Rumyantseva Countess Maria Andreevna. Rumyantseva, Maria Andreevna Literature about life and work

Poet Maya Aleksandrovna Rumyantseva was born on December 27, 1928 in Moscow. Her childhood was difficult - it coincided with the Great Patriotic War. After finishing fifth grade, the future poetess had to go to work and continue her education at a school for working youth. She was a loader, a laboratory assistant, and an agroforestry specialist. She studied at the A. M. Gorky Literary Institute.

In 1957, her first poems appeared in print. Then she was published in the magazines “Smena”, “Peasant”, “Rise” and others.

In 1961-1966, M. A. Rumyantseva lived in Lipetsk, where she established herself as a poet. Here, in 1962, her first collection of poems, “The Loader,” was published. Her most popular works, “The Ballad of Nettles,” “The Ballad of the Cut-Off Braid,” “The Ballad of the Gray-haired People,” the poems “The Seagull,” “Give it to Reality,” were created here in 1962. dream…".

Since 1967, the poetess lived in Tambov, from 1968 until her last days she was the executive secretary of the Tambov Regional Writers' Organization.

Maya Alexandrovna published a lot of books during her lifetime: “The Seagull”, “Your Name”, “Maiden Name”, “Trust” and others. They were published in Moscow, Lipetsk, Voronezh.

M. A. Rumyantseva dedicated many poems to the workers of the black earth region. Her collection “Characters” consists almost entirely of dedications to the Michurinsk, Sosnovtsy, Lipchan residents, entire groups and organizations. The poetess was a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples (1978), “Badge of Honor”.

M.A. Rumyantseva died on March 21, 1980 in Tambov. Her collections of poems “Meetings and Separations” (1991), “Emancipation” (2002), and “Undiscovered Depth” (2006) were also posthumously published there.

Her poetry is a confession. She believed that the reader would understand everything that was written with a caring heart. Rumyantseva’s creative range is wide and varied: from poems about grain growers and land reclamation workers, oil workers and fishermen, longshoremen and raftsmen to tender love lyrics and landscapes of the Central Russian strip.

The poet Vladimir Tsybin wrote about her: “In essence, most of Rumyantseva’s poems are memories: about childhood, about what she heard from miserable village women, about working in the field as a loader; even love is in the past. As if she had been separated from someone dear and irrevocable a long time ago. Her poems about love are from separation. Zhukovsky’s words that there are many beautiful things in life, besides happiness, are most appropriate for her and her poems about love...”

I'll shut up and maybe I'll cry
Among insults, corruption and torment.
I'll leave with my failure -
With all the bitterness of calm hands...
But when I die, people will suddenly see
That I have a heart for a reason...

Author's works

• Loader: poetry. - Lipetsk: Book. publishing house, 1962. - 41 p.
• Smokey: poems for children. - Lipetsk: Book. publishing house, 1963. - 16 p.
• Maiden name: poetry. - M.: Mol. Guard, 1964. - 78 p.
• Seagull: poems. - M.: Pravda, 1965. - 31 p.
• Trust: poems. - Voronezh: Central - Chernozem. book publishing house, 1966. - 80 p.
• Your name.... - M.: Advice. Russia, 1969. - 77 p.
• Selected lyrics/intro. Art. E. Asadova. - M.: Young Guard, 1969. - 32 p. - (B-chka selected lyrics).
• Scope: poems from different years. - M.: Sovremennik, 1971. - 95 p.
• War: poems and poetry. - Voronezh: Central-Chernozem. book publishing house, 1972. - 95 p.
• How the poet was late for a date: a poem about the Hero of Socialism. Labor of the milkmaid of the state farm named after. Lenin T.F. Kudelina / [ill. A. Ershov] - M.: Sovremennik, 1974. - 63 p. : ill. ; 16 cm - (New items from Sovremennik).
• Characters: poems. - Voronezh: Central-Chernozem. book publishing house, 1977. - 126 p. : ill.
• Road, meeting, love...: book. poems. - M.: Sovremennik, 1978. - 159 p.
• Favorites / [entry] Art. V. Tsybina]. - M.: Artist. lit., 1980. - 182 p. : portrait
• Liberation: poems. - Tambov, 2002. - 130 p.

Literature about life and creativity

• Mekshen S. The Phenomenon of Maya // TVK-courier. - 1996. - December 27.
• Neverov I. And the heart, in songs to the fullest... // Lipetsk newspaper. - 1998. - December 30. - P. 6.
• Zorin V. “Loader” - “seagull” - Maya // Good evening. - 2006. - August 16-22. (No. 33). - P. 18.
• Makarov A. “Earring! Earring! I’ll tear off the earrings..!”: [the story of one autograph by M. Rumyantseva] // Rise. - 2007. - No. 4. - P. 216-219.
• Maya Rumyantseva: writer's anniversary: ​​[method. materials] / Lipets. OUNB; comp. O. A. Berezina. - Lipetsk, 2008. - 28 p. - (Books by our fellow countrymen).
• Zorin V. Seagull Loader: [Lipets. poet about his meeting with M. Rumyantseva] // Petrovsky Bridge. - 2008. - No. 2. - P. 109-110.

Reference materials

• Lipetsk encyclopedia. - Lipetsk, 2001. - T. 3. - P. 184.
• Glorious names of the land of Lipetsk: biogr. reference about the known writers, scientists, educators, artists. - Lipetsk, 2007. - pp. 189-190.
• Maya Rumyantseva: list of lit. / comp. L. I. Blinova; LOUNBE. - Lipetsk, 1965. - 12 p.

Countess Maria Andreevna Rumyantseva (Rumyantsova), born Matveeva(1699-1788) - mother of the commander Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky, according to rumors, she was born from Peter the Great, lady of state, chamberlain.

Biography [ | ]

Maria Rumyantseva came from an ancient noble family: she was the daughter of the actual privy councilor of Count Andrei Matveev (1666-1728) from her first marriage to Anna Stepanovna Anichkova (1666-1699), and on her paternal side she was the granddaughter of boyar Artamon Matveev. She received a European education and spent the first years of her life in Vienna and The Hague, where her father served as ambassador until 1710.

With Peter [ | ]

She spoke French fluently, danced well, and had beauty and liveliness that attracted the attention of Peter I.

Peter I not only had a great affection for M.A. Matveeva, but was also jealous of her for others to the point that he once even punished her with his own hand for being too bold with someone else and threatened her that he would marry her to a man who will be able to keep her strict and will not allow her to have lovers other than him.

“She took first place among the mistresses of the great emperor, he loved Maria Andreevna until the end of his life and was even jealous of her, which rarely happened to him. Wanting someone to keep a tight rein on the young countess, the Tsar married 19-year-old Matveeva to his favorite orderly, Alexander Ivanovich Rumyantsev...” (Grand Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich)

At the age of 19, on July 10, 1720, with a rich dowry given by the Tsar, she was married to the Tsar’s orderly Alexander Ivanovich Rumyantsev, who received the rank of brigadier and had recently distinguished himself in the investigation of the case of Tsarevich Alexei. The tsar granted the groom “considerable villages,” confiscated from the executed A.V. Kikin. The newlyweds settled in a house on the Red Canal (site of house No. 3 on the Field of Mars). Peter I gave Rumyantsev in 1724 a large plot of land on the left bank of the Fontanka, near the road to Tsarskoe Selo. A one-story country house was built there and a garden was laid out (now Fontanka River embankment, 116). In this wooden house, on February 18, 1756, the Church of the Mother of God “The Sign” was consecrated. (It is curious that the tsar’s mistress, but less successful, was another relative of Artamon Matveev - Maria Hamilton, cousin of his wife Evdokia Grigorievna Hamilton, sometimes also mistakenly called his “granddaughter”).

Following this, she gave birth to three daughters. In 1725, her husband was in Constantinople, and then on the Persian border for demarcation, Maria remained in Moscow, where she gave birth to a fourth child, a son baptized in honor of the Tsar Peter Alexandrovich, who was destined to become a famous commander. Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich reports that the boy’s father was not his legal spouse, but Peter himself; Valishevsky agrees with the same legend. It is difficult to judge the reliability of this legend, however, I. I. Golikov gives it indirect confirmation in his anecdotes about Peter the Great. The boy turned out to be the last of the godsons of the emperor who died shortly after. Empress Catherine became the godmother.

Rumyantseva had influence at court, thanks to gifts she assisted the French envoy Campredon, and was on friendly terms with Princess Elizabeth.

After Peter [ | ]

Girlfriend of Peter I next to the bust of Catherine II

In 1740, Rumyantsev was appointed commissioner for the congress in Abo, during the celebration of the peace concluded there, Rumyantseva received the title of lady of state from the new Empress Elizabeth, and, since her husband was elevated to the rank of count, she became a countess and acquired very great influence at court thanks to her “intelligence and tact”: contributed to the success of the order of the Swedish general Dühring, the French envoy Dalion considered it necessary to pay her a pension, the English ambassador Veitch unsuccessfully tried to win her over to his side (but Rumyantseva and her husband adhered to the pro-French Shuvalov party).

In 1744, Empress Elizabeth entrusted her with managing the court of the future Catherine II, still Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst ( as Her Majesty's confidant, for the supervision and guardianship of the Princess, with the obligation to give the Empress a detailed report on everything she notices) - and in this “small yard” they were very afraid of Rumyantsev.

