Ivan Matveevich Tolstoy

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Ivan Matveevich Tolstoy

Ivan Matveevich Tolstoy ( Russian Иван Матвеевич Толстой ; * March 29th July / April 10th  1806 greg .; † July 21st July / October 3,  1867 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian diplomat and post minister .

Life

Tolstoy was the son of Matwei Fyodorowitsch Tolstoy (1772-1815) and his wife Praskowja Mikhailovna Golenishcheva-Kutusowa (1777-1844), daughter of General Prince Mikhail Kutusow .

Tolstoy began serving in the Foreign Affairs Office in 1822. In 1834 he was appointed chamberlain . In 1838 he accompanied Crown Prince Alexander II on his trip abroad. In 1839 he became stable master . In 1849 he took over the management of the crown prince's court and in 1855 that of the highest court.

In 1856, Tolstoy was appointed senior steward senator and deputy minister for foreign affairs. In 1861 he became a member of the State Council . In 1863 he became director of the Post Department of the Interior Ministry, succeeding Fyodor Prjanischnikov . In 1865 he finally became Minister of Post and Telegraphy and remained so until his death. In 1866 he received the title of count . He did not yet succeed in merging the post and telegraph services (this only happened in 1884 under the reign of Alexander III , which was then indicated by lightning and post horn on Russian postage stamps ). Tolstoy's successor as Minister of Post and Telegraph was Alexander Timashev .

Tolstoy was a talented singer. In the 1830s he sang a lot with Henriette Sontag in Paris . Tolstoy had 1,844 Elizaveta Vasilyevna Tulinowa (1826-1870), daughter of Voronezh nobility Marshal Vasily Vasilyevich Tulinow, married, with whom he had four children. Ivan Ivanovich became a minister, numismatist and archaeologist , while Dmitri Ivanovich became the last director of the Imperial Hermitage . Tolstoy's brothers were the general and director of the Tschesmensker Palais Nikolai Matwejewitsch Tolstoy and the music critic and composer Theophil Matwejewitsch Tolstoy .

Tolstoy was buried in the St. Petersburg Novodevichy Cemetery.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Tolstoy family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b В. И. Саитов: Петербургский некрополь, Т.  4 . Типография М. М. Стасюлевича, St. Petersburg 1913, p. 270 ( Толстой, граф Иван Матвеевич, accessed August 8, 2017).
  2. ^ A b c Ian W. Roberts: 19th Century Russian Postal Ministers and Officials . In: Journal of the Rossica Society of Russian Philately . No. 108 , 1986, pp. 75-78 ( [1] accessed July 27, 2017).
  3. ^ Dorothea von Ficquelmont : Дневник 1829–1837. Весь пушкинский Петербург . Минувшее, Moscow 2009.
  4. ↑ Архив села Михайловского. Т.2 . 1st edition. St. Petersburg 1902, p. 39 .
personal data
SURNAME Tolstoy, Ivan Matveyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Толстой, Иван Матвеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian diplomat and post minister
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1806
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1867
Place of death St. Petersburg