Nadezhda Borisovna Trubetskaya

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Nadezhda Borisovna Trubetskaya

Princess Nadezhda Borisovna Trubezkaja born Nadezhda Borisovna Svyatopolk-Tschetwertinskaja , ( Russian Надежда Борисовна Трубецкая , maiden name Святополк-Четвертинская ; born October 20 . Jul / 1. November  1812 greg. , † February 23 jul. / 8. March  1909 greg. in Moscow ) was a Russian lady-in-waiting at the imperial court, philanthropist and patroness .

Life

Nadezhda Borisovna was the daughter of Boris Antonovich Tschetwertinski and his wife Nadezhda Fyodorovna nee Gagarina (1792-1883). One of her aunt Marija Antonovna Naryshkin , née Svjatopolk-Tschetwertinskaja, was Alexander II's mistress , while the other aunt Jeanetta Antonovna Tschetwertinskaya almost became the morganatic wife of Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich . The Tschetwertinski family spent a lot of time at the Filimonki family estate near Moscow . There the numerous relatives met with their acquaintances, so that Nadezhda Borisovna moved early in the higher society. She received an excellent home education and later attended a university course. In 1831 the Tschetwertinski family visited their relative Pyotr Vyazemsky at his Ostafjewo estate near Moscow, where they met Denis Davydov and Alexander Pushkin . Nadezhda Borisovna became lady-in-waiting to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna .

In 1834, Nadezhda Borisovna married Prince Alexei Ivanovich Trubezkoi (1806–1855), who was then Vice- Governor of the Vilna Governorate , Chamberlain and finally Real Councilor of State (fourth class ). They had two daughters and a son. The Trubetskois house in the center of Moscow was a cultural center with a brilliant literary salon. Nadezhda Trubezkaya was acquainted with Pyotr Vyazemsky, Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky and Nikolai Gogol .

In 1842 Trubetskaya joined the council for children's homes. In 1844, with the support of Stepan Nechayev , she organized a home for poor orphans of all origins, which then belonged to the Saint Olga children's homes founded by Nicholas II in 1895 on the occasion of the birth of his daughter Olga Nikolaevna . After her husband's death in 1855, Trubetskaya devoted himself entirely to charity. In the winter of 1859/1860, poor neighborhoods threatened to be flooded. Trubetskaya, her sister, her mother and some noblemen rented a house at the Kaluga Gate in Moscow for these residents. In the following year, with the active participation of Trubezkaya, the Brotherly Society for Providing the Poor with Housing was founded. Under Trubetskaya's chairmanship, the company had 3 million rubles in capital and 40 charities at the beginning of the 20th century . The patroness of the society was Maria Feodorovna , while Jelisaveta Fyodorown held the honorary chairmanship.

In 1865 Trubetskaya became the curator of the Arbat section of the Women's Curatorium for the Poor . In August of the same year she founded a small craft school for boys with the engineer Christian Christianowitsch Meien and the entrepreneur Pjotr ​​Ionowitsch Gubonin , in which tailors , shoemakers and bookbinders were trained. In 1866 the school was renamed Komissarow-Handwerksschule in honor of the cap maker Ossip Komissarow , who saved Alexander II during the assassination attempt by Dmitri Karakosov .

In 1869, at Trubezkaya's suggestion, the Women's Committee of the Moscow Department of the Russian Society for the Care of Wounded and Sick Soldiers was established, which later became the Russian Red Cross Society .

In 1877, at the beginning of the Russo-Turkish War , Trubezkaya organized a medical train and, despite her advanced age, went to the front as a compassionate sister . After a major fire in Orenburg in 1877, she organized material aid and went there herself.

In Trubetskaya's last years, Trubezkaya was a member of the board of trustees of the Xenija children's home she founded in the Moscow district of Khamovniki. For her work she received the Small Cross of the Order of Saint Catherine . When her son Alexei embezzled state funds, she sold all of her real estate assets, including her home in Moscow, to save her son from suicide. Since she had always used her financial fortune for charity, she was now destitute. Because of her merits, she was granted a pension with funds from the Brotherly Society and a rented apartment was made available in her previous home, which Sergei Shchukin had bought.

Web links

Commons : Trubetskoi family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Черейский Л.А .: СВЯТОПОЛК-ЧЕТВЕРТИНСКАЯ Надежда Борисовна (accessed August 13, 2017).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Молева, Н. М .: Москва - столица . Олма-Пресс, Moscow 2003, ISBN 978-5-224-04274-6 , p. 402-403 .
  3. ↑ Елена Лебедева: С верою, любовью и состраданием (accessed August 14, 2017).
  4. ↑ Rodovid: Надежда Борисовна Четвертинская (Святополк-Четвертинская, Трубецка) (accessed August 14, 2017).
  5. ↑ Комиссаровское техническое училище (accessed August 14, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Trubetskaya, Nadezhda Borisovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Трубецкая, Надежда Борисовна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian imperial lady-in-waiting, philanthropist and patron
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1812
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1909
Place of death Moscow