Dmitry Naryshkin

Dmitry Vasilyevich Naryshkin (September 1792 – December 20, 1831)[2] was a military officer and official from the Naryshkin Family, a Real State Councillor, civil governor of the Taurida Governorate.

Dmitry Vasilyevich Naryshkin
Дмитрий Васильевич Нарышкин
Portrait by Frederic Millet (1819)[1]
Taurida Governor
In office
1823–1829
Preceded byNikolay Perovsky
Succeeded byAlexander Kaznacheev
Personal details
Born1792
Moscow, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 20, 1831
Simferopol, Russian Empire
SpouseNatalia Rostopchina
RelationsNaryshkins
ChildrenAnatoly Naryshkin
Parents
  • Vasily Naryshkin (father)
  • Anna Vorontsova (mother)
AwardsOrder of Saint Vladimir
Order of Saint Anna
Order of Saint Louis
Pour le Mérite
Order of the Sword
Military service
AllegianceRussian Empire
Branch/serviceInfantry
Years of service1810–1823
RankColonel
Battles/warsPatriotic War of 1812

Biography

The youngest son of Major General Vasily Naryshkin (1740–1800) from his marriage to Anna Vorontsova (1750–1807), the eldest daughter of Count Ivan Vorontsov, granddaughter of the cabinet minister Volynsky. Born in Moscow and raised at home.

From 1810, he served as a lieutenant in the Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment. Since 1812, he was adjutant under Lieutenant General Nikolay Raevsky. Participated in the Patriotic War of 1812, including the Battle of Borodino. For distinction in battles, he was awarded the Orders of Saint Anna, 3rd Class, and Saint Vladimir, 4th Class With a Bow. In 1813, he was promoted to second lieutenant, from 1814, to lieutenant, from 1815, to captain. Later he served in the Novoingermanland Regiment.

In 1823, for health reasons, he was dismissed from military service with the rank of colonel. Naryshkin suffered from the consequences of numerous injuries and needed a mild climate. His second cousin, the Governor General of Novorossia, Count Mikhail Vorontsov, under whom Naryshkin was an adjutant, procured him a place as Governor of Tavria.

He held this position from October 16, 1823, to April 17, 1829. Having fallen into insanity, Naryshkin was replaced by Alexander Kaznacheev. According to Philipp Vigel, he was "an extremely kind fellow, good–natured, easy to handle, and had in himself more of a military man than of a palace".[3]

He owned estates in the Crimea, in the Vladimir, Tver, Yaroslavl and Tambov Provinces. He died on December 20, 1831, in Simferopol from epilepsy, and was buried there in the Old Cemetery.[4]

Family

Wife (since July 1819) – Natalya Rostopchina (1797–1866), the eldest daughter of the infantry general Count Fyodor Rostopchin. Their wedding was in Paris at the same time as the wedding of her sister Sophia with the Comte de Segur. After marriage, Natalya Fedorovna lived mainly in the Crimea, in Simeiz. Later, for the education of children, she moved to Saint Petersburg. According to contemporaries, she was a smart, kind and enlightened woman; in–depth in the study of the languages and literature of France and England, outwardly she was pretty, although not so much that one could call her a beauty. Thanks to her patronage, the artist Aivazovsky was enrolled in the Academy of Arts. She left notes about the stay of the Rostopchin family in 1812 in Yaroslavl, which were published by her granddaughter in 1912. She was buried next to her father at the Pyatnitskoye Cemetery in Moscow. In marriage, she had sons:

  • Fyodor Dmitrievich (April 21, 1820[5] – 1870), was married (since September 3, 1848)[6] to the maid of honor Princess Tatyana Dolgorukova (1824–1893), daughter of Chief Marshal Nikolai Dolgorukov. She suffered from a nervous breakdown and was being treated by Doctor Roller at Illenau near Baden. Their only daughter, Natalia (1852–1923), was married to Fyodor Opochinin. He died of a heart attack in Dresden;
  • Anatoly Dmitrievich (1829–1883), chamberlain, married to Princess Elizaveta Kurakina (1838–1928), lady of state and chief chamberlain of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, cavalry lady; they had a son Cyril;
  • Mikhail Dmitrievich, died at the age of 18 months, was buried at the Pyatnitsky Cemetery in Moscow.

Awards

References

  1. Article. Naryshkin Dmitry Vasilyevich (1792–1831) on the site Napoleon and the Revolution
  2. State Archive of the Republic of Crimea. Fund 312. Inventory 1. Case 2. Registers of Births of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Simferopol
  3. Philip Vigel. Notes: In 2 Books – Moscow: Zakharov, 2003 – Page 1246
  4. Arseny Markevich (1918). "Necropolis of Simferopol. Old Christian Cemetery in Simferopol" (55) (Proceedings of the Taurida Scientific Archival Commission ed.). Simferopol: 330–367. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. State Budget Institution Central State Archive of Moscow. Fund 2126 – Inventory 1 – File 46 – Page 134. Registers of Births of the Vvedenskaya Church on Lubyanka
  6. Central State Historical Archive of Saint Petersburg. Fund 19. Inventory 124. File 706. Registers of Births of John the Baptist Church at the Kamennoostrovsky Palace
  7. Monthly Book With a List of Officials or the General State of the Russian Empire for the Summer of the Nativity of Christ, 1825: in 2 Parts – Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1825
  8. Monthly Book With a List of Officials or the General State of the Russian Empire for the Summer of the Nativity of Christ, 1829: in 2 Parts – Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1829
  9. List of Holders of Imperial Russian Orders of All Titles for the Summer of the Nativity of Christ, 1827. Part III
  10. "Liste der Träger des Pour le Mérite von 1813 bis 1913".

Sources

  • Witold Rummel, Vladimir Golubtsov. Genealogical Collection of Russian Noble Families – Saint Petersburg: Edition of Alexei Suvorin, 1887 – Volume 2 – Page 345
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