Catherine II recalls:

During these masquerades, it was noticed that the old Countess Rumyantseva began to have frequent conversations with the Empress, and that the latter was very cold with her mother, and it was easy to guess that Rumyantseva was arming the Empress against her mother and instilling in her the anger that she herself had harbored since her trip to Ukraine to the whole cart that I spoke about above; if she did not do this before, it was because she was too busy with a big game, which continued until then and which she always gave up last, but when this game ended, her anger could not be contained.

She accompanied Empress Elizabeth on a trip from Moscow to Razumovsky in Glukhov in 1744, and then to St. Petersburg, was with her at Razumovsky’s feast in Gostilitsy on her name day, September 5, 1745, etc. After the princess and the great Prince Pyotr Fedorovich was married, Rumyantseva was dismissed from the post of chamberlain and was ordered to return to her husband. It was believed that the reason for this was the hostility of Grand Duchess Catherine's mother, Johanna of Holstein-Gottorp, as well as Chancellor Bestuzhev-Ryumin. But Rumyantseva retained her position as a person friendly with the Empress.

Rumyantseva! She shone
Intelligence, breed, beauty,
And in old age I gained love
Everyone has a kind soul;
She firmly closed
Marital gaze, friends, children;
Served seven monarchs
She wore the badges of their honor.

Widow [ | ]

In 1749, Rumyantseva was widowed, but remained at court and continued to live extravagantly, sometimes losing at cards, which is why she often turned to Elizabeth for financial help, and then to Catherine, at whose court, as the oldest court lady and contemporary of Peter, and then the field marshal's mother, was highly respected. Count Segur wrote about the hostess: “Her body, broken by paralysis, alone exposed old age; her head was full of life, her mind shone with gaiety, her imagination bore the stamp of youth. Her conversation was as interesting and instructive as a well-written story.”

Catherine II, although she well remembered how Rumyantseva tormented her while being the manager of her court, having ascended the throne, made her chamberlain (June 10, 1776), which was facilitated by the merits of her son-commander. After he concluded the Treaty of Kyuchuk-Kainardzhi, she was granted

2.1. Alexander Ivanovich Rumyantsev(1680 - March 4, 1749, Moscow) - count, general-in-chief, adjutant of Peter I, Astrakhan and Kazan governor, Russian diplomat. Father of Count P. A. Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky.

Borovikovsky, Vladimir Lukich (1757-1825) Portrait of Peter I's associate Alexander Ivanovich Rumyantsev (1680-1749) Posthumous portrait

son of a Kostroma nobleman, steward Ivan Ivanovich Rumyantsev(d. 1711), brother of a major general and senator Nikita Ivanovich Rumyantsev born, as can be concluded from the inscription on the monument erected on his grave in the Chrysostom Monastery in Moscow, at the very end of 1679 or at the beginning. 1680 and, probably, spent the first years of his life in the village, with his family, learning, like his peers, Russian literacy and the Law of God from a local sexton and not thinking about a broader education. He, however, was lucky enough to be among those amusing people whom Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich recruited for his young son, the future transformer of Russia, having noticed in him a penchant for military amusements. Joint stay in the ranks of these amusing people brought young Rumyantsev closer to many of the future great associates of Peter I, such as: Prince M. M. Golitsyn, A. D. Menshikov, Gr. P. Chernyshev, P. I. Yaguzhinsky and others, and at the same time gave him the opportunity to become personally known to the future Tsar, who could even at that time pay attention to Rumyantsev’s zeal and zeal in his service, to his diligence and other qualities that he showed it later too.

Upon reaching the required years for military service, Rumyantsev was assigned to the army and soon took part in the great Northern War that had begun at that time. He was sent with the nobles from the undergrowth near Narva in 1700 and was appointed adjutant to the then okolnik Pyotr Matveevich Apraksin. He took part in the ill-fated battle on October 19, 1701 near Narva, soon after which he was transferred, in 1703, to the Life Guards. The Preobrazhensky Regiment was a lower rank, at the choice of Peter I himself, and participated in the campaigns carried out by the regiment at this time, participated in the capture of Narva, Mitava, in the siege of Vyborg, in the battle of Lesnaya. This transfer to the Life Guards. The Preobrazhensky Regiment was of great importance at that time, because it was not only the Tsar’s favorite regiment, but also a breeding ground for dignitaries and officials of the Russian state of that time. The Tsar constantly gave various instructions to the officers of the Preobrazhensky Regiment and, based on the degree of their execution, concluded about the abilities of the performer, about the degree of his zeal for the Tsar’s service, and appointed one or another officer to various, more or less prominent positions. From the same regiment, the Tsar sent young people abroad to acquire various technical information.

in February 1708 he was promoted to ensign; in June 1709 he distinguished himself in the Battle of Poltava; in 1711 he took part in the Prut campaign.
In May 1712 he was sent to the Russian ambassador in Copenhagen and promoted to lieutenant.

From 1712 he served as adjutant Peter I, carried out his instructions:

in 1714, with the rank of captain-lieutenant, he recruited 500 sailors for a ship under construction in Arkhangelsk;
in 1715 he took possession of the small Finnish town of Kayansberg;
in 1716 he accompanied Peter I on a trip abroad;

In 1716, Rumyantsev accompanied Peter, who set off with a very small retinue on a trip abroad. Having received news in Amsterdam about the flight of his son Tsarevich Alexei, Peter immediately sent Rumyantsev with three other officers with a letter to our ambassador Veselovsky in Vienna, with a secret command to seize the Tsarevich and take him to Mecklenburg. Having learned in Vienna that the Tsarevich was in Tyrol, Rumyantsev immediately went there and, making sure that Tsarevich Alexei was in Ehrenberg, in the Tsar's castle, returned to Vienna and reported everything to the Tsar, asking for orders for further actions. Veselovsky, however, ordered him to go to Ehrenberg again, keep an eye on the Tsarevich and, when he left the castle, follow him inseparably. Tsarevich Alexei, however, even before Rumyantsev’s second arrival, left Ehrenberg and made his way, as it turned out later, to Naples. Rumyantsev, having learned about this upon his arrival in Ehrenberg, set off further and followed the Tsarevich all the way to Naples, where he learned that he was staying in the castle of Saint-Elmo, located on one of the heights surrounding Naples. With this news, Rumyantsev returned to Vienna and then went to Spa, to Tsar Peter I, who was using the waters at that time. On July 1, 1717, Peter I sent Rumyantsev together with P. A. Tolstoy back to Vienna, with letters, one of which was to the Tsarevich, and the other to the German Emperor, demanding the extradition of his son. The secret conference did not consider it possible to satisfy the Tsar’s demand, but to prove their friendship with him, it allowed Rumyantsev and Tolstoy to go to Naples, see the Tsarevich, talk with him, and if he does not want to return, then they will not send him willy-nilly. At a special audience, thanking the Tsar for such frankness, Rumyantsev and Tolstoy left Vienna for Naples on August 21, where they arrived on September 24, saw Tsarevich Alexei and convinced him to return to his fatherland. Rumyantsev, accompanying the Tsarevich from Naples, stopped in Barry to venerate the relics of St. Nicholas, and then through Rome, Bologna, Venice, Innsbruck reached Linz by land, from where he arrived in Vienna by water on December 4, late in the evening. Without appearing to the Caesar, the travelers headed by land directly to Brunn and then, through Breslau and Danzig, reached Riga by January 10, 1718, from where, through Novgorod and Tver, they arrived in Moscow late in the evening on January 30 and handed it over to Peter I the next day. son, over whom a supreme court of 27 persons was appointed, including Rumyantsev. The court sentenced Tsarevich to death. For the successful execution of the royal order A. I. Rumyantsev, on December 13, 1718, by a special decree, was granted two ranks, namely from the guard as a major and adjutant general, and from the villages of Alexander Kikin and Kirill Matyushkin - supporters of the prince;

Taking care of preparations for the naval campaign, Peter I already in the next year, 1719, sent Rumyantsev to inspect Revel, that is, the harbor, citadel and batteries, as well as the ships armed there. In addition, in the same 1719, he was sent to Moscow to seize all the Jesuits living in the city in the Jesuit monastery, inspect and take their letters and at dawn announce to the Jesuits a decree on their expulsion and then, allowing them to leave, send Moscow abroad with a kind guide. Rumyantsev fulfilled everything exactly, and the Jesuits were removed from our state in 1719.

The following year, 1720, Rumyantsev intended to marry the person he had chosen, but Peter I did not approve of his choice of bride and went with him to the boyar Count Andrei Artamonovich Matveev - to woo his daughter, the young beauty Maria Andreevna, who had been abroad for a considerable time together with his father. Matveev, considering Rumyantsev a poor nobleman, found him unworthy of his daughter’s hand, but did not consider it convenient to resist the wishes of Peter I, especially since the Tsar expressed to him that he loved Rumyantsev, and that it was in his power to compare the groom with the noblest themselves. Rumyantsev's wedding with gr. Maria Andreevna Matveeva took place on July 10, 1720 in the presence of the Tsar and his wife, who the next day, July 11, ate at Rumyantsev’s in the Postal Yard.

