First Count Bobrinsky

Counts Bobrinsky or Bobrinskoy (Бобринские) are a Russian noble family descending from Catherine the Great's natural son by Count Grigory Orlov - Aleksey Grigorievich Bobrinsky (1762-1813). The Russian Nobility (Дворянство Dvoryanstvo) arose in the 14th century and essentially governed Russia until the October Revolution Catherine II, called Catherine the Great (Екатерина II Великая Yekaterina II Velikaya;) reigned as Empress of Russia for 34 years Orlov ( Орлóв) is the name of a Russian noble family which produced several distinguished statesmen diplomatists and soldiers

The first count

The Russian Empress gave birth to her only illegitimate son^[1] on April 11, 1762, several months before her ascension to the throne. Events 491 - Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. Year 1762 ( MDCCLXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The child was named Aleksey after his uncle and godfather, Count Aleksey Orlov. Orlov ( Орлóв) is the name of a Russian noble family which produced several distinguished statesmen diplomatists and soldiers He was brought up in Bobriki, a village in the Tula guberniya. Novomoskovsk (Новомоско́вск called Bobriki (ru Бо́брики before 1934 and Stalinogorsk (ru Сталиного́рск between 1934 and Tula Oblast (Ту́льская о́бласть Tulskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) with its present borders formed Guberniya (губе́рния) (also gubernia, guberniia, gubernya) was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually On April 2, 1781 Catherine sent him a letter, in which she openly avowed her maternity. Events 68 - Galba, Governor of Hispania, names himself legatus senatus populique Romani, breaking the line of Year 1781 ( MDCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common She long hesitated in choosing his surname, styling him Romanov one day and Sitsky the other, but finally settled on Bobrinsky, a surname derived from the estate he lived in. On the 5th day of his reign, Emperor Paul made his half-brother a Count of the Russian Empire and promoted him General-Major. Paul (Па́вел I Петро́вич Pavel Petrovich) ( &ndash) was the Emperor of Russia between 1796 and 1801 A count is a Nobleman in European countries The word count comes from French comte, itself from Latin The Russian Empire ( Pre-reform Russian: Pоссійская Имперія Modern Russian: Российская Империя translit: Rossiyskaya He married Baroness Anna Dorothea von Ungern-Sternberg (1769-1846) and had issue which continues to this day. von Ungern-Sternberg is a Baltic-German noble family with branches belonging to the Finnish, Swedish and Russian nobilities The first count Bobrinsky died on June 20, 1813 in his estate of Bogoroditsk, to the east of Tula. Events 451 - Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius ' defeats Attila the Hun. Year 1813 ( MDCCCXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Tula (Ту́ла is an industrial city in the European part of Russia, located 193 km south of Moscow, on the river Upa.

Bolotov's watercolour representing the chateau and park in Bogoroditsk (1786).

The Bobrinsky family nest in Bogoroditsk was designed by Ivan Starov and constructed in the 1770s and 1780s, starting in 1773. Bogoroditsk (Богоро́дицк is a town in Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Upyorta River ( Upa 's Tributary) Ivan Yegorovich Starov (Ива́н Его́рович Ста́ров (1745&ndash1808 was a Russian architect from St Year 1773 ( MDCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The nearby Kazanskaya church was completed by 1778. Year 1778 ( MDCCLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or The park was laid out by the palace's administrator, Andrey Bolotov (1738-1833), who is better known as one of the first Russian economists. Andrey Timofeyevich Bolotov ( 18 October, 1738 — 16 October, 1833) was the most distinguished Russian Agriculturist of It was Bolotov who established the Children's Theatre in Bogoroditsk. The palace and estate were renovated in the 1870s. In the 20th century, the premises suffered enormous damage from the Bolsheviks, who demolished the wings of the palace in 1929, and from the Wehrmacht, who blew up the chateau in December 1941. The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists ( Большевик Большевист (singular, derived from bolshe, "more" were a faction Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Wehrmacht (literally "defense force" was the name of the unified Armed forces of Germany from 1935 to 1945 Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The palace was restored in the 1960s and now functions as a museum.

