Nikolai Petrovich Trubetskoy

Nikolai Trubetskoy

Prince Nikolai Petrovich Trubetskoi ( Russian: Николай Петрович Трубецкой ; * 1828 at the Akhtyrka family estate near Sergijew Posad ; † 1900 in the village of Menshovo, today the Podolsk district ) was a Russian musicologist and patron .

Life

Trubetskoi belonged to the princely family Trubetskoi . He was the fourth son of General Pyotr Ivanovich Trubezkoi, grandson of General Field Marshal Prince Ludwig Adolf Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein , third cousin of the Decembrist leader Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy , brother of Chamberlain Alexander Petrovich Trubetskoy and uncle of the sculptor Paolo Troubetzkoy . He spent his childhood in the family home in Moscow and underwent military academy training as a member of the St. Petersburg Page Corps. In 1847 he was promoted from chamber page to college secretary. In 1849 he entered his service asEnsign of Preobrazhentsi Life Guards regiment , which he in 1856 as captain left.

In the 1850s, Trubetskoi corresponded with Alexander Ivanovich's hearts , according to the memories of Count Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sheremetev , whose ideas impressed him greatly. For many years he was friends with the musician Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein and worked with him. In particular, in 1866 they founded the Moscow Conservatory .

In 1871, after the death of his father, Trubetskoi inherited the Akhtyrka family estate with the magnificent mansion near Sergiev Posad , built in 1825 , but sold it in 1879 in order to free his frivolous brother from the guilty prison.

In 1876 Trubetskoi resigned from the board of directors of the Moscow Conservatory to take up his new post as vice-governor of the Kaluga governorate , which he held until 1885. For this he was elected an honorary member of the Moscow Department of the Russian Music Society because of his services to the promotion of music in Russia, which the President of the Music Society Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Romanov agreed to. After returning to Moscow, he joined the board of directors of the Moscow department of the Russian Music Society . At court he served as court master . He received his farewell with the high rank of a Real Secret Council corresponding to the General en Chef .

Trubezkoi was married to Countess Lyubow Wassiljewna Orlowa-Denisova (1828-1860), daughter of the cavalry general Count Wassili Wassiljewitsch Orlow-Denissow , with whom he had three children, the two daughters Sofija (1854-1936) and Marija ( 1860–1926) and their son Pyotr (1858–1911), who held the highest administrative positions after studying law and, as the owner of large estates in southern Russia and an important winemaker, was one of the founders of the Committee for Viticulture and Winemaking of the Imperial Moscow Agricultural Society.

In his second marriage Trubetskoi was married to the Princess Sofja Alexejewna Lopuchina (1841-1901), daughter of the Lermontov friend Prince Alexei Alexandrowitsch Lopuchin (1813-1872), with whom Trubezkoi had nine children, the daughters Antonina (1864-1901), Jelisaveta (1865–1935), Olga (1867–1947), Varvara (1870–1933), Alexandra (1872–1925) and Marina (1877–1924) as well as the sons Sergei (1862–1905, religious philosopher), Evgeni (1863–1920 , Philosopher) and Grigori (1873–1930, diplomat and politician).

Trubetskoi died on the Lopuchin family seat of Menschowo in today's Podolsk district and found his grave in Moscow's Donskoy Monastery behind the altar of the Great Cathedral, as did his second wife.

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• 125 years of pages: biographies and portraits of the previous pages (1711-1896) . St. Petersburg 1896, p. 422.
• Rodovid: Nikolai Petrovich Trubetskoi (Russian, accessed October 26, 2015)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sergijew Possader Internet-Journal: Akhtyrka, country seat of the Lopuchins (Russian, accessed on October 26, 2015)