Fyodor Fyodorovich Trepov

Photograph by Fyodor Trepov, 1865

Fyodor Fjodorowitsch Trepow (the elder) ( Russian Фёдор Фёдорович Тре́пов ; * 1809 or 1812 ; † November 23rd ^July / December 5th, 1889 ^greg. In Kiev ) was a Russian general and statesman.

biography

He was an illegitimate son of the Real State Councilor Friedrich Wilhelm Stenger (1770-1832) and was raised in 1837 to the Russian nobility . He broke off an apprenticeship at the engineering school in St. Michael's Castle due to illness.

Trepow began his military career in 1831 by participating in the suppression of the November Uprising in Poland. He then commanded a cavalry regiment in Kiev. In 1860 he was appointed chief of the Warsaw Police. In the course of the Polish January uprising in 1863 he became police chief of Congress Poland . In Warsaw he was unpopular because of his brutality.

After Karakosov's failed assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander II , the latter appointed him mayor of Saint Petersburg in 1866 . He held this office until 1873 and was then governor of Saint Petersburg until 1878 . During this time he excelled in the fight against student unrest, as well as in the social revolutionary demonstration in front of the Petersburg Kazan Cathedral on December 6, 1876.

After the political prisoners Archip Bogolyubov had refused in July 1877 to take his hat to Trepov, the general ordered a flogging , which was also carried out. When Vera Sassulitsch heard about it, she gave ^Jul. / February 5, 1878 ^greg. fired a shot at Trepow from a revolver. She was arrested and summoned to court, but not sentenced. Trepow retired as a general of the cavalry in the same year .

Trepov spent the last years of his life in Kiev, where he distinguished himself as a patron of the Vydubychi monastery , founded in 1070 , and died in 1889. With his wife Vera Wassilijewna Lukaschewitsch he had nine children. His four sons, including Alexander , Dmitri and the same name Fyodor (the younger), embarked on political and military careers.

Fyodor Trepov received numerous Russian and foreign awards, including the Order of St. Anne and St. Vladimir , the Order of Alexander Nevsky , Virtuti Militari , the Prussian Red Eagle and Order of the Crown , the Austrian Leopold Medal , the Order of the Crown of Italy , the Spanish order of Charles III. , the Portuguese Order of Christ , the Serbian Order of Takovo , the Greek Order of Redeemer , the Ottoman Order of Mecidiye , the Persian Order of the Sun and Lion , the House Order of the Wendish Crown and the Order of the Württemberg Crown .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fyodor Trepow as a patron (Russian)

Web links

• People around FM Dostojewski (Russian)