Grigory Alexandrovich Stroganov

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Baron Grigori Alexandrovich Stroganow ( Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun )

Baron (from 1826 Count) Grigori Alexandrowitsch Stroganow ( Russian Григорий Александрович Строганов ; * September 13th July / September 24th  1770 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † January 7th July / January 19,  1857 greg. Ibid) was a Russian diplomat .

Life

Stroganow was the only son of Baron Alexander Nikolajewitsch Stroganow (1740–1789) and his wife Jelisaveta Alexandrovna Sagrjaschkaja (1745–1831) , who came from the rich merchant family Stroganow . His older sister Yekaterina married the chief master of ceremonies Ivan Alexandrovich Naryschkin , while his younger sister Yelisaveta married the steel baron Nikolai Nikititsch Demidow .

Stroganov received a careful home education under the direction of mathematician (and future MP in the National Convention ) Charles-Gilbert Romme . In 1787 Stroganov went on the Grand Tour with his cousin Pawel Alexandrowitsch Stroganow and his teacher Romme to complete his education. From 1787 to 1788 he stayed in Geneva and studied chemistry , physics and astronomy at the University of Geneva . In 1789 he settled in Paris . When he received news of his father's death there in April 1789, he immediately returned to St. Petersburg. Paul I appointed him Real Chamberlain (VI. Rank class ) in 1796 and appointed him to the Berg-Kollegium , which directed the coal and steel industry .

In 1804, Stroganov was sent to Madrid as an ambassador by Alexander I. In 1808 Stroganov left Madrid without authorization because of the French occupation of Spain . His successor was Nikolai Grigoryevich Repnin-Volkonsky . In 1812 Stroganov was appointed envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary minister in Sweden to succeed Paul von Nicolays . In 1816 Stroganow was replaced in Sweden by Jan Pieter van Suchtelen and sent to Constantinople as head of the Russian mission . In 1821 he left Constantinople with the entire Russian mission as a sign of protest against the Ottoman embargo for goods on ships under the Russian flag and the ban on Greek shipping through the straits after the start of the Greek Revolution . In 1821 Stroganov was appointed to the Real Privy Council (2nd class). His successor in Constantinople was Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Daschkow in 1822 . In 1822 Stroganov took a leave of absence and lived abroad.

In 1826 Stroganov was a member of the Supreme Court in the trial against the Decembrists . On the day of the coronation of Nicholas I (August 22 jul. / 3. September  1826 greg. ) Received the title of Count Stroganov. In 1827 he became a member of the State Council . In 1838 he was the Russian representative at the coronation of Queen Victoria . He later became an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences .

Stroganov was great-uncle and then guardian of the widowed Natalja Pushkina and her children (1837-1844) after her husband Alexander Pushkin was killed in a duel . Stroganov helped to settle the difficult financial situation of the family and persuaded the St. Petersburg Metropolitan Serafim Glagolewski to give a Christian funeral for Pushkin, whose death in a duel was considered a suicide and excluded a Christian burial.

Stroganov spent most of the last years of his life abroad to have his eye disease treated. He died completely blind. He was buried in the Lazarus Church of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg.

Stroganow was married to Anna Sergejewna nee Princess Trubezkow (1765-1824), with whom he had six sons and two daughters. The second son, Sergei , became an officer and patron, while the third son, Alexander, became a state official and interior minister. In his second marriage, Stroganow married the Portuguese noblewoman Juliana de Almeida e Oyenhausen (1782–1864), the mother of his illegitimate daughter Idalija (1807–1889).

Honors

Web links

Commons : Grigory Alexandrovich Stroganow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Рудаков В. Е .: Строгановы или Строгоновы . In: Brockhaus-Efron . XXXIa, 1901, pp. 803-805 ( Wikisource [accessed January 3, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b c La famille Stroganov, de la Sibérie aux marches du trône des tsars ou le récit d'une prodigieuse ascension (accessed on January 5, 2018).
  3. ↑ a b c Строганов Григорий Александрович (accessed January 5, 2018).
  4. ↑ Count Sergei Stroganov (accessed January 4, 2018).
  5. ↑ Купцов И. В .: Род Строгановых (accessed January 3, 2018).
personal data
SURNAME Stroganov, Grigory Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Строганов, Григорий Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 1857
Place of death St. Petersburg