Nikolai Yevgenyevich Lukash (; 11 December 1796 –

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and the fights against the

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Parentage

Lukash was the illegitimate son of Alexander Pavlovich

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, the future Emperor

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and one of his lovers, Sophia Sergeievna Vsevolozhskaya (19 November 1775 – 4/11 October 1848), daughter of Sergei Alekseyevich Vsevolozhsky (1751–1822) and wife Yekaterina Andreyevna Zinovyeva (1751–1836), who married Prince Ivan Sergeyevich Meshchersky (11 December 1775 – 17 March 1851), by whom she had an issue.

Biography

Already in 1807, he joined the military in the rank of

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, and he took part in fights against Napoleon's invasion of Russia. In 1817, Lukash was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. As the commanding officer of the Lutsk Grenadier Regiment, he took part in the

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where he was promoted

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of the Russian Army. In 1837, he was made chief of staff of the 6th Infantry Corps. In 1853, he quit military service and was made the governor of

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. In 1859, he became a member of Senate and continued in service of the Russian state in various parts of the empire, notably in the Caucasus. He died on 20 January 1868 ( O.S.) in Moscow and was buried at the

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Marriages and issue

He married firstly Princess Alexandra Lukanichna Guidianova (26 May 1804 – 23 February 1832/4), daughter of Prince Luka Stepanovich Guidianov and wife Maria Ilyinichna Isakova, and had four children: * Maria Nikolaievna Lukash (12 May 1821 – St. Petersburg, 16 July 1849), married Nikolai Mikhailovich Khitrovo (? – 17 November 1909) * Sergei Nikolaievich Lukash (ca. 1828 – ?), fl. 1856, a

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, retiring as a

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* Nikolai Nikolaievich Lukash (ca. 1829 – ?), fl. 1887 * Maria Nikolaievna Lukash (ca. 1830 – ?), married

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Alexander Sergeievich Komarov, and had one daughter: ** Maria Alexandrovna Komarova-Lukash (

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, 9 March 1855 –

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, 28 April 1928), married at

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on 7 January 1877 Count

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, (), and had issue He married secondly Princess Alexandra Mikhailovna Schakhovskaya (21 November 1806 – 29 January 1864), daughter of Prince Mikhail Aleksandrovich Shakhovskoy and wife Countess Yelisavyeta Sergeyevna Golovina, and had one son: * Mikhail Nikolaievich Lukash (ca. 1837 – ?), retired from his regiment in 1866, married, and had four children: ** Barbara Mikhailovna Lukash (1865 – ?), married Count Calogero Mazzoli ** Nikolai Mikhailovich Lukash (1867 – ?) ** Alexander Mikhailovich Lukash (1870 – ?) ** Mikhail Mikhailovich Lukash (1876 – ?)

Sources

* Jacques Ferrand. "Descendances naturelles des souverains et grands-ducs de Russie de 1792 à 1910"; Paris, 1995. * Jacques Ferrand. "Aperçu généalogique sur quelques descendances naturelles de grands-ducs des russie au XIXème siècle"; Montreuil, 1982 * Jacques Ferrand. "Les familles princières de l’ancien Empire de Russie", Vol. 2; 1979-1982

External links

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