Alexey Petrovich Antropov (1716-1795) (1716-1795) Maria Rumyantseva (1764, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg)
Countess Maria Andreevna Rumyantseva(Rumyantsova), nee Matveeva (1699-1788) - lady of state, chamberlain.
Maria Rumyantseva came from an ancient noble family: she was the daughter of the actual privy councilor of the count Andrey Matveev (1666-1728) from her first marriage with Anna Stepanovna Anichkova (1666-1699), and on her father’s side she was the granddaughter of a boyar Artamon Matveev, who held important government positions and was killed during another Streltsy riot.
She received a European education and spent the first years of her life in Vienna and The Hague, where her father served as ambassador until 1710. The girl was raised by her stepmother, Anastasia Ermilovna Argamakova.

atelier Rigo-y-Rossa. Portrait of count Andrey Artamonovich Matveev (1666—1728) (1706)

Andrei Matveev can be called a true “chick of Petrov’s nest”: well educated, unconditionally accepting the reforms carried out by the tsar, who arranged his home in a completely foreign way, and of his own free will, and not under coercion. He also tried to raise his daughters in a new taste.
Maria spoke French fluently, danced well, and had a beauty and vivacity that attracted attention Peter I.
Peter I not only had a great affection for M.A. Matveeva, but was also jealous of others to the point that he once even punished her with his own hand for being too bold with someone else and threatened her that he would marry her to a man who will be able to keep her strict and will not allow her to have lovers other than him alone.
“She took first place among the mistresses of the great emperor, he loved Maria Andreevna until the end of his life and was even jealous of her, which happened to him infrequently. Wanting someone to keep a tight rein on the young countess, the Tsar married 19-year-old Matveeva to his favorite orderly, Alexander Ivanovich Rumyantsev...” (Grand Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich).
The wedding did not cause much delight in the father of the bride, although the tsar granted the groom “considerable villages” confiscated from the executed A.V. Kikin.

The newlyweds settled in a house on the Red Canal (site of house No. 3 on the Field of Mars), where the Tsar himself visited them, both alone and with his wife. Peter I gave Rumyantsev in 1724 a large plot of land on the left bank of the Fontanka, near the road to Tsarskoye Selo. A one-story country house was built there and a garden was laid out (now Fontanka River embankment, 116). In this wooden house, on February 18, 1756, the Church of Our Lady of the Sign was consecrated.

Soon after the wedding, Rumyantsev was sent by the Tsar to Sweden, on August 9, 1720, to the Swedish King Frederick I of Hesse, the husband of Ulrika-Eleanor, sister of Charles XII, with a letter of congratulations on his accession to the royal throne after the death of the childless Charles XII in 1718 year. At the same time, the Tsar instructed Rumyantsev to express to Frederick I that he had a desire to be in peaceful relations with the new king. At the same time, Rumyantsev was given special instructions, on the basis of which he had to act in Stockholm, i.e., what and how to say, what to find out, etc. Rumyantsev, as he wrote to the Tsar from the road, arrived safely in Abo in September month, crossed the bay to Stockholm and had an audience with the king and queen on October 14th and 16th. He was received very kindly and noticed in the king and his ministers a readiness to make peace. He delivered a letter from the king to Peter I expressing his desire to start a cartel on the exchange of prisoners and open peace negotiations directly, and the city of Abo was supposed to be chosen as the place for negotiations. Peter I ordered in December 1720 Osterman to write a letter to the Swedish royal secretary Gencken on behalf of Rumyantsev, promising to soon begin peace negotiations, which on his grandfather soon opened in Nystadt, near Abo. Rumyantsev did not directly participate in these negotiations, but was in Finland in 1720 and 1721 as adjutant general to the chief commander of our troops in Finland and was obliged to report directly to His Majesty about all actions and behavior of the commander. When at the congress there were doubts about the accuracy of the geographical maps he had, Peter I ordered Rumyantsev to go to Vyborg and, together with Governor Shuvalov, correct the maps and deliver them to him for sending to the congress. Likewise, through Rumyantsev, Peter I reminded his representatives at the congress about the inclusion in the peace treaty with Sweden of a clause on free trade in the Baltic Sea for all peoples. Being very interested in the progress of the negotiations in Nystadt, Peter I, while in Rogernik, wrote to Rumyantsev on June 8, 1721, asking him to go directly from Nyushtadt by land to Rogernik, “and send the letter by water, so that I can get information from both routes as quickly as possible.” Rumyantsev arrived in Rogernik with the pleasant news that the affairs of the congress were going according to his wishes; the desired peace was concluded on August 30, 1721. At the celebrations of this world, Rumyantsev was promoted to brigadier and was soon sent to Little Russia to investigate complaints submitted to Peter in St. Petersburg by the Little Russian foreman, with Polubotk at the head, against the actions of the Little Russian Collegium, chaired by foreman Velyaminov and appointed officials from the Great Russians and at the request-complaint sergeants and Cossacks of the Starodubovsky regiment to determine to them from the Great Russians “the rights of their guardians.” At the same time, Peter I ordered Rumyantsev to inspect all the Little Russian cities, inquire whether all Little Russians want the Great Russian boards and courts, as well as Russian colonels, to find out whether the elders and Cossacks know about the petition submitted to the Tsar on their behalf, to find out what insults were committed against the Cossacks from elders in the seizure of lands and mills, etc.

During his stay in Little Russia, Rumyantsev carried out all the instructions of Peter. In addition, he founded the so-called Alexander Shanets in the place where Kherson is now.

Returning to St. Petersburg, Rumyantsev found the Tsar busy with preparations for the Persian campaign, undertaken by Peter to establish Russian rule in the Caspian Sea, with the goal of penetrating not only Persia, but Khiva, Bukhara, etc. Rumyantsev was with the Tsar on his first campaign 1722 and reached the city of Derbent, but a strong storm, which wrecked a considerable number of our ships, as is known, forced Peter, due to lack of provisions, to return back to Torquay, and then on October 4th to Astrakhan, where he began to prepare for a new hike. Finding it necessary to have a special fleet for this, Peter sent from Derbent on October 20, 1722 Rumyantsev, already a guard major, to Kazan to build a considerable number of flat-bottomed ships by the spring of next year, which he built on time. Peter was very pleased with this and on April 23, 1723, he thanked Rumyantsev for the speedy execution of this order, ordering him, having sent the last ships, to escort them personally to the mouth of the river. Kama and then come to Astrakhan yourself. Rumyantsev fulfilled all this and was later sent with an army to participate in the capture of Baku, which Matyushkin captured on July 26, 1723.

Soon after this, an alliance treaty was concluded with Persia, which necessitated the need to make a new delimitation of lands in Asia between Russia, Persia and Turkey, which was later entrusted to Rumyantsev, who, returning from the Persian campaign at the end of 1723, went the following year to Moscow for the coronation wife of Peter I - Catherine I and commanded, with the rank of brigadier, the troops gathered on Ivanovo Square. Soon after the coronation, Rumyantsev was sent to Constantinople as ambassador extraordinary to the Sultan, and was promoted to major general, in order to begin to be called this rank only upon arrival in Turkey. The peace treaty concluded with Turkey in 1724 had to be ratified, and in addition, Peter I gave Rumyantsev a promemory, written in his own hand, of seven points relating to our affairs with Persia.

In addition, the State Collegium gave Rumyantsev extensive instructions, which primarily related to the delimitation of lands in Asia Minor, and issued a letter of authority under the great seal. In addition, the Tsar ordered Rumyantsev to select four from the nobility from the students of the Moscow Theological Academy to teach the Turkish language and take them with him to Constantinople. He was given a lot of money for expenses and a lot of all sorts of soft junk and ducats to distribute as gifts. He had a considerable retinue of various officials and a military team with him. Rumyantsev set out from St. Petersburg in October 1724, reached Kiev with difficulty by November 13th and was already in Bendery on the 27th, where he was met with honor and compliments by the Turkish authorities and on December 26th reached Constantinople, where he met with our resident under Porte at that time - Iv. Iv. Neplyuev. Rumyantsev had an audience with the vizier on January 2, 1725, and then on January 5, the first audience with the Sultan, and after that the next one on January 19 to accept the ratified documents. Rumyantsev was not slow to report his audiences with the Sultan to the Tsar, but the report of January 5th did not find the great transformer alive, and Rumyantsev was not slow to write to his widow, Empress Catherine I, a congratulatory letter on her accession to the All-Russian throne. He himself was in a hurry to begin executing the remaining orders concerning Persia and the delimitation of our lands with it, which was to be carried out, among other things, with the participation of a representative of the French Court. The Turkish authorities more than once declared to Rumyantsev in words that they would not hesitate to send him to Persia, but in fact they all postponed his departure under various pretexts, among which the most significant was the uprising of Eshref that took place in Persia at that time, who declared himself the legitimate ruler of Persia instead of Tokhmasib . Turkey did not recognize Eshref as the ruler of Persia and sent its troops to expel him from Persia, which, gradually occupying one Persian city after another, gradually began to approach our borders near the Caspian Sea.

