Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovsky

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Kirill Razumovsky
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Кирило Григорович Розумовський
Transl. : Kyrylo Hryhorovyč Rozumovs'kyj
Transcr. : Kyrylo Hryhorowytsch Rosumowskyj
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Кирилл Григорьевич Разумовский
Transl .: Kirill Grigor'evič Razumovskij
Transcr .: Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovsky

Kirill Grigorjewitsch Rasumowski (also: von Rasumowski , and Rasumofsky * 18 March July / 29 March  1728 greg. In Lemeschi near Koselez , Hetmanat ; † 3 January July / 15 January  1803 greg. In Baturin , Russian Empire ) was a Russian count , general field marshal and the last hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks .

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Rasumovsky, who came from a Ukrainian Cossack family, studied at the Albertina in Koenigsberg , where he was under the supervision of Grigory Nikolayevich Teplow . In 1740 Kirill Razumovsky was raised to the rank of count and between 1746 and 1776 he was President of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .

From 1750 to 1764 he was the last hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. His main residence was in Baturyn, he owned other palaces in Saint Petersburg and Moscow . The hetmanate was subordinate to the Russian Empire and was dissolved by Catherine the Great in 1764 . In 1764 he was appointed field marshal.

Rasumowski had a large palace built in Baturyn , in which he spent his last decades from the 1770s. He was buried in the Church of the Resurrection in Baturyn.

Razumovsky was a co-founder of Moscow University .

family

His brother Alexei Grigoryevich Rasumovsky was a lover of the Russian Empress Elisabeth, and his son Andrei became a well-known diplomat, music patron and art collector.

Web links

Commons : Kirill Grigorjewitsch Rasumowski  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "von Rasumowski" [1]
  2. ↑ "Rasumofsky" [2]
  3. ↑ Entry on Rozumovsky, Kyrylo in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 19, 2019
  4. ↑ Entry on Kyrylo Hryhorowytsch Rosumowskyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 19, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Entry on Kyrylo Rosumowskyj in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 19, 2019 (Ukrainian)
  6. ^ Razumovsky biography , on Chronos ; accessed on February 21, 2019 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Razumovsky, Kirill Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Разумовский, Кирилл Григорьевич (Russian); Razumovskij, Kirill Grigor'evič (scientific transliteration of Russian); Rasumovsky, Kirill Grigoryevich; Розумовський, Кирило Григорович (Ukrainian); Rozumovs'kyj, Kyrylo Hryhorovyč (scientific transliteration of Ukrainian); Rosumowskyj, Kyrylo Hryhorowytsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian count and general
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemeschi near Koselez , Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1803
Place of death Baturyn , Ukraine