Leonti Wassiljewitsch Dubelt

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Leonti Wassiljewitsch Dubelt, portrayed by Alexei Tyranow around 1843

Leonti Vasilyevich Dubelt ( Russian Леонтий Васильевич Дубельт Leonty Vasil'evič Dubel't ; * 1792 ; † 9. May 1862 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian statesman, General of Cavalry and I. Nicholas 1835-1856 Chief of the Security Police gendarme corps and 1839 –1856 chief of the secret police .

Life

Leonti, son of the hussar Wassili Ivanovich Dubelt and his wife Maria Grigoryevna Schperter, was trained at the Petersburg Mining Academy from 1801 to the beginning of 1807 and then joined the Pleskau infantry regiment as an ensign . During the Fourth Coalition War at the headquarters in Guttstadt , deployed in Wolfsdorf and Deppen, he became a lieutenant at the end of 1807 . During the Patriotic War he stood near Smolensk , was wounded near Borodino , fought near Tarutino and Malojaroslavz and took part in the Sixth Coalition War. He served as an adjutant to Dmitri Dochturow and Nikolai Rajewski and received the order Pour le Mérite in 1814 . From 1816 staff officer at the headquarters near Rajewski in Kiev , he became a lieutenant colonel on September 15, 1817 and from 1821 commanded the Saslavl infantry regiment.

In 1822, after the Freemasons were banned in Russia, Leonti Dubelt admitted membership of lodges in Hamburg ("Emanuel zur Maienblume"), Saint Petersburg (" Astreia "), Kiev ("United Slavs") and Białystok ("Golden Ring") in writing . After December 14, 1825 suspected of ties to the Decembrists - he was at least known to Sergei Volkonsky and Michail Orlov - he was exonerated in 1826 by the investigative committee.

After differences with his division commander Pyotr Scheltuchin, Leonti Dubelt resigned from military service on December 29, 1828 and settled in Ryskino in the Tver Governorate on the estate of his wife Anna Nikolayevna. On February 1, 1830, Dubelt became a staff officer in the Tver Gendarme Corps . A relative of his wife had spoken to Alexander von Benckendorff for Dubelt. In 1830 Dubelt was made a colonel , knighted on October 3, 1831, and on July 1, 1835 as major general in the gendarme corps .

From April 1, 1838 to December 5, 1844, Leonti Dubelt belonged to the Imperial Suite and became Lieutenant General . From March 1839 to August 1856 he excelled as head of the secret police in the areas of censorship , persecution of the Raskolniki and tracking down political secret societies. For example, he arranged for the surveillance of Pushkin , Nekrasov and the Slavophiles .

Some of the proceedings in which Dubelt personally participated:

Mock execution of Petraschewzen on December 22, 1849 on Semyonovsky Square in Petersburg. Draftsman: B. Pokrowski

From 1852 to 1856 Dubelt was Deputy Minister of the Interior. On the occasion of his accession to the throne, Alexander II appointed the henchman as general of the cavalry on August 26, 1856.

Leonti Dubelt found his final resting place in the Smolensk cemetery in Petersburg next to his wife Anna Nikolajewna.

family

Dubelt married Anna Nikolajewna Perskoi (1800-1853) in 1818, the niece of Admiral Nikolai Mordwinow . The couple had two sons - Nikolai (1819–1874) and Michail (1822–1900). Both made it to the rank of lieutenant general. Michail was married to Alexander Pushkin's daughter Natalja (1836–1913) from 1853 to 1863.

Honors

Trivia

For most Petersburg residents, Leonti Dubelt is said to have come across as a bogeyman.

Web links

  • Entry at hrono.ru (Russian)
  • Entry in museum.ru (Russian)
  • Entry at dic.academic.ru (Russian)

annotation

  1. Dubelt's direct superior intelligence officers, the Supreme Chiefs of the Third Department , were Alexander von Benckendorff and, from 1845, Alexei Orlow .

Individual evidence

  1. idiots at genwiki.genealogy.
  2. Russian Лавиния Жадимировская, see for example Russian Prince Sergei Trubezkoi and Lawinija Schadimirowskaja