Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Daschkov

Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Daschkov

Dmitry Vasilyevich Daschkow ( Russian Дмитрий Васильевич Дашков * December 25, 1788 ^{. Jul} / 5. January  1789 ^greg. In Moscow , † November 26 ^jul. / 8. December  1839 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian minister and man of letters .

Life

Daschkow was the son of the Ryazan landlord and aristocratic marshal of Ujesd Spassk Wassili Andrejewitsch Daschkow. Despite the comparatively low wealth of his parents, Daschkov received a good domestic upbringing. He then graduated from the nobility boarding school at Moscow University with two silver medals and entry on the boarding school's marble tablet. He began his literary activity with translations from French . In 1801 he entered the service of the Moscow Archives of the College of Foreign Affairs as a Junker , where he became friends with Dmitry Bludov . In 1804 he wrote in a magazine about the sciences and arts and teaching at universities in Germany. Daschkov became known for his active participation in the dispute about the old and the new way of writing. In 1810 he analyzed Alexander Shishkov's translation of two articles by Jean-François de La Harpe published in 1808 , and in 1811 Daschkov showed that some of Shishkov's examples of the beauty of the Slavic language from old books were literal translations from Greek . Ivan Dmitrijew entrusted Dashkov with the editing of a work by Vasily Zhukovsky , on which Dashkov had written comments. In 1810 Daschkov was elected to the St. Petersburg Society of Lovers of Literature, Science and Art . He published various essays and reviews in their Peterburgski Westnik , for example on the story of Suvorov by Jegor Fuchs and anecdotes by Voltaire .

When Ivan Dmitriev became Minister of Justice in 1810, Daschkov joined the Ministry of Justice in St. Petersburg. In 1812 Daschkov was expelled from the St. Petersburg Society of Friends of Literature, Science and Art, of which he was temporarily chairman, after Daschkov had ironically praised Count Dmitri Chwostov's works when he was accepted. Together with Bludow and Zhukovsky he founded the literary society Arsamas . In 1815 Daschkow was one of the sharpest critics of the theater writer Prince Alexander Schachowski . In 1816, Vasily Pushkin , Alexander Pushkin's uncle , was accepted into the Arsamas.

1818 Dashkov was the rank of the State Council (V. ranking class at the Russian Embassy in) the Second consultant Konstantin Opel under Count Ioannis Kapodistrias appointed. There he studied the Greek language and read and translated old manuscripts in the Seraglio library and on a trip to Greece . In 1820 he was recalled there to review the situation of the Russian consulates in the Levant on behalf of the minister . In 1822 he was appointed chargé d'affaires at the Embassy in Constantinople. In 1823 he became a member of the legislative commission with dismissal from the foreign service.

After Nikolaus I was enthroned in 1825, Daschkov quickly made a career thanks to Bludov's friendship. In 1826 he received the title of State Secretary and was appointed Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs. In 1828 he received the Order of St. Anne I Class and followed Nicholas I to the army headquarters in the Russo-Turkish War . In 1829 he was appointed Vice Minister for Justice with the rank of a privy councilor (third class). In the same year he represented the absent Bludow as chief executive of the spiritual affairs of the foreign denominations. After Prince Alexei Dolgorukov , the managing director of the Ministry of Justice, was dismissed in 1829 , Daschkov joined the management of the Ministry of Justice. In 1832 he became Minister of Justice.

In 1831 Daschkow married Jelisaweta Wassiljewna Paschkowa (1809–1890), the daughter of the major general and chief hunter Vasily Paschkow , with whom he had four children. In 1835 the couple acquired the Blagoweschensk copper works near Ufa .

In 1839 Daschkow became a real privy councilor (second rank), member of the State Council , chairman of the legislative department and head of the second department of the Imperial Majesty's chancellery (succeeding Mikhail Speranski ), which was responsible for the Russian code . He participated in the creation of the first Russian code of law, he organized the archiving in the Moscow archives, and he worked on peasant serfdom (1826–1835).

Daschkov was buried in the St. Petersburg Lazarus Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery .

Honors

• Order of St. Vladimir IV Class
• Order of St. Vladimir II class
• Russian Order of Saint Anne I Class (1828)
• Imperial-Royal Order of the White Eagle (1831)
• Alexander Nevsky Order (1832)
• Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Дашков Дмитрий Васильевич (accessed August 7, 2017).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Русский биографический словарь: Дашков, Дмитрий Васильевич.
3. ↑ Brockhaus-Efron : Дашков (Дмитрий Васильеви).
4. ↑ Большая биографическая энциклопедия: Дашков, Дмитрий Васильевич (accessed August 7, 2017).
5. ↑ Благовещенский завод ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on August 7, 2017). 
6. ↑ RAN: Дашков Дмитрий Васильевич (accessed August 7, 2017).