Ivan Inzov
Ivan Nikitich Inzov (Russian: Иван Никитич Инзов; 1768–1845) was a Russian General of the Infantry and a commander in the Patriotic War of 1812. Chişinău owes to him some of its finest buildings, including the Nativity Cathedral.
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Inzov's obscure origin and booming career, in combination with his physical likeness to Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, led some of his contemporaries to suspect that his father was Emperor Paul I of Russia (who was only 14 years his senior).[1] In the early 1820s, Alexander Pushkin was one of his subordinates at Chişinău (then Kishinev). In the words of Henri Troyat, Inzov "looked upon Pushkin as a being set apart, who must be handled carefully".[2] He was buried in a purpose-built mausoleum in Bolhrad, a city he had founded.
He also served as a temporary Governor General of Novorossiia for nearly a year, from July 1822 to May 23, 1823, between Governors General Alexandre Langeron and Mikhail Vorontsov.[3]
Notes
- Lydia Lambert, Willard Ropes Trask. Pushkin, Poet and Lover. Doubleday, 1946. P. 84.
- H. Troyat. Pushkin: A Biography (1950). P. 149.
- Herlihy, Patricia (1991) [1987]. Odessa: A History, 1794-1914. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. pp. 116, 117. ISBN 0-916458-15-6. hardcover; , paperback reprint.