Michael Küchelbecker

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Michael Küchelbecker

Michael Karlovich Kuchelbecker ( Russian Михаил Карлович Кюхельбекер ., Scientific transliteration Mikhail Karlovič Kjuchel'beker *  1798 in the Governorate of Estonia , † 1859 in Barguzin , Region Transbaikalien ) was a Russian Guard lieutenant Explorer and Dekabrist .

Life

lieutenant

Michael, the son of Karl Heinrich Küchelbecker (December 28, 1748 to March 6, 1809) from Bautzen and his wife Justina Elisabeth von Lohmann (March 20, 1757 to March 26, 1841) from Segewold , visited St. Petersburg from 1811 to 1815 Naval Cadet Academy and from June 7, 1813 to February 2, 1814 was a guard in the Imperial Russian Navy . On February 2, 1814, he joined the Guard of the Imperial Russian Navy and on June 21, 1815 was a Mitschman . In 1819 he was on board the brig Nowaya Zemlya under Lieutenant Andrei Lasarew participant in the north polar expedition to the island of the same name . On February 2, 1820, he became a lieutenant. 1821-1824 he took part on board the Sloop Apollon under Lieutenant Irinarch Tulubjew in a Kamchatka expedition followed by a circumnavigation of the world and received - back home - the Order of St. Vladimir .

Decembrist

Nikolai Petrowitsch Repin around 1829: Ivan Jakuschkin , Pawel Bobrishchev-Pushkin and Michael Küchelbecker in the courtyard of the Ostrog Tschita.

Michael Küchelbecker was not a member of the Decabrist secret society, but he took part in the officers' uprising on December 14, 1825 on the St. Petersburg Senate Square and was incarcerated in the Peter and Paul Fortress in 1826 . Sentenced to eight years in katorga on July 10, the sentence was reduced to five years on August 22. In the meantime - on July 22, 1826 - he was exiled to Kexholm Fortress and finally to Siberia on February 5, 1827 from the Peter and Paul Fortress . On March 22nd, he arrived at the Ostrog Chita .

In September 1830 he was taken to the Katorga Peter hut . In this "convict academy" he got time for historical, geographical and economic studies. He had fellow prisoner Sergei Kriwzow form the singing voice and also tried his hand at gardening, farmer and tailor.

Settlers

On July 10, 1831, Michael Küchelbecker was forcibly resettled in Barguzin and married the petty bourgeois Anna Stepanowna Tokarewa there on June 3, 1834 . The couple had five daughters - Justina (* 1836), Julia (1840–1905), Katharina (* 1846), Anna (* 1852) and Anastasia (1857–1860). Michael Küchelbecker continued to experiment as a farmer; wanted to cultivate crops east of the Baikal . Because he gave free medical care to the villagers of Barguzin, his reputation rose. Michael Küchelbecker also did something free of charge for the education of the residents. In the field of educational training, he cooperated with the Decembrist Ivan Jakuschkin . From January 20, 1836, his brother Wilhelm - also exiled to Siberia - supported him in his medical and educational aid organization. Michael Küchelbecker continued his geographic studies; wrote a brief summary of Transbaikalia .

Alexander II gave Michael Küchelbecker back the nobility privileges on August 26, 1856. Mainly for financial reasons, the rehabilitated man stayed in Siberia. From December 12, 1858, Michael Küchelbecker was no longer supervised by the police. Most recently he worked for companies that mined gold in Siberia and tried to obtain mining rights in Eastern Siberia.

siblings

  • Brother: Wilhelm
  • Sisters
    • Justina (July 12, 1786 to July 15, 1871)
    • Julia (February 1, 1795 to July 9, 1869)

Web links

Commons : Michael Küchelbecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry at hrono.ru/biograf (Russian)
  • Entry in Irkutsk Wikipedia (Russian)
  • Entry at ru.rodovid.org (Russian)
  • Entry at m-necropol.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Морской кадетский корпус
  2. ↑ Russian Новая Земля (бриг, 1819)
  3. ↑ Russian Лазарев, Андрей Петрович
  4. ↑ Russian Иринарх Степанович Тулубьев
  5. ↑ Russian circumnavigation of the world 1821–1824
  6. ↑ Russian Репин Николай Петрович
  7. ↑ Russian Читинский острог
  8. ↑ Russian Кривцов, Сергей Иванович
  9. ↑ Russian Анна Степановна Токарева
  10. ↑ Russian Краткий очерк Забайкальского края
personal data
SURNAME Küchelbecker, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кюхельбекер, Михаил Карлович (Cyrillic); Küchelbecker, Michael Karlowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian guard lieutenant, explorer and Decembrist
DATE OF BIRTH 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Estonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH 1859
Place of death Barguzin , Transbaikalia Region