To Rumyantsev’s question what he should do and whether to expect the establishment of silence and order in Persia in Constantinople, in February 1726, a decree was issued from the Collegium of Foreign Affairs addressed to him that if on the part of the Turks there was no inclination towards differentiation, his stay in Constantinople was not visible. unpleasant, then he can leave for St. Petersburg with his entire retinue, handing over all the papers and money to Neplyuev. If the Porte intends to begin demarcation, then let him send him with the commissioners to the places of demarcation. He was ordered to object to various conquests made by the Turks in Persia. Rumyantsev reported all this to the vizier and, after many private audiences with him, finally had a farewell audience with him on May 12, after which he headed by sea to Trebizond, from where he set off further by land and reached Ganja by July 3, but was always sick with fever. He went further to Shamakhi, where he arrived only on August 4, and began to hurry the Turks to begin demarcation. The Turks hesitated. Finally, a month later, delimitation began, which was completed on October 27, 1726, when an instrument (act) was signed in the town of Mabur on the delimitation of lands between Russia and Turkey in the Shirvan province belonging to Persia. But even during the work on this delimitation, the question arose of convening, at the request of Shah Tokhmasib, a general congress (Russia, Persia and Turkey) to resolve controversial issues about the land borders of these three states, and the commanders of our troops on the Asian border, Levashev and Prince. Dolgorukov, found it necessary to participate in this congress of Rumyantsev, who was delimiting lands with Persia near the Caspian Sea, which was delayed largely due to the lack of correct geographical maps of those areas that still had to be drawn up, and due to the reluctance of some independent rulers of the mountain tribes to allow drawing a line and passing the boundary along their possessions. This caused long negotiations with them and with the Porte, to which they recognized themselves as subordinates, and in the meantime Rumyantsev was forced to remain inactive, either in Baku or in Derbent. He wrote about this to Neplyuev, our ambassador in Constantinople, adding: “I continue my idle existence, which my pen cannot describe as boredom.” He received a rescript from the court that it was impossible for him to leave without waiting for information from the Council and the Porte. At this time, on June 27, 1727, Rumyantsev was promoted to lieutenant general, and he was ordered, upon completion of work on delimiting lands in Persia, “to be in the command of General Prince. Dolgorukov." At that time he was in private correspondence with the powerful Prince A.D. Menshikov, wrote to him that the Turks were only wasting time, and asked him to intercede for a merciful resolution - "so that I do not continue my idleness here." But Menshikov was not destined to do this for his former colleague in the service under Peter I.

In 1725, when her husband was in Constantinople, and then on the Persian border, Maria Andreevna remained in Moscow, where she gave birth to a son, baptized in honor of the Tsar Peter Alexandrovich, who was destined to become a famous commander. Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich reports that the boy’s father was not his legal spouse, but Peter himself; Valishevsky agrees with the same legend. It is difficult to judge the reliability of this legend, however, I. I. Golikov in his anecdotes about Peter the Great gives it indirect confirmation. The boy turned out to be the last of the godsons of the emperor who died shortly after. Empress Catherine became the godmother.

In total, the Rumyantsevs had four children:

2.1.1. Catherine(November 1721 - April 3, 1786), the christening of the newborn took place on November 26, 1721, in the presence of His Majesty and His wife. Having received, like other girls of that time, a rather limited education at home, she later married Lieutenant General Nikolai Mikhailovich Leontyev, who was much older than her in years and apparently had a rather tough disposition. The couple did not get along in character, and Ekaterina Alexandrovna, having left her husband around 1760, returned to her mother’s house, with whom she lived until her death. She was one of the first correspondents of her brother Field Marshal and died on April 3, 1788. She had no children. Her husband died prematurely: on September 19, 1769, he was killed by a rifle shot through a mansion window in his village of Goloshchapov (Krapivensky district) by one of his serfs, whom he treated brutally. Prince Ya. P. Shakhovskoy reports that Countess Marya Andreevna, taking advantage of Her Majesty’s excellent mercy, requested that from the estate of N. M. Leontyev a specified part be allocated to his wife, that is, from the real estate one seventh part, where he wishes to take it, and instead of the fourth part of the movable property - give 35,000 rubles in money. The decree on this for execution by the Senate took place on March 21, 1761. But then the Senate found that it was forbidden to do such nasty things as to take parts while a living wife or a living husband, and therefore parts should not be given to the wife of Lieutenant General Leontyev, and if something was given to her by decree, then it should be returned to her former husband, and if something was not given, it should not be given. Empress Catherine II confirmed this on August 8, 1762.

2.1.2. Peter(1725-1796) - count, field marshal general;

2.1.3. Praskovya(October 7, 1729 - April 17, 1786) - lady of state, married to the general-in-chief J. A. Bruce; Friend of Catherine II

2.1.4. Daria(late 1723 or 1730 - 1817); 1st husband - Count Franz Joseph Waldstein(1719-1758), 2nd - prince, actual privy councilor Yuri Nikitich Trubetskoy(1736-1811; son of Prosecutor General Prince Nikita Yuryevich). Her daughter from her second marriage is P. Yu. Gagarina

In the middle of 1727, Rumyantsev received a decree on the death, on May 6, of Empress Catherine I and on the accession to the throne, at her testament, of the grandson of Peter I, young Peter II, the son of Tsarevich Alexei, in whose capture and sad death Rumyantsev showed considerable activity. He could rightly fear being disgraced, but in reality these fears were not realized, and during the entire short reign of Peter II, Rumyantsev stayed in Transcaucasia and carried out the official duties assigned to him even earlier. He soon became very ill in Shirvan and arrived in Baku in October 1728 so sick that he could not inform the College about his illness, which lasted until the beginning of February 1729. In March of the same year, the young Tsar, recognizing the merits of Rumyantsev, I gave him 20,000 rubles in gratitude. for the estates taken from him earlier. He was ordered even earlier not to allow the Shirvan Khan Surkhai to appropriate the Kuralinians living near Derbent, to make annual salaries from the income from Baku to various mountain rulers and the sister of the Georgian King Vakhtang, Abbess Nina, etc. Rumyantsev, while in Derbent, asked for a decree on what to do with the Kabardians, for he is completely unaware of when Kabarda came under the rule of His Majesty and the borders of Kabarda are unknown to him. He really asked for troops to be sent to him, because, although it is calm among the mountain peoples, it is necessary to look after the petty princes; in addition, he was very afraid of raids from the Mugan steppe, believing that the Kizil-bashi might still rebel and worry and expose the region to great danger.

Tired to the extreme by his stay in the Caspian lands, Rumyantsev asked the College of Foreign Affairs to relieve him of his duties and allow him to return to Moscow. The Supreme Privy Council, on May 30, 1730, informed him that in the case of the delimitation with Persia from the Kura to Gilyak, Major General Eropkin would be sent with instructions, instructed him to complete the delimitation not only in Shirvan, but also in Mugan, to prepare evidence of all grievances from Surkhai, draw up a correct map with a description, etc. But he did not have to carry out all this, because on July 16, 1730, a decree was issued on the return of Rumyantsev to Moscow, and the command of all Russian troops in the Caspian lands was entrusted to Levashov, and all the papers that Rumyantsev had were to be transferred to General Venedier.

Arriving in Moscow on November 12, 1730, he was very kindly received by the new Empress [Peter II died from January 18 to 19, 1730, Anna Ioannovna ascended the throne on January 25, 1730], which, by decree on November 27, 1730, “promoted the lieutenant general and guard of the Preobrazhensky regiment, Major Rumyantsev, to the same regiment as lieutenant colonel and as its adjutant general.” But, a man of the Petrine temperament, who loved everything Russian, alien to luxury and delicacy, active, devoted to the fatherland, as Rumyantsev was, could not correspond to the order established at the court, where Duke Biron and other Germans dominated, and therefore it is very natural that he soon had a clash with the brother of the all-powerful temporary worker, which brought sad consequences for him in a completely different matter. The Empress had the intention of offering Rumyantsev the position of President of the Chamber Collegium. Rumyantsev refused, saying that from an early age, being a soldier, he knew nothing about finance, did not know how to invent means to satisfy luxury, etc. and, of course, he rashly expressed a lot of things that were unpleasant for the Empress about the new order at court, as a result of which she ordered him to leave and then ordered his arrest and trial by the Senate, which on May 19, 1731 sentenced him to death. The queen, out of mercy, spared his life, replaced his execution with exile to the Kazan province, depriving him of his ranks and the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky and taking away the 20,000 rubles previously awarded to him.

Rumyantsev with his entire family was sent to the village of Cheborchino, Alatyr province, where he lived for more than three years under the strict supervision of Captain Shipov, who, according to the instructions given to him, had to be with him constantly, not allow anyone to see him, and read everything he received. letters and copying copies from them, send them to St. Petersburg, keep daily notes about everything that happens in Rumyantsev’s house, monitor his expenses, even petty expenses and household expenses, which the latter could not make without Shipov’s permission. Receiving nothing from the treasury, Rumyantsev lived on the funds available to him and his wife, who sold her property for urgent needs.

Rumyantsev lived in such solitude for more than four years, and only at the end of July 1735, probably at the request of the relatives and friends of Countess Matveeva, was a decree issued on July 28 that Alexander Rumyantsev was granted the Astrakhan governorship, in place of the elderly Ivan Izmailov, Moreover, Rumyantsev complains about his former rank of lieutenant general and holder of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky. Rumyantsev barely had time to send a letter of gratitude to Anna Ioannovna on August 20, when, in the meantime, a new decree on August 12 was appointed ruler of the Kazan province and chief commander of the troops designated to stop the Bashkir entanglements. He was given decrees and instructions on how to deal with the Bashkirs, and Kirilov's reports about this uprising were communicated, and Kirilov was ordered to follow Rumyantsev's proposals and orders in everything related to Bashkir involvements, and to act relentlessly in everything. Rumyantsev already assumed his new duties on September 19th and in October of the same year he reported from Menzelinsk about the founding of the Orenburg fortress. He sent out “reasonable universals” throughout Bashkiria, with whom, as well as through his actions and treatment of the Bashkirs, he soon achieved that the main rebels confessed to him and swore an oath according to their law. At the same time, he, together with Kirilov, drew up a detailed plan for the complete calming of the Bashkirs and sent it with Kirilov to St. Petersburg for approval. Rumyantsev, based on the fact that the main reason for the rebellion of the Bashkirs was Tevkelev’s harsh and illegal actions towards them, was afraid to further agitate the Bashkirs with strict measures to pacify the rebels (which Kirilov insisted on) and believed, in the absence of also sufficient troops and the necessary guides, to leave the rebels until the most convenient time in silence, because “it is impossible to bring them to loyalty to the state and the imposition of taxes on them quickly without any indignation,” but gradual preparations must be made for this. The Empress, having approved this plan, ordered Kirilov to come to Rumyantsev in Menzelinsk and discuss measures to finally calm the Bashkirs.

