Pyotr Petrovich Prince Dolgorukov

Prince Pyotr Petrovich Dolgorukov (1744-1815) - General of Infantry, Kaluga and Moscow Governor, Head of the Tula Arms Factory.

Biography

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From the princely Dolgorukov family. The youngest son of Major General Pyotr Sergeyevich Dolgorukov. He was educated in the Land Nobility Corps.

He began his service in 1757 at the Berlin Embassy, but with the beginning of military operations against Turkey he went to the active army and was in Morea under the command of Count Orlov-Chesmensky. During the Peloponnesian uprising, he commanded the Spartan Legion, composed of residents of Lacedemonnia, and to such an extent gained the respect and love of the natives that after 36 years, on the passage through the Sea of his son, Prince Mikhail, the Spartan old-timers, having learned that the Russian passer-by - the For his differences against the Turks, he was promoted Vsekoon Major and on November 26, 1770 he was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree (No. 79 according to Sudravsky's cavalry list and No. 100 according to Grigorovich-Stepanov list)

770 in Morea for the excellent courage he showed during the command of his Spartan legion, and the courage with which he captured the two cities of Andrusoi and Arcadia, also during the attack of the city of Navarina.
Upon his return to Russia, Prince Dolgorukov was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the Tambov Infantry Regiment on March 25, 1775 and from September 22, 1779 was a colonel in this regiment, on April 21, 1789 he was awarded the rank of brigadier, in 1793 he was appointed governor to Kaluga, where he convinced the In the same year, on September 2, he was promoted to major general and appointed governor to Moscow.

Ho on August 20, 1796, due to a quarrel with Prince P. A. Zubov, he retired. On November 8, 1796, that is, the next day after the reign of Emperor Paul I, Prince Dolgorukov was appointed head of the Tula Arms Factory. On March 3, 1798 he was promoted to lieutenant general and on December 30, 1799 - to general from the infantry.

Failures and illness forced him to resign in 1802, and since then he has lived mostly in his estate in Speshneve, Tula province, engaged in agriculture. There he died in February 1815 and was buried 25 versts from there, in the monastery of St. Spirit, near the city of Novosil. According to contemporaries, "he was a husband of the vast mind, comprehensive, firm and sublime in spirit, unselfish and ardently loved his homeland."

Family

Wife - Anastasia Simonovna Lapteva (18.12.1755 - 06.04.1827[1]), sister of Tambov Governor Nikolai Laptev. According to E. P. Yankova, was "very respectable, kind, smart and friendly woman, very pious, kept herself simply, was courteous with everyone and did not matter like her proud husband"[2]. Distinguished by her mind, she was able to give her children a good education. She died of paralysis in Moscow, buried next to her husband. There were five children in the marriage:

1. Vladimir Petrovich (1773-1817), Major General, Chief of the Cavalry Regiment.
2. Elena Petrovna (1774-1823), married to the captain of the guards, Count Sergei Vasilyevich Tolstoy (1767-1831), in her youth she was beautiful, had a gentle and restrained character. After marriage, she left the light and devoted herself to raising children; one of her sons Vladimir, is a Decembrist. She was very friendly with her younger brother Mikhail and supplied him with money during his trip to Paris by courier in 1800.
3. Maria Petrovna (1776-1849), lady-in-waiting, goddaughter of Prince Yu. B. Dolgorukov, who provided her with dowry. In 1804 she married State Counselor Nikolai Petrovich Rimsky-Korsakov (1767-1853). She was not good and crooked, but well educated and smart.
4. Pyotr Petrovich (1777-1806), adjutant general, diplomat.
5. Mikhail Petrovich (1780-1808), Lieutenant General, was killed during the Russo-Swedish War

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