Nikolay Ivanovich Perovsky (; 1785 – 22 April 1858) was an

Active State Councillor Active State Councillor (, deystvitelnyi statskiy sovetnik) was a civil position (class) in the Russian Empire, according to the Table of Ranks introduced by Peter the Great in 1722. That was a civil rank of the 4th class and equal to those of M ...

, Governor of

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, Mayor of

Feodosia Feodosia (, ''Feodosiia, Teodosiia''; , ''Feodosiya''), also called in English Theodosia (from ), is a city on the Crimean coast of the Black Sea. Feodosia serves as the administrative center of Feodosia Municipality, one of the regions into ...

, eldest son of Count

Alexey Razumovsky Count Alexei Grigorievich Razumovsky (, ; 1709–1771) was a Ukrainian-born Russian Registered Cossack who rose to become the lover, and it was suggested he was the morganatic spouse, of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna of Russia. A member of th ...

, grandfather of

Sophia Perovskaya Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya (; – ) was a Russian revolutionary and a member of the revolutionary organization ''Narodnaya Volya''. She helped orchestrate the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, for which she was executed by hanging. ...

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Biography

Perovsky was brought up in the house of his aunt Natalya Zagryazhskaya and in 1799, he entered the service of the State College of Foreign Affairs as a student, being included in the Constantinople mission; in 1801 (1 January) he travelled to the Vienna mission, and then (in 1803, 31 August) – to the Dresden mission. In 1805 Perovsky joined the embassy of Count

Yury Golovkin Count Yurii Alexandrovich Golovkin () (1762–1846) was a Russian diplomat who served as Russian Minister (ambassador) in Stuttgart (1813–18) and in Vienna (1818–1822), but is best remembered for his leadership of the ambitious mission to Chin ...

to China, as one of the embassy's seven noblemen, which also included

Filipp Vigel Filipp Filippovich Vigel (; – ) was a Russian noble of Swedish extraction who served in the foreign ministry. He accompanied Count Golovkin on his 1805 mission to China, presided over the department of foreign religions and governed the tow ...

. After serving a very short time in military service (in the Sumy Dragoon Regiment), Perovsky was again enrolled in the Department of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs and in 1811 was assigned to serve under the Kherson military governor, handling foreign correspondence. Having transferred to the service in the

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, Perovsky was appointed as an official in the and on 20 November 1812, was appointed to the commission for drafting laws. In 1816, by imperial command, he travelled to Amsterdam to countersign private bonds on a Dutch loan, which he did with success.

In Crimea

On 28 May 1817, Perovsky was appointed Vice-Governor of Taurida and promoted to state councilor; on 25 May 1820, he became Mayor of

, and two years later, on 25 February 1822, he was appointed Governor of Taurida, while retaining his post as Mayor of Feodosia. During this period he became acquainted with

Konstantin Batyushkov Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov ( rus, Константи́н Никола́евич Ба́тюшков, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪdʑ ˈbatʲʊʂkəf, a=Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov.ru.vorb.oga; ) was a Russian poet, ...

, who lived at that time in the Crimea and was ill.V. A. Kuznetsov. The Perovsky Brothers and the Patriotic War of 1812
/ref> Perovsky arranged for his medical care, and then with his doctor sent him to Saint Petersburg. On 30 March 1822, Perovsky was promoted to Active State Councillor, and shortly after that, on 16 October 1823, he was dismissed from the post of Governor of Taurida, while remaining Mayor of Feodosia. He departed on annual leave on 23 April 1824 and did not return to the office. By the highest decree on March 24, 1825, was ranked among the College of Foreign Affairs. After retiring, Perovsky lived in his estate "Alkadar" in the village of Belbek (now

Fruktove Fruktove (; detatarized name: ; ) is a village in Crimea. It was first established in the 18th century and is currently the site of the Sevastopol International Airport. , a soldier who was killed in action and posthumously awarded for his servi ...

), Simferopol Uyezd, Taurida Governorate, where he died on 22 April 1858.

References

Sources

*Alekseevsky B
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Russian Biographical Dictionary The ''Russian Biographical Dictionary'' (''RBD''; ) is a Russian-language biographical dictionary published by the Imperial Russian Historical Society and edited by a collective with Alexander Polovtsov as the editor-in-chief An editor-in-c ...

: In 25 Volumes – Saint Petersburg – Moscow, 1896–1918 *Formulary List in the Archives of the Heraldry Department *Archive of the Chapter of Orders, File of the 5th Section of the 3rd Table, 1858, No. 1, Pages 167–168 *"Russian Archive", 1890, April, Page 481 *Memories of Philipp Vigel; *Prince Alexei Lobanov–Rostovsky, "Russian Genealogical Book", Volume 2, Saint Petersburg, 1895 *Works by Konstantin Batyushkov, Edited by Leonid Maikov and Vladimir Saitov. Saint Petersburg, 1887

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