With the draft of these measures, Kirilov was sent to St. Petersburg, and meanwhile, in 1736, Rumyantsev, hoping that everything was quiet, went from Menzelinsk to Kazan to rule the province. But as soon as he arrived in this city, he received news of a new and significant involvement of the Bashkirs on the river. Deme (a large tributary of the Belaya River) and adjacent areas. Rumyantsev quickly returned and moved towards the river. Deme with the army, where he carried out searches against the gangs of thieves. At the same time, Kirilov returned with decrees approving Rumyantsev’s idea of ​​​​the Bashkirs and giving him full power to put an end to all Bashkir entanglements, which, having subsided on the river. Deme, arose in the direction of Ufa, under the leadership of two rebels - Akai and Kilmyak. Rumyantsev moved towards them and on June 29 was subjected to a strong attack from them. Rumyantsev lost 180 people killed and 60 wounded in this case; the rebels stole all his horses and retired to the mountains. Rumyantsev followed them, but could not overtake them; he returned to Menzelinsk on August 29, where he found a new decree of Her Majesty dated July 13, 1736 that Major Khrushchev should be on the guard at the Bashkir commission, and he, Rumyantsev, having given the command, should follow to the main army operating against Turks under the command of Field Marshal Count Munnich.

Rumyantsev left Menzelinsk on October 14, 1736 and in January 1737 arrived in Glukhov, where he received a decree appointing him to Little Russia, to replace Prince Baryatinsky, who was required to move to Moscow. Soon after this, by decree of January 22, 1737, Rumyantsev was promoted to full general and enlisted in the army of Field Marshal Minich, according to his recommendation. Rumyantsev was not slow to express gratitude for such royal mercy and took up the affairs of Little Russia, mainly the affairs of supplying the army with everything necessary according to its requirements for the upcoming campaign. But soon Baryatinsky returned and, having taken over the management of Little Russia, took back all matters from Rumyantsev, who already in 1737 took part in preparations for the second campaign of Count Minich. During this campaign, he took part in the capture of Ochakov, being the division commander.

At the end of the campaign, Rumyantsev returned on November 16, 1739 with the regiments entrusted to him to winter quarters in Pereyaslavl, which he was not slow to inform Biron about. At the same time, he petitioned the almighty Duke to send his 13-year-old son - the future field marshal - to Sweden or Denmark to our embassies (ministers) to train him in practice, with the assignment, if possible, of a salary "for my lack." At the same time, A.I. Rumyantsev added that “I did not accept this intention for any benefit, except from now on for him, my son, so that he would be fit for the high service of Her Majesty.”

These continuous and lengthy campaigns of Minich extremely separated Rumyantsev from the direct control of Little Russia, about which, however, very favorable reviews have reached us. Thus, according to Bantysh-Kamensky, by his behavior he acquired complete power of attorney and goodwill from everyone. Under him, polite, free and well-behaved behavior among Little Russians began and spread far, increasing under his successor, General Keith. Rumyantsev’s command, in terms of his personal qualities, was meek, fair for the Little Russians and comforting, as Georgy Konissky states. Under Rumyantsev, his favorite, clerk general Andrei Bezborodko (father of the future great businessman Catherine II), was of great importance in the affairs of Little Russia, distinguished by his abilities: he took the local administration into his hands and contributed greatly to the final demoralization of the lower ranks, who received positions exclusively from his hands.

From Kyiv with the help Moors Shuvalova Rumyantsev’s wife kept in touch with the disgraced Tsarevna Elizabeth.

In 1740, a decree was passed by which Rumyantsev was appointed stadtholder, and in his place Major General of the Izmailovsky Regiment, Major Shipov, was ordered to serve, and soon after that Rumyantsev was granted a stone house in Moscow. At the same time, in fulfillment of one of the conditions of the peace with Turkey just concluded on September 7 (18), 1739, he was placed at the head of the great embassy, ​​which was to be sent to Constantinople. Rumyantsev, extremely pleased with this, wrote a letter of gratitude to the Empress for the flattering appointment and for the valuable award. He was summoned to St. Petersburg and took part in the preparation of the embassy, ​​which was quite numerous [In Rumyantsev’s retinue, in addition to the secretary and marshal of the embassy, ​​a priest with a clergyman, a doctor with apprentices and translators, there were up to 200 grenadiers, 12 nobles of the embassy, ​​36 lackeys, 12 haiduks, several trumpeters, huntsmen, musicians, many carts with luggage, many horses of all kinds, etc., in a word - a whole caravan that stopped at camp every day for overnight stays and rest]. Rumyantsev was allotted 15,000 rubles for lifting and crews, assigned a thousand rubles a month from the day of his departure from Russia, and 20,000 rubles for various emergency expenses. In addition, he was given a ceremonial carriage for entry, a canopy, chairs and a ceremonial tent, silver services and all kinds of dishes for treating the Turkish authorities and a lot of rich soft junk for distribution as gifts in Turkey.

On May 16th he was given the Highest Decree that he was being sent in the character of an Ambassador Extraordinary Plenipotentiary, obliged in the name of Her Majesty to strongly reassure the Turkish Government that on our part the decrees of the world would be firmly and inviolably observed in all articles, protected and that no contrary behavior would ever be done. . The ambassadors agreed to make their exchange at the very Polish borders, on this side of the Dnieper, and the Turkish ambassador would be received and accompanied to St. Petersburg by the brother of A. I. Rumyantsev, a general and senator N. I. Rumyantsev. But in Nemirov he received news from St. Petersburg about the death of Empress Anna Ioannovna, and then about the birth of her grandson Prince John Antonovich; He also learned about the Haidamaks who appeared on the path ahead of him, which prompted him to move to Uman and then stand on the river. Sinyukha, where the camp of the Turkish commissars was also located, as well as General Keith and General N.I. Rumyantsev, who held a solemn meeting for A.I. Rumyantsev. - Appointed to meet A.I. Rumyantsev and escort him to Constantinople, Numan Pasha also soon approached this place; After negotiations with him, Rumyantsev set off. In Pravody, he received a decree on November 28 with a manifesto about the overthrow of Biron and the accession to the throne of the daughter of the Great Transformer - Imp. Elizabeth, swore in all those who were with him and then, on January 1, 1741, began the difficult transition through the Turkish Balkans. Rumyantsev’s ceremonial entry into Constantinople took place only on March 17th. He was accommodated in the old house of the Russian Embassy, ​​and his retinue was given ten of the best houses - “but you are unlikely to be satisfied,” Cancioni wrote. A reception audience took place with the vizier on March 26, and then with the Sultan, a very solemn one. None of those who were here, knowing the pride of the Turks, thought that there would be such a reception, “especially since this was not even given to the Austrian Ambassador Ullefeld,” added Rumyantsev, reporting on the same day to St. Petersburg about the audience given to him.

After this, Rumyantsev stayed in Constantinople for more than six months, busy with negotiations on the instructions entrusted to him, namely: 1) on the recognition of Her Majesty’s title of Imperial, 2) on the extradition of our compatriots who were captured by the Turks, 3) on the choice of places for our construction of new fortresses near the Turkish border and 4) the demolition of fortifications in Azov. At the same time, negotiations were underway on all these points in St. Petersburg, with the Turkish ambassador who arrived in our capital, ending in a mutual agreement expressed in four articles, which were communicated to Rumyantsev, who easily received the Sultan’s consent to them. On August 26th he was invited to the Grand Vizier, and, in the presence of the entire Turkish Ministry, with mutual respect for all kinds of courtesy, he was presented with a convention consisting of three points, by which the Porte henceforth recognized the Imperial Highness of Her Majesty and her surname; Russia and Türkiye pledged to carry out an exchange of prisoners and release them immediately; in addition, Russia pledged to really destroy and undermine the Azov fortress.

On September 5, on the Empress’s name day, as well as on the birthday of His Highness, Rumyantsev invited a large and noble society of more than 200 people; he had a big lunch, a ball, a dinner and a big illumination. He believed that he would not stay long in Constantinople, hoped to leave at the beginning of October and negotiated about this with the Porte, which was delaying his departure, wanting to finally agree with Russia on the many matters remaining under the treaty that were not fulfilled on both sides, mainly on the choice of places for construction of new fortresses. But all this was entrusted to the special commissioners. Rumyantsev, while still in Constantinople, received news of Sweden’s declaration of war on Russia and on September 25th of our victory over the Swedes. Rumyantsev did not hesitate to perform a solemn service in the Greek church.

Finally, having received a vacation audience with the Sultan, he went back to his fatherland and on the way learned that on December 12, 1741 he was awarded the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called. Arriving in Moscow in May 1742, he took part in the coronation of Empress Elisaveta Petrovna, and then in conferences that took place with the Swedish deputies and Baron Nolken, mainly about French mediation in our affairs with Sweden. But already at the end of June, Rumyantsev, assigned to the Vyborg corps and in Ingermanland, left Moscow - as it turned out, to bring some sense to the spirit of riot that manifested itself in our army stationed in Finland. Upon departure, the Empress granted Rumyantsev, on June 2, 1742, a rich snuffbox with diamonds, money 35,000 rubles. and appointed him colonel of the Preobrazhensky Guards Regiment, in which he began his service under her parent.

