Vasily Sergejewitsch Arsenjew

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Coat of arms of the Arseniev family (Courland)

Vasily Sergejewitsch Arsenjew ( Russian : Арсеньев, Василий Сергеевич; born November 8, 1829 in Moscow , † July 19, 1915 in Moscow) was a Russian-Baltic nobleman , real secret council in the Russian Empire and belonged to the Russian Freemasonry .

Life

Vasily Sergejewitsch Arsenjew studied at the Imperial Russian Law School in Saint Petersburg and graduated in 1849 with the award of a silver medal. From 1849 to 1852 he worked in the 7th and 5th Senate Departments in Moscow and was then appointed chamberlain . Since 1853 he had been the collegiate secretary in the Ministry of Justice and was entrusted with special tasks under the Deputy Minister of Justice Viktor Nikitich Panin . In the following years he was:

Origin and family

The aristocratic family Arsenyev came from the ancient Russian nobility , his grandfather Nikolai Ivanovich Arsenyev (1760-1830) was a real Councilor of State and Governor of the Courland Governorate in the Russian Empire . Vasili's brother Dmitri Sergejewitsch Arsenjew (1832-1915) was an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy . From 1858 he was married to Natalie Dolgoruky (1830-1902). Her children: Sergej (1854–1922); Elizabeth (1855-1905); Yuri (1857-1919); Alexej (* / † 1859); Ivan (John)  ; Nadeschda (1863-1937); Mary (1865-1918); Nikolai (1867); Vladimir (1868-1921).

Russian freemasonry

Freemasonry symbol

Vasily Sergeyevich Arsenyev succeeded Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov , the leader of the Masonic " Rosicrucian " tradition in Russian Freemasonry . He held high offices and kept a complete chronicle of the Masonic assemblies from 1850 to 1879 . He inherited the largest library of Russian Freemasonry, which today - with two archives - has its place in the Russian State Library .

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods Görlitz o. J. Digitalisat pp. 498–499

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Orthodox Mission Society was founded in Saint Petersburg in 1865 and relocated to Moscow; In: The Russian Orthodox Church, Volume 19 of The Churches of the World, publisher Pitirim, new edition, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 3110849968 , 9783110849967 [1] , p. 48, accessed on April 30, 2019
  2. Through his large printing works, Novikow brought out popular scientific and religious writings in mass editions; a great lending library was available to all sections of the population. No fewer than 440 books were published by him. On: Freemasons Wiki [2] , accessed May 3, 2019