Vladimir Ivanovich Steinheil

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Vladimir Ivanovich Steinheil

Baron Vladimir Ivanovich Steinheil ( Russian Владимир Иванович Штейнгейль ., Scientific transliteration Vladimir Ivanovich Štejngejl ' *  13. April 1783 in the village Obwinsk Perm province ; † 20th September 1862 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian colonel and Dekabrist .

Life

The father Baron Johann Gottfried von Steinheil (* 1744; † 14 May 1804), Mayor of Obwinsk, in Russian service since 1772, came from the Brandenburg-Bayreuth noble family of Steinheil. The mother, Varvara Markovna Rasumowa, was a Russian merchant's daughter. The family moved to Kamchatka from the Perm region and lived in Irkutsk since 1790 .

Colonel

Vladimir was baptized in the Orthodox Church and did not understand German. 1792–1799 he attended the St. Petersburg Naval Cadet Academy and then served as a fellow in the Baltic fleet . This was followed by commands in the Imperial Russian Navy in 1802 in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk and in 1806 in the waters around Irkutsk . In the latter service he became a lieutenant in 1807.

In 1809 he traveled to Transbaikalia and married in Kjachta Pelageia Petrovna Wonifatjewa, the daughter of the Kjachta customs director. In the same year he returned to the Baltic Fleet, but was called back to Irkutsk in 1810 and promoted to lieutenant captain. In 1811 he explored the Amur Basin . In 1812 he went to Saint Petersburg and took part in the Patriotic War from 1813 to 1814 . In September 1814 Wladimir Steinheil became adjutant to Moscow Governor General Alexander Tormassow. On August 30, 1816 he became a colonel and resigned on December 4, 1819. As a civilian, from then on he was a civil servant in some municipal administrations - in Tula Governorate , Astrakhan and Moscow. From autumn 1821 he worked for the army supplier Wassili Wargin.

Decembrist

As a member of the Decabrist Northern League , Wladimir Steinheil took an active part in the preparations for the officers' uprising from 1822 to 1825; was considered one of the authors of the manifesto to the Russian people and the appeal to the armed forces . During the uprising on December 14, 1825, he appeared several times on the St. Petersburg Senate Square . On December 20, he went to Moscow, arrested there on January 2, 1826, and imprisoned in St. Petersburg's Peter and Paul Fortress on January 6 . On July 10th, Wladimir Steinheil was sentenced to twenty years of forced labor and on July 25th was taken to the Finnish Castle . The sentence was reduced to fifteen years on August 22nd. On June 17, 1827, Wladimir Steinheil was sent to Siberia . He reached the Ostrog Tschita on August 15 and on September 23, 1830 the Katorga Peter Hut . There, on November 8, 1832, the prison sentence was reduced to ten years. On the decree of December 14, 1835, the detention came to an end. Vladimir Steinheil was forcibly resettled in the village of Jelan in Tschunski Rajon . On December 25, 1836, Benckendorff granted Vladimir Steinheil's request to move to Ischim . Steinheil left Jelan on February 14, 1837 and reached Ishim on March 11. On January 20, 1840, he was allowed to Tobolsk . Steinheil reached the city on March 7th. From 1843 he had to stay in Tara for years as an undesirable person in Tobolsk , but was allowed to return in early 1852. After the amnesty of August 26, 1856, the exile came to an end. Vladimir Steinheil left Tobolsk on September 29th and from October 25th lived again in European Russia - in Tver . The odyssey continued. On November 3rd he reached Kolpino . He left the city on November 27 and moved to Saint Petersburg to live with his son Vyacheslav, an inspector at the Alexandrovsky Lyceum. From December 12, 1858, he was no longer monitored by the secret service there. From March 5, 1859, Wladimir Steinheil was allowed to wear his medals from the days of the Patriotic War in 1813 again.

Vladimir Steinheil was buried in the Ochta cemetery in Saint Petersburg.

Fonts (selection)

in Russian language:

  • 1834 Alexander Ivanovich Hearts (ed.): "Сибирские сатрапы" or "Записки о Сибири В. И. Штейнгейля “- Steinheil's notes on Siberia
  • 1985, Ostsibirischer Buchverlag Irkutsk: Steinheil's writings and letters

Awards

children

Vladimir Steinheil had ten children with Pelageia Petrovna Wonifatjewa:

  • Julia (April 7, 1811 - July 2, 1897)
  • Rostislaw (born February 1, 1813)
  • Vsevolod (born November 25, 1814)
  • Wera (* 1815)
  • Maria (1816-8 March 1817)
  • Nikolai (7 December 1817 - 1845)
  • Nadezhda (born July 31, 1819 - † December 11, 1898)
  • Vyacheslav (12 May 1823 - 8 September 1897), 1891 general of the infantry
  • Lyudmila (May 4, 1824 - December 31, 1898)
  • Vladimir (born July 1, 1825)

Web links

Commons : Wladimir Iwanowitsch Steinheil  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Entry at hrono.ru/biograf (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Обвинск
  2. ↑ Russian Варвара Марковна Разумова
  3. ↑ Russian Морской кадетский корпус
  4. ↑ Russian Тормасов, Александр Петрович
  5. ↑ Russian Варгин, Василий Васильевич
  6. ↑ Russian Северное тайное общество
  7. ^ Russian manifesto to the Russian people
  8. ↑ Russian приказ войскам
  9. ↑ Russian Читинский острог
  10. ↑ Russian Елань (Чунский район)
  11. ↑ Russian Александровский лицей
  12. ↑ Russian cemetery Ochta
  13. ↑ Entry in WorldCat
personal data
SURNAME Steinheil, Vladimir Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Штейнгейль, Владимир Иванович (Cyrillic); Štejngelʹ, Vladimir Ivanovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian colonel and Decembrist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Obvinsk village, Perm Governorate
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1862
Place of death St. Petersburg