Rumyantsev, while still in Vyborg, received a decree on August 16, 1742 appointing him as a representative at the congress in Abo for peace negotiations with Sweden. As you know, the war of 1741-43 with Sweden ended quite quickly with the conquest of all Finland by our troops up to and including the shores of the Gulf of Bothnia. Seeing the impossibility of continuing the war, the Swedes tried to begin negotiations for peace in Abo, for which A.I. Rumyantsev and Lyuberas (who was then in Moscow) were appointed from our side, and the decree given to him on August 16 expressed the desire to expand our borders along the river Kimin (i.e. Kyumen) near the city of Friedrichsham, having the right to further extend the claim. The successes of our weapons (military operations continued during the peace negotiations) prompted a new decree addressed to Rumyantsev and Lyuberas - dated September 20, in which the conditions of peaceful negotiations and degrees must of course be abolished, and negotiations must begin in no other way than what he owns. It was added that there would always be time to make concessions later. The delimitation of lands is now difficult to determine due to the lack of accurate and detailed maps of Finland here (in St. Petersburg), which should be obtained from Lassi (our main army commander in Finland). Rumyantsev was also instructed to seek that the Empress’s nephew, the Duke of Holstein, be elected heir to the Swedish throne. He was given extensive authority to negotiate and conclude peace, which Her Majesty, by decree of December 20, pledged to test and ratify everything.

Rumyantsev arrived in Abo on the evening of the 23rd, and, after exchanging visits, opened the first meeting of the congress on February 7 with a speech in French. Then there were long peace negotiations. The Swedish commissioners eventually came to an agreement with Rumyantsev. Russia returned to Sweden a much larger part of Finland than was initially expected (namely, the border of Russia with Sweden was transferred from Vyborg only to the Kyumen River, and Russia renounced all the lands conquered in Finland and retained only the Kyumene-Gorod province of the conquered ones) and Neishlot with the district. Bishop of Lubsky, Adolf Friedrich, brother of the heir to the Russian throne, Peter Fedorovich, was elected to the Swedish throne. The peace treaty was signed on August 7, 1743 and sent immediately to St. Petersburg, where it was ratified, followed by an exchange of ratifications on the 27th and the issuance of generous awards to the Swedish Commissioners. Having concluded peace, Rumyantsev remained in Abo to negotiate with the Swedish commissioners on various secondary issues, which, however, were later considered more convenient to agree on in St. Petersburg. He still had to make orders for the delimitation of lands between Russia and Sweden, which was entrusted to Prince H.V. Repnin. At the end of this, Rumyantsev received a decree on September 1 to return to St. Petersburg.

Arriving in St. Petersburg on the evening of October 2, I visited Her Majesty that same evening. During this return, he did not receive any reward for the congress, probably because the solemn celebration of peace with Sweden was scheduled in Moscow in 1744, where the Empress and her entire court went [At the same time, June 29 The solemn betrothal of Grand Duke Peter Fedorovich to Princess Ekaterina Alekseevna of Anhalt-Zerbt took place.] At this celebration, Rumyantsev, on July 15, 1744, was elevated with his descendants to the dignity of count, and he was given a charter for this title, indicating the merits rendered by both himself and his ancestors, and was also given a coat of arms with the well-known inscription solum armis, i.e. “not only with weapons.” At the same time, the Empress expressed the desire that the said coat of arms would remain inviolable at all times. In addition, Rumyantsev was granted 84⅜ hectares of land in the Baltic region, and his wife Maria Andreevna received from Empress Elizabeth, who was friendly with her even when she was crown princess, the title of lady of state, and, since her husband was elevated to the dignity of a count, she became a countess and acquired very great influence at court thanks to her “intelligence and tact”: the French envoy Dalion considered it necessary to pay her a pension, the English ambassador Veitch unsuccessfully tried to win her over to his side (but Rumyantseva and her husband adhered to the pro-French Shuvalov party)

In 1744, Empress Elizabeth instructed Maria Andreevna to manage the court of the future Catherine II, still Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst (as a trusted person of Her Majesty, for supervision and guardianship of the Princess, with the obligation to give the Empress a detailed report on everything she noticed) - and Rumyantsev on this They were very afraid of the “small yard”.

Catherine II recalls:

During these masquerades, it was noticed that the old Countess Rumyantseva began to have frequent conversations with the Empress, and that the latter was very cold with her mother, and it was easy to guess that Rumyantseva was arming the Empress against her mother and instilling in her the anger that she herself had harbored since her trip to Ukraine to the whole cart that I spoke about above; if she did not do this before, it was because she was too busy with a big game, which continued until then and which she always gave up last, but when this game ended, her anger could not be contained.

She accompanied Empress Elizabeth on a trip from Moscow to Razumovsky in Glukhov in 1744, and then to St. Petersburg, was with her at Razumovsky’s feast in Gostilitsy on her name day, September 5, 1745, etc. After the princess and the great Prince Pyotr Fedorovich was married, Rumyantseva was dismissed from the post of chamberlain and was ordered to return to her husband. It was believed that the reason for this was the hostility of the mother of Grand Duchess Catherine, Johanna of Holstein-Gottorp, as well as Chancellor Bestuzhev-Ryumin. But Rumyantseva retained her position as a person friendly with the Empress.

Upon returning to St. Petersburg, there were rumors about the appointment of Count A.I. Rumyantsev as vice-chancellor, which the famous Lestocq really wanted, but this did not materialize, and Rumyantsev, without having a special government position, was among the senators, listed among the troops of the Ukrainian division. He lived either in St. Petersburg or in Moscow, taking part from time to time in the meetings of the Council in 1745 and 1746. during discussions of the plan for the upcoming military operations in Prussia, in which Rumyantsev himself, due to his old age, no longer took direct part. In 1748, the Empress, out of special mercy for him, in consideration of his old age and poor health, dismissed him from both Senate affairs and military commands, allowing him to live with his wife in those places where he could invent. He appeared at court from time to time, attended gala dinners and celebrations of the Orders of St. Andrew the First-Called and Alexander Nevsky in 1748, was at the wedding at the court of maid of honor Yaguzhinskaya with Count Efimovsky on February 14, 1748, and had the good fortune of receiving Her Majesty in Moscow in his home On February 28, 1749 [From the above, it is obvious that A.I. Rumyantsev could not have died in 1745, as indicated on his tombstone.] and shortly after that, on March 4 of the same year, he died almost unexpectedly. He is buried in the Chrysostom Monastery, under the Cathedral of St. John Chrysostom, and the tombstone shows that he lived 68 years, 2 months and 3 days.

If A. I. Rumyantsev cannot be counted among the outstanding statesmen who leave long traces of his fruitful activities, nevertheless, he is an unselfish and selfless executor of orders and plans from above, which he led without sparing his strength and always ardently defending the interests of the fatherland ; he did not shy away from the tasks assigned to him and always turned out to be a faithful and accurate performer. According to V.A. Nashchokin, in his rank of general he had only the courage of a good soldier, without disposition, while Field Marshal Minikh, who knew him well and closely, wrote in 1737: “still has all the strength that is needed for field service ", and is healthy, but he is more inclined towards civil service than military service. With pacification, it will be possible to entrust him with the main command in Ukraine." According to Dolgorukov, who, of course, did not personally know Rumyantsev, the latter was simply a spy (?), but had a great mind, was a subtle man, with great courtly and diplomatic dexterity. He was a pleasant conversationalist, very kind and helpful, and had an amazing memory, which made his conversation very entertaining. He had a kind heart - and this reduced the number of his enemies and disarmed his rivals.

After Rumyantseva was widowed, she remained at court and continued to live extravagantly, sometimes losing at cards, which is why she often turned for financial help to Elizabeth, and then to Catherine, at whose court, as the oldest court lady and contemporary of Peter , and then the field marshal’s mother, was highly respected. Count Segur wrote about the hostess: “Her body, broken by paralysis, alone exposed old age; her head was full of life, her mind shone with gaiety, her imagination bore the stamp of youth. Her conversation was as interesting and instructive as a well-written story.”

Catherine II, although she well remembered how Rumyantseva tormented her, being the manager of her court, having ascended the throne, she made her chamberlain (June 10, 1776), which was facilitated by the merits of her son-commander. After he concluded the Kuchuk-Kainardzhi Peace, she was awarded the Order of St. Catherine (June 12, 1775).

Later, in her “Notes,” Catherine II will not spare Maria Andreevna, portraying her as an evil gossip, a card gambler, “who got up from her chair only for natural reasons,” and in addition, “the most wasteful woman in Russia” and a great lover of undeserved gifts.

Mituar. Maria Andreevna Rumyantseva (1699-1788) (formerly 1788)

The Countess was very often present at various dinners, weddings and celebrations at court; on the day of the first wedding of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich (1773), she, who still danced very well, asked the Grand Duke to give her the honor of dancing with her, since she at one time had the honor of dancing with his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father, and then , many years later, at the Court Ball on November 24, 1781, on the Empress’s name day, she walked in Polish with one of Catherine II’s grandchildren, Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich.

According to the memoirs of contemporaries, she was distinguished by extraordinary kindness and was ready to help everyone. She was among the first who, in 1763, began to accept foundlings and street children in her home. She was involved in affairs on the estate of her son Pavlino (modern Zheleznodorozhny), which he received as a dowry for his wife, including overseeing the construction of the church by the architect Blank.

On September 22, 1778, she was granted chief chamberlain of the Imperial Court. She survived one daughter, Countess P. A. Bruce, then her other daughter, E. A. Leontyeva, who lived with her mother, died.

