Count Pyotr Aleksandrovich ValuevAlso

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Peter Alexandrovich Valuyev. ( rus, Граф Пётр Алекса́ндрович Валу́ев; September 22, 1815 – January 27, 1890) was a Russian

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and writer.

Life

Valuev was born in the Tsaritsyno District of Moscow on September 22, 1815. Valuev served as Emperor Alexander II's

Minister of Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

between April 23, 1861 to March 9, 1868, and as

Minister of State Assets The Ministry of State Property, sometimes translated as the Ministry of State Domains, (russian: Министерство государственных имуществ (МГИ), ''Ministerstvo gosudarstvennykh imushestv (MGI)'') was the minist ...

from February 17, 1872 to 1877. In 1877, he was made Chairman of the Committee of Ministers. In 1880, his influence began to decline when he was eclipsed by his opponent, Count Loris-Melikov. Valuev was sent into retirement in October 1881 by the son of the recently assassinated Alexander II, Alexander III, since as Minister of State Assets, he had held final responsibility for the so-called plundering of the Bashkir lands in the 1870s. Valuev was always close to the literary world. In 1834 he was transferred from Moscow to St. Petersburg and became acquainted with prominent Russian poets

Aleksandr Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

and

Pyotr Vyazemsky Prince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky ( rus, Пëтр Андре́евич Вя́земский, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐnˈdrʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈvʲæzʲɪmskʲɪj; 23 July 1792 – 22 November 1878) was a Russian Imperial poet, a leading personality of ...

. Valuev may have served as one of the prototypes for the protagonist of Pushkin's novel '' The Captain's Daughter'' (1836), and the same year he married Vyazemsky's daughter. Valuev began writing fiction in the 1870s while still serving in the government. His first novel, ''Lorin'' (1878) was circulated in manuscript, although it remained unpublished until 1882. Once he was retired, he concentrated on writing and published four novels, essays on history of Christianity and a devotional calendar with his poetry prior to his death in 1890 in

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. Throughout most of his adult life, Valuev kept a diary, which was published after his death and has proved to be an important source of information on the inner circle of the

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in the 19th century.

References

* Yu. V. Zeldich. ''Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuev i ego vremya'' (''Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuev and His Time''), Moscow, Agraf, 2005, , 676p. * James A. Malloy, Jr. "Petr Aleksandrovich Valuev" in ''The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History'', volume 41, Academic International Press, 1996-2003 * N.R. Antonov. "Graf Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuev" in ''Russkie svetskie bogoslovy i ih religiozno-obschetvennoe mirosozertsanie'', volume 1, St. Petersburg, 1912, reprinted in Pyotr Valuev. ''Cherny bor: Povesti, stat'i'', Moscow, Agraf, 2002. {{DEFAULTSORT:Valuyev, Pyotr 1815 births 1890 deaths Writers from Moscow People from Moscow Governorate Politicians of the Russian Empire Interior ministers of Russia Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Russian nobility Novelists from the Russian Empire Male writers from the Russian Empire Poets from the Russian Empire Russian male poets Anti-Ukrainian sentiment Russian male novelists 19th-century poets from the Russian Empire 19th-century novelists from the Russian Empire 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery Russification Politicians from Moscow

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