Grigory Nikolaevich Trubetskoy

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Prince Grigori Nikolajewitsch Trubezkoi ( Russian Григо́рий Никола́евич Трубецко́й ; * September 5, July / September 17,  1873 greg .; † January 6, 1930 in Clamart ) was a Russian diplomat , politician and author .

Life

Grigori Trubezkoi from the princely family Trubezkoi was the son of Nikolai Petrovich Trubezkois and brother Sergei Nikolajewitsch Trubezkois and Evgeni Nikolajewitsch Trubezkois . He first attended high school in Kaluga and, after the family moved in 1887, to Moscow . He then studied at the Faculty of History and Philology at Moscow University .

After completing his studies in 1896, Trubetskoi took up service in the Asia Department of the Foreign Ministry . In 1897 he became consulate secretary in Constantinople , where he finally rose to become first embassy secretary .

In 1901 Trubetskoi married Marija Konstantinovna Butenjowa.

In 1905 Trubetskoi resigned from the civil service in order to be active in journalism in Moscow . Together with his brother Sergei Nikolajewitsch Trubezkoi he edited the socio - political Moscow weekly newspaper (1906–1910).

In 1912, Foreign Minister Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sasonow appointed Trubetskoi to head the Middle East Department of the Foreign Ministry. During a vacation he took over the office of Extraordinary Envoy and Plenipotentiary Minister Nikolaus Hartwigs in Serbia , who on June 27th July. / July 10,  1914 greg. died suddenly. He entered this new service after Austria-Hungary's ultimatum to Serbia on July 10th . / July 23, 1914 greg. during the July crisis . He was needed in the capital until mid-November 1914, and on November 25th, July. / December 8, 1914 greg. during the initial Serbian victories he took over the leadership of the embassy, ​​which had already evaded with the government to Nisch . In the following year, during the withdrawal and the fall of the Serbian army, the embassy was evacuated to the island of Corfu together with the government . On February 18th jul. / March 2, 1916 greg. transferred Trubetskoi to Italy together with the Serbian government . From there he returned to Petrograd via Paris , London and Stockholm . He held the post of ambassador to Serbia until 1917, he became a Real Councilor of State in 1916 , and until March 1917 he was Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Department of the Supreme Headquarters.    

After the October Revolution , Trubetskoy participated in the All-Russian Council of the Russian Orthodox Church until 1918 , and he was part of the illegal anti-Bolshevik Right Center in Moscow . At the end of December 1917, he went to Novocherkassk and joined the Don Citizens' Council of General Michail Wassiljewitsch Alexejew , who had founded the (white) volunteer army . With the Kuban withdrawal of the volunteer army , the civilians were no longer needed, so Trubetskoy returned to Moscow in early March 1918. In the summer of 1918 he drove to the German-occupied Ukraine on behalf of the Right Center and from there to Yekaterinodar , which was conquered by the whites . In the summer of 1919 he became chief of the secret service of the General Command of the Armed Forces of Southern Russia of General Anton Ivanovich Denikin . In the staff of the government of Baron Pyotr Nikolaevich Wrangel , he worked under Peter Struve , who was responsible for external relations, and represented him in his absence.

After the evacuation of Crimea in 1920, Trubezkoi first lived in Austria and then settled in France in Clamart near Paris . As a close friend of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich , he took part in his political plans for a union of Russians abroad (with the newspaper Resurrection under the editorial staff of NB Struves) and the fight against the Bolsheviks . He supported the Christian action of the Russian students and worked actively at the Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint-Serge in Paris. In 1927 he was one of the founding members of the society Die Ikone for the dissemination of knowledge of the icons , which exists to the present day. He published in the Russian press abroad, especially in the resurrection of NB Struves (1925–1927) and in the weekly papers Russia (1927–1928) and Russia and Slavism (1928–1934).

Works

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ BE Nolde: Far and near: Prince GN Trubezkoi . 1930 (Russian).
  2. ^ Richard Pipes : P. Struve Biography . Moscow University of Political Research, Moscow 2001 (Russian).
  3. ^ PE Kowalewski: The Russia Abroad . Librairie des Cinq Continents, Paris 1973, ISBN 2-85080-085-6 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Trubetskoi, Grigory Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Трубецко́й, Григо́рий Никола́евич (Russian spelling); Trubetskoi, Grigorii Nikolaevich; Trubeckoj, Grigory Nikolaevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat, politician and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1873
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1930
Place of death Clamart