The Venezuelan traveler and politician Count Miranda, who visited St. Petersburg in the summer of 1787, talks in detail about Maria Andreevna in his memoirs. At that time, M.A. Rumyantseva did not live in her house, but nearby, in the Summer Palace of Peter I, where people close to the court often settled in the summer. After their first date, the count wrote in his diary:

“The old lady told me many details of the private life of Peter the Great and showed me... the house that this emperor built and lived in, who said to his wife: “For now, let’s live like good Dutch citizens, and when I manage my affairs, I’ll build you a palace.” , and then we will live as princes should live.” The old woman showed me a crucifix, which Peter I himself had carved with a knife on the door of the hall, as well as a certain little thing made of wood - a gift to the same Peter from the Elector of Saxony - with three dials, of which one shows the time, and the other two indicate the direction and strength of the wind, for connected to a weather vane placed on the roof of the house. He looked around the room in which Peter slept, the workshop where he worked on the lathe, etc., and never ceased to be amazed at the countess’s vigor, her clothes, jewelry and enviable memory, and yet this woman is already a hundred years old.” Everything Miranda wrote down is true, except for the age of the narrator. Perhaps the old woman showed innocent coquetry in this case, adding years to herself?

In Countess Rumyantseva, whom the inquisitive foreigner visited several times during his stay in St. Petersburg, he found a real treasure, never tired of listening and writing down her endless stories about the past. Unfortunately, her compatriots did not show the same interest in either the personality of the old countess or her memories, confirming Pushkin’s famous saying that “we are lazy and not curious.”

Maria Andreevna died on May 4, 1788; buried in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. G. R. Derzhavin dedicated one of his odes to her - “On the death of Countess Rumyantseva”,

Rumyantseva! She shone
Intelligence, breed, beauty,
And in old age I gained love
Everyone has a kind soul;
She firmly closed
Marital gaze, friends, children;
Served seven monarchs
She wore the badges of their honor.

Countess Maria Rumyantseva was loved by Peter the Great, shone at Catherine’s court, gave advice to Elizabeth, terrified the Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst and served exile in the Mordovian village of Cheberchin. Today, the name of the once famous and respected lady in St. Petersburg is not mentioned in history books. She was eclipsed by the glory of her son, the outstanding 18th-century commander Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky. Alexander and Maria Rumyantsev lived in Cheberchin until July 1735. The local population remembered them with an unkind word for a long time...

Why the military leader was considered the son of the sovereign and how the count's family ended up in the Mordovian outback, I found out Olga Platonova. Love of Peter the Great

The graceful and educated daughter of one of the most progressive people of Peter's time, Andrei Matveev, grew up in Vienna and The Hague, and then often became the object of everyone's attention at assemblies in the Russian capital. The young beauty was fluent in French, could speak interestingly and lively, and was considered an excellent dancer. It is not surprising that the countess was noticed by Peter I himself. Contemporaries have preserved memories that the tsar was very jealous of his favorite and once threatened to marry her “to a man who will be able to keep her strict and will not allow her to have lovers other than him alone...”

The emperor soon fulfilled his promise. His groom was his 40-year-old orderly, Alexander Rumyantsev. The girl's father could not resist the sovereign's wishes and reluctantly agreed to an unequal marriage. The wedding took place in July 1720 in the presence of the Tsar and Tsarina, who generously gifted the newlyweds. Rumyantsev received the rank of brigadier. Subsequently, he rarely saw his wife, as he was constantly traveling. Nevertheless, in the fall of 1721 the Countess gave birth to a daughter, two years later - a second, and in 1725 - a son, Peter. According to the widespread version, the boy was born in the Transnistrian village of Stroentsy, where Maria Rumyantseva was waiting for her husband to return from Turkey after the death of the emperor. According to another, in Moscow, and his father was not Rumyantsev at all, but Peter I.

Rumyantsev A.I.

M.A. Rumyantseva

Cheberchino can be safely added to the list of tourist attractive places in Mordovia

With the arrival of the exiled boyars, the measured life of the Mordovian village came to an end. The soldiers and officers sent to supervise Rumyantsev lived at the expense of the peasants and often looted: they stole chickens and vegetables from the gardens. From idleness they often got drunk, started fights among themselves and raped local women. As Aleksey Kleyankin, a native of the village and Saransk local historian, wrote, the girls were afraid of the military like fire. Alexander Rumyantsev also did not hesitate to rob the peasants, who demanded a thousand rubles per year of quitrent, 10 pounds (163.8 kg) of honey and butter, 130 pounds of pork, 200 chicken carcasses, as well as many sheep, geese and other livestock. “The Rumyantsevs lived in a house that was built under the previous owner Pleshcheev, but much was added to the previous buildings,” wrote Kleyankin. — A third upper room was built, and the two old ones were rearranged. In front of the windows of the house, two omshaniks (cellars) were built, lined with brick inside, in which the wine was constantly settled. One of the entries says that there are 9 barrels of wine in the omshanik - about 274 buckets. In the master’s yard there were 3 horses for traveling, 24 cows, 9 heifers, 5 bulls, 32 pigs, 40 piglets, 34 “migrants and flyers” (calves aged from 4 to 10 months).”

Necessary household items and clothing were brought to the Rumyantsevs by courtyard people from Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Simbirsk and Alatyr, where peasants were regularly sent on their carts. Thus, life in exile for Countess Maria turned out to be boring, but well-fed and measured, which could not be said about the “breadwinners” of the family. Residents of Cheberchin and other estates often came to the manor’s house with complaints about “the hardships of their orphan life,” but the soldiers drove them away. In one of the petitions, the peasants wrote: “Sovereign Alexander Ivanovich, they are beating and weeping from your Arzamas, sir, the estates of the village of Uvarov and the village of Chernukha orphans. According to the decree sent from you, you demand from us, your orphans, table supplies, 8 poods of honey, 4 poods of cow butter, 30 poods of pork meat, for 80 rams in money, 24 geese, 130 Russian chickens, 3200 eggs. Of the above-mentioned table supplies, when we, orphans, were owned by our former sovereign Vasily Semyonovich Zmeev, we did not pay for honey, sheep and money for them... Have mercy, Sovereign Alexander Ivanovich, they did not charge us, your orphans, the above-mentioned table supplies, honey and for sheep continue not to rule with money... and give a decree so that we will not be completely ruined by that payment...” The general did not give in to the timid demands of the peasants. This is evidenced by subsequent complaints that were received in his name until July 1735, when the exile came to an end. At the request of influential relatives of Rumyantsev’s wife, he was first appointed governor of Astrakhan, and a month later - of Kazan province. The rank of lieutenant general and the Order of St. were returned. Alexander Nevsky was entrusted with commanding the troops that were supposed to suppress the Bashkir uprising.

But the life of the Cheberchy residents did not become any easier. When leaving, the landowner left the previous quitrent in force and obliged the peasants to annually deliver money, honey, meat, lard and other products to Moscow in early January, and by August - at least 100 sheep, 200 chickens and wine. He willingly took money from those who could not deliver, for example, a ram. In addition, every summer the 15 most hard-working men of Cheberchin had to work for four months completely free of charge in the villages of Rumyantsev near Moscow.

Maria Rumyantseva and her children left the Mordovian village only in July 1736, when her husband became the ruler of Little Russia and was assigned to Minich’s army. First, the Countess moved to Kyiv, from where she sent “bows and gifts” to Tsarevna Elizabeth, and four years later she moved to St. Petersburg. By that time, Alexander Rumyantsev had managed to regain the favor of Empress Anna Ioannovna, who gave him a house in Moscow and appointed him ambassador to Constantinople. But real glory and honor came to the Rumyantsevs after the accession of Elizabeth, who gave her father’s favorite orderly the title of count, and awarded her friend Maria Andreevna the title of lady of state.

Rumyantseva gained enormous influence at court, which was also facilitated by “great tact, knowledge of people, the ability to win them over and an attractive appearance.” Representatives of foreign powers, knowing about her high position, tried to win her over.

For example, the French envoy Dalion considered it necessary to pay the countess a pension from his court. The Englishman Veitch also presented various gifts, winning her over to his side. Maria Andreevna often accompanied Elizabeth on various trips, including from Moscow to Glukhov to see Count Razumovsky in 1744. In the same year, she received the appointment “to be with the Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst,” who arrived in Russia to marry the heir to the throne, Peter III. As the empress's confidant, she had to report everything she saw and heard. “Rumyantseva performed her duties so diligently that at the princess’s court they feared her like the plague,” says Sergei Bakhmustov. — The future Empress Catherine II harbored a grudge against the countess, so she dismissed her from the position of chamberlain and ordered her to return to her husband immediately after her wedding to the prince. But at the same time, Elizaveta continued to help Rumyantseva and consult with her on various issues..."

Widowed in 1749, the Countess remained at court and continued to live in grand style. Guests constantly gathered in her house, danced, and played cards. Rumyantseva lost a lot, so she often turned to Elizabeth for help, and then to Catherine II, who over time forgot about her previous grievances. This was also facilitated by the merits of his son, Pyotr Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky. In June 1775, she even awarded the Countess the Order of St. Catherine, and a year later she was appointed chamberlain.

Maria Andreevna was a regular participant in various dinners, weddings and celebrations. On the day of Tsarevich Paul's first wedding, the countess invited him to dance, since at one time she had been awarded such an honor by his great-grandfather, grandfather and father. By the way, many years later, at a court ball on November 24, 1781, 82-year-old Rumyantseva walked on the parquet with Catherine II’s grandson, Prince Alexander! Despite the illness and paralysis that overtook the countess after the death of her eldest daughters, she retained “the vivacity of her mind and imagination” until the end of her days.

