Sergei Vasilyevich Trubetskoy

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Sergei Wassiljewitsch Trubezkoi, portrayed by Pyotr Fyodorowitsch Sokolow around 1835

Prince Sergei Wassiljewitsch Trubezkoi ( Russian Сергей Васильевич Трубецкой Sergej Vasil'evič Trubeckoj ; * 1815 ; †  April 19,  1859 ) was a Russian staff captain .

origin

Trubezkoi's father, Prince Vasily Sergejewitsch Trubezkoi (1776–1841) was adjutant general, cavalry general and senator. The mother, Princess Sofja Andrejewna Trubezkaja, née Weiß (1796–1848), was the daughter of a simple Vilna police master. The brother Alexander (1813-1889) became major general and favorite of the Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna . The sister Maria (1819–1895) became a lady-in-waiting and was considered a well-known beauty.

  • Father in 1804

  • Mother in 1837

  • Brother Alexander around 1875

  • Sister Maria in 1853

Life

When he was a boy, Sergei became a cornet in the Imperial Cavalry Bodyguard Regiment on September 5, 1833 . Disciplined for several pranks , transferred to Grodno , later even imprisoned in Petersburg for his stupidities, he was given to General Count Ivan Osipovich von Witt (1781-1840) in southern Russia in 1835. Promoted to lieutenant with von Witt in 1836 , he returned to the bodyguard regiment in 1837 - again as a cornet.

The discipline by the Tsar followed at the end of 1837. Sergei Trubezkoi was forced to marry Nicholas I with his pregnant mistress Ekaterina Petrovna Mussina-Pushkina (1816-1897). The marriage failed in 1838 after the birth of their daughter Sofja Sergejewna Trubezkaja (1838–1898). The revolt against Nicholas I got the husband reluctantly bad: Because of his membership in the group of sixteen Russian Кружок шестнадцати - a group of opposition young Petersburg nobles, which included Pyotr Valuev , Ivan Gagarin Russian Иван Сергеевич Гагарин (1814-1882) , Boris Golitsyn russian Борис Дмитриевич Голицын (1819-1887) , Mikhail Lermontov , Fyodor Paskevich russian Фёдор Иванович Паскевич (1823-1903) and Andrei Shuvalov russian Андрей Павлович Шувалов (1817-1876) belonged - was in the Sergei Trubetskoy end of 1839 Caucasus sent and had Serving in a regiment of Grebensk Cossacks Russian Гребенские казаки . Together with Lermontow he took part in the Battle of the Valerik River on July 23, 1840, the English Battle of the Valerik River (30 kilometers southwest of Grozny ). Sergei Trubetskoy was wounded. A bullet hit his chest. Nicholas I removed the names of the two fighters from the list of awards. In February 1841 in Petersburg on home leave, the tsar ordered house arrest. Sergei Trubetskoy had rushed to his father's deathbed and ignored formalities. Nicholas I sent Sergei Trubetskoy back to the Caucasus in April 1841. On July 27, Sergei seconded in the last duel Lermontov against Nikolai Martynow Russian Николай Соломонович Мартынов (1815-1875) . In the subsequent process, Mikhail Glebov, Russian Михаил Павлович Глебов (1819–1847) and Alexander Wassiltschikow, Russian Александр Илларионович Васильчиков (1818–1881), did not take part in the contest of honor. On March 18, 1843, Sergei Trubetskoi was discharged from military service as a staff captain due to illness.

In 1851 he was in trying to Lawinija Schadimirowskaja Russian Лавиния Жадимировская to kidnap the wife of a beautiful young Kommerzienrates abroad in Tbilisi caught and in the St. Petersburg Alexei Ravelin spent. Lawinija had hated her husband even before they were married. Unfortunately for Sergei Trubetskois, the lady hunter Nicholas I had received a basket from the extremely charming married woman Lawinija before the kidnapping. A military court denied Sergei Trubetskoi the title of prince and put him in an Orenburg line battalion . The convict already knew Lawinija from her childhood. She was true to him. When Sergei Trubezkoi was released from military service as an ensign in 1855, she is said to have followed him to his village Sapun in Russian Сапун in the Murom district ( Vladimir governorate ). After the prince's death, Lawinija Schadimirowskaja left the property in Sapun immediately.

family

Sofia de Mrony, née Trubetskoi

Trubezkoi was married to Ekaterina Petrovna Mussina-Pushkina (1816-1897). They had a daughter Sofia (1838–1898). It is not certain whether he or Tsar Nikolaus I was her biological father. Sofia married the French special envoy Charles de Morny , a half-brother of Napoleon III , in Saint Petersburg .

reception

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chamber page at Zeno.org
  2. ^ Morny, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, Duc de. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Volume 18: Medal Mumps. London 1911 ( wikisource )
personal data
SURNAME Trubezkoi, Sergei Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Трубецкой, Сергей Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian prince, staff captain of the Imperial Russian Army
DATE OF BIRTH 1815
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1859