev, adjutant general. May 1900. Journey with the Persian Shah of Russia from Julfa to Alexandrovo // Russian Archives, 1912, No. 1
  • Letters from Dmitri Sergejewitsch Arsenjew, educator of the Grand Duke Sergej Alexandrovich, to Count Sergei Alekseevich Uvarov // "Power", 1995, no. 2
  • Biography of the Empress Maria Alexandrovna. 1838-1854. M. 2019 (Ed.): Kuchkovo field. ISBN 978-5-9950-0937-5 .

Origin and family

Arms of those of Arseniev (Courland)
His wife Nadeschda Arsenjewa (née Skaryatin)

DS Arsenjew came from the aristocratic family of the Arsenjews , he is the grandson of the former governor of Courland Nikolai Ivanovich Arsenjew (1760-1830). He was the son of the school inspector Sergei Nikolaijewitsch Arsenjew (1801-1860) and the NV Kamynin (1805-1855). From 1872 he was with the daughter of the governor of Novgorod , V. Ya. Skaryatin, the lady-in-waiting of Varvara Vladimirovna (1844–1906) married. Her children were Sergey (1873–1941), Ivan (1874–1919), Maria (1877–1882), Nadezhda (1885–1937).

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods, Görlitz o. J. Digitalisat

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch der Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: for the year ... compiled from official sources, Verlag Hof- und Staatsdr., 1882, original from the Austrian National Library , digitized July 10, 2015, books.google.de , P. 116, accessed on May 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ Morskoy Sbornik - the world`s oldest magazine for naval topics morskoysbornik.ru
  3. ↑ Russky Arkhiv was a Russian historical and literary monthly magazine
personal data
SURNAME Arsenyev, Dmitri Sergeyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Арсеньев, Дмитрий Сергеевич (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Baltic nobleman and admiral
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1915
Place of death Tsarskoye Selo