Many contemporaries noted the kindness and responsiveness of Maria Rumyantseva, who helped everyone as much as possible. The news of her death on May 4, 1788 shocked St. Petersburg. The court poet Derzhavin even dedicated an ode to the countess:

“She shone with intelligence,
breed, beauty,
And in old age love
got everyone
kind soul.

She firmly closed
Married gaze, friends,
children;
Served seven monarchs
She wore the badges of their honor.”

Rumyantseva Maria Andreevna Mironova, Rumyantseva Maria Andreevna Golubkina
Maria Matveeva

Countess Maria Andreevna Rumyantseva(Rumyantsova), born Matveeva(1699-1788) - mother of the commander Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky, according to rumors, she was born from Peter the Great, lady of state, chamberlain.

• 1 Biography
  • 1.1 With Peter
  • 1.2 After Peter
  • 1.3 Widow
• 2 Children
• 3 Notes

Biography

Maria Rumyantseva came from an ancient noble family: she was the daughter of the actual privy councilor of Count Andrei Matveev (1666-1728) from her first marriage to Anna Stepanovna Anichkova (1666-1699), and on her paternal side she was the granddaughter of the boyar Artamon Matveev. She received a European education and spent the first years of her life in Vienna and The Hague, where her father served as ambassador until 1710.

With Peter

She spoke French fluently, danced well, and had beauty and liveliness that attracted the attention of Peter I.

At the age of 19, on July 10, 1720, with a rich dowry given by the Tsar, she was married to the Tsar’s orderly, Alexander Ivanovich Rumyantsev, who received the rank of brigadier and had recently distinguished himself in the investigation of the case of Tsarevich Alexei. The tsar granted the groom “considerable villages” confiscated from the executed A.V. Kikin. The newlyweds settled in a house on the Red Canal (site of house No. 3 on the Field of Mars). Peter I gave Rumyantsev in 1724 a large plot of land on the left bank of the Fontanka, near the road to Tsarskoe Selo. A one-story country house was built there and a garden was laid out (now Fontanka River embankment, 116). In this wooden house, on February 18, 1756, the Church of Our Lady of the Sign was consecrated. (It is curious that the tsar’s mistress, but less successful, was another relative of Artamon Matveev - Maria Hamilton, the cousin of his wife Evdokia Grigorievna Hamilton, sometimes also mistakenly called his “granddaughter”).

Following this, she gave birth to three daughters. In 1725, her husband was in Constantinople, and then on the Persian border for demarcation, Maria remained in Moscow, where she gave birth to her fourth child, a son baptized in honor of the Tsar by Peter Alexandrovich, who was destined to become a famous commander. Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich reports that the boy’s father was not his legal spouse, but Peter himself; Valishevsky agrees with the same legend. It is difficult to judge the reliability of this legend, however, I. I. Golikov in his anecdotes about Peter the Great gives it indirect confirmation. The boy turned out to be the last of the godsons of the emperor who died shortly after. Empress Catherine became the godmother.

Rumyantseva had influence at court, thanks to gifts she assisted the French envoy Campredon, and was on friendly terms with Princess Elizabeth.

After Peter

Under Anna Ivanovna, for dislike of the Germans and protest against luxury at court (according to some instructions - for refusing to take the position of president of the Chamber Board offered to him; or for beating Biron, who was convicted of embezzlement), Rumyantsev was deprived of his ranks and exiled to Kazan village. When her husband fell into disgrace and was deprived of his ranks, Maria Andreevna, along with him and her children, was sent to live in an Alatyr village, where they spent about three years.

In 1735, Rumyantsev was restored to the rank of lieutenant general and made Astrakhan and then Kazan governor and appointed commander of the troops sent against the rebellious Bashkirs. 1738 Rumyantsev was appointed ruler of Little Russia, and the family moved to Kyiv, from where, with the help of Mavra Shuvalova, Rumyantseva maintained contact with the equally disgraced Crown Princess Elizabeth. Soon her husband was transferred to the active army, and in 1740 he was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Constantinople.

In 1740, Rumyantsev was appointed commissioner for the congress in Abo, during the celebration of the peace concluded there, Rumyantseva received the title of lady of state from the new Empress Elizabeth, and, since her husband was elevated to the rank of count, she became a countess and acquired very great influence at court thanks to her “intelligence and tact”: she contributed to the success of the order of the Swedish general Dühring, the French envoy Dalion considered it necessary to pay her a pension, the English ambassador Veitch unsuccessfully tried to win her over to his side (but Rumyantseva and her husband adhered to the pro-French Shuvalov party).

In 1744, Empress Elizabeth instructed her to manage the court of the future Catherine II, still the Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst (as a trusted person of Her Majesty, for supervision and guardianship of the Princess, with the obligation to give the Empress a detailed report on everything she noticed) - and to Rumyantsev on this “ small yard” they were very afraid.

Catherine II recalls:

She accompanied Empress Elizabeth on a trip from Moscow to Razumovsky in Glukhov in 1744, and then to St. Petersburg, was with her at Razumovsky’s feast in Gostilitsy on her name day, September 5, 1745, etc. After the princess and the great Prince Pyotr Fedorovich was married, Rumyantseva was dismissed from the post of chamberlain and was ordered to return to her husband. It was believed that the reason for this was the hostility of Grand Duchess Catherine's mother, Johanna of Holstein-Gottorp, as well as Chancellor Bestuzhev-Ryumin. But Rumyantseva retained her position as a person friendly with the Empress.

Rumyantseva! She shone
Intelligence, breed, beauty,
And in old age I gained love
Everyone has a kind soul;
She firmly closed
Marital gaze, friends, children;
Served seven monarchs
She wore the badges of their honor.

Gavrila Derzhavin

Widow

In 1749, Rumyantseva was widowed, but remained at court and continued to live extravagantly, sometimes losing at cards, which is why she often turned to Elizabeth for financial help, and then to Catherine, at whose court, as the oldest court lady and contemporary of Peter, and then the field marshal's mother, was highly respected. Count Segur wrote about the hostess: “Her body, broken by paralysis, alone exposed old age; her head was full of life, her mind shone with gaiety, her imagination bore the stamp of youth. Her conversation was as interesting and instructive as a well-written story.”

Catherine II, although she well remembered how Rumyantseva tormented her while being the manager of her court, having ascended the throne, made her chamberlain (June 10, 1776), which was facilitated by the merits of her son-commander. After he concluded the Kuchuk-Kainardzhi Peace, she was awarded the Order of St. Catherine (June 12, 1775).

The Countess was very often present at various dinners, weddings and celebrations at court; on the day of the first wedding of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich (1773), she, who still danced very well, asked the Grand Duke to give her the honor of dancing with her, since she at one time had the honor of dancing with his great-grandfather, grandfather, and father, and then , many years later, at the Court Ball on November 24, 1781, on the Empress’s name day, she walked in Polish with one of Catherine II’s grandchildren, Grand Duke Alexander Pavlovich.

The elderly countess in the Hornung miniature

According to the memoirs of contemporaries, she was distinguished by extraordinary kindness and was ready to help everyone. She was among the first who, in 1763, began to accept foundlings and street children in her home. She was involved in affairs on the estate of her son Pavlino (modern Zheleznodorozhny), which he received as a dowry for his wife, including overseeing the construction of the church by the architect Blank.

On September 22, 1778, she was granted chief chamberlain of the Imperial Court. She survived one daughter, Countess P. A. Bruce, then her other daughter, E. A. Leontyeva, who lived with her mother, died.

Died May 4, 1788; buried in the Annunciation Church of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. G. R. Derzhavin dedicated one of his odes to her - “On the death of Countess Rumyantseva,” written for Princess E. R. Dashkova; Derzhavin addressed Dashkova, who was extremely upset by her son’s marriage without her blessing, in contrast to Rumyantseva, who suffered many sorrows with indifference.

Children

• Ekaterina Alexandrovna (November 1721 - April 3, 1786), married to Lieutenant General N. M. Leontyev (1717-1769), the marriage was not happy. She separated from her husband and lived in her mother's house.
• Daria Alexandrovna (late 1723 or 1730 - 1809); 1st husband - Count Franz Joseph Waldstein (1719-1758), 2nd - Prince Yuri Nikitich Trubetskoy (1736-1811), son of the Prosecutor General Prince Nikita Yuryevich. Their daughter from their second marriage is P. Yu. Gagarina.
• Praskovya Alexandrovna (October 7, 1729 - April 17, 1786), friend of Catherine II, married to Count J. A. Bruce since 1751.
• Pyotr Alexandrovich (January 8, 1725 - 1796)

Praskovya

Notes

1. 1 2 3 Large biographical encyclopedia
2. The abolished Church of the MOTHER OF GOD “SIGN” in the house of gr. M. A. Rumyantseva
3. A.A. Matveev. Notes. Preface
4. Konstantin Valishevsky. Peter the Great
5. Golikov I. I. Acts of Peter the Great. T. XV. St. Petersburg, 1838. pp. 71-72.
6. Notes of Empress Catherine II. St. Petersburg, 1907. P. 57
7. Living chronicle of the century
8. Sukhareva O. V. Who was who in Russia from Peter I to Paul I, Moscow, 2005
9. Official website of the Zheleznodorozhny urban district
10. On the death of Countess Rumyantseva

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