Alexander Gavrilovich Remy (8 August 1809- 27 September 1871) was a Russian mayor-general, brother officer of Russian poet

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. Alexander Remy was born in 1809 in the city of

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into a Russian noble family Remy (family) of

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descent. The ancestor of Remy came to Russia in 1787, when the officer Jean-Gabriel Remy entered the Engineering Corps in

. Remy began his military service in cavalry in 1826. Until 1835 he served at the ''1st Bugsk

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regiment'', later captain of cavalry at the Uhlan Regiment in

, brother officer of

. Alexander Remy was appointed officer for special commissions at the headquarters of General Khomutov at Don Cossack Voisko and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in April, 1840. Remi left for

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in May, 1840, meeting in Moscow his friend

who was heading

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for

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. The cigar-case presented to Remy by Lermontov may be viewed at the ''Tarkhany'' museum (музей-заповедник «Тарханы»). Alexander Remy participated in several wars and was decorated with Order of St. Stanislaus of 2nd degree, Order of St. Vladimir of 1st degree (with a ribbon), Order of St. Anna of 3 degree (with ribbon), and a silver medal for courage. On the 25th anniversary of his military service, Remy was awarded with an

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of 4th degree. In 1868, he was promoted to the rank of mayor-general. After resignation, the general received several lands in Don Voisko Province (one of the villages was later named ''Removka''). Alexander Remy settled in

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, where he acquired several houses, including the mansion of the former Taganrog's governor Pyotr Papkov on ''Malaya Birzhevaya Ulitsa'' (now ''Ulitsa Schmidta''). Remy took an active part in the city affairs: he was member of the committee for the construction of

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and of the ''Charity society''. He died in 1871 in a train accident near

. The mansion of Alexander Remy housed the newly married couple of Pavel Chekhov and

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, the parents of Russian writer

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, who rented one of the rooms in 1854–1855. This gave Anton Chekhov the motif for his story "The House with an Attic" in 1896.

References

* Гаврюшкин О. "По старой Греческой", Таганрог, 2003 г. {{DEFAULTSORT:Remy, Alexander 19th-century military personnel from the Russian Empire Nobility from Saint Petersburg 1809 births 1871 deaths Military personnel from Saint Petersburg Railway accident deaths