Bobrinskys in business

Aleksey's son Count Aleksey Alekseyevich Bobrinsky (1800-1868) is remembered as the founder of the sugar-processing industry in Imperial Russia. After brief and uneventful career at the royal court, he retired from service and settled in Bogoroditsk, establishing one of the first Russian sugar refineries there. Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Later, he moved his operations to the Ukraine, making various agricultural activities the chief source of his family income. Ukraine (Україна Ukrayina, /ukrɑˈjinɑ/ is a country in Eastern Europe. It was thanks to him that Russia stopped to import sugar from abroad. He also published a treatise on economic theory and set up a society for development of railways, which financed the construction of the first railway in Russia. Bobrinsky's contributions to the national economics were commemorated by a bronze statue in Kiev. Kiev, also known as Kyiv ( Ukrainian:, Kyiv, ˈkɪjiw Russian:, Kiyev; see also Cities' alternative names) is the

An English plate with the Bobrinsky coat of arms.

Unlike many other Russian nobles, the Bobrinskys continued as prosperous businessmen after the 1861 emancipation of serfs, starting coal-mining in their estates near Tula and helping to build railways all over Russia. Year 1861 ( MDCCCLXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Emancipation Reform of 1861 in Russia was the first and most important of liberal reforms affected during the reign of Alexander II of Russia. Tula Oblast (Ту́льская о́бласть Tulskaya oblast) is a federal subject of Russia (an Oblast) with its present borders formed Unsurprisingly, Aleksey Alekseyevich's second son Count Vladimir Alekseyevich Bobrinsky (1824-98) served as Minister of Transportation in 1868-71, succeeded in this post by his cousin, Count Aleksey Pavlovich Bobrinsky (1826-1894).

Bobrinskys in politics

The eldest great-grandson of Count Aleksey Alekseyevich was Count Aleksey Aleksandrovich Bobrinskoy (1852-1927), who led the Council of United Nobility since 1906 and represented the nobility of the St Petersburg guberniya in the Senate and the 3rd State Duma. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River Guberniya (губе́рния) (also gubernia, guberniia, gubernya) was a major administrative subdivision of Imperial Russia, usually The Governing Senate (Правительствующий сенат was a legislative judicial and executive body of Russian Monarchs, instated by Peter the Great The State Duma (Государственная дума (Gosudarstvennaya Duma common abbreviation Госдума (Gosduma in the Russian Federation is the He was appointed into the State Council of Imperial Russia in 1912. The State Council ("Государственный Совет" was the supreme state advisory body to the Tsar in Imperial Russia. Year 1912 ( MCMXII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting During the First World War, Bobrinskoy was elected Chairman of the Russian-English Bank. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All In 1916, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Interior and Minister of Agriculture. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year The October Revolution forced him to emigrate to France, where he actively campaigned for the monarchist cause. The October Revolution (Октябрьская революция Oktyabrskaya revolyutsiya) also known as the Soviet Revolution This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.

Count Vladimir Alekseyevich Bobrinsky (1868-1927) was the third son of Count Aleksey Pavlovich. He represented Russian nationalists in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th State Dumas, advocating speedy Russification of border regions and supporting Pyotr Stolypin's reforms. The State Duma (Государственная дума (Gosudarstvennaya Duma common abbreviation Госдума (Gosduma in the Russian Federation is the Russification (in Russian: русификация rusifikátsiya)is an adoption of the Russian language or some other Russian attribute (whether voluntarily Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin ( Russian Пётр Арка́дьевич Столы́пин () served as Nicholas II 's Chairman of the Council of Ministers—the Like most of the Bobrinskys, he emigrated to France following the revolutionary nationalization of their family enterprises.

Bobrinskys in science

Apart from politics, Count Aleksey Alexandrovich was a noted historian and archaeologist, Chairman of the Imperial Archaeological Commission (1886), Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1889), and Chairman of the Free Economic Society (1894). The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St Petersburg Academy of Arts, was opened by Count Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy He led the excavations of Scythian mounds near Kerch and Kiev, describing some of his findings in the monograph on Tauric Chersonesos (1905). The Scythians or Scyths (Σκύθες Σκύθοι were an Iranian speaking people of horse-riding Nomadic pastoralists who dominated the Pontic Kerch (Керч Керчь Keriç Old East Slavic: Кърчевъ Ancient Greek: Pantikapaion) is a city (2001 pop 157000 on the Kerch Peninsula Kiev, also known as Kyiv ( Ukrainian:, Kyiv, ˈkɪjiw Russian:, Kiyev; see also Cities' alternative names) is the Chersonesos (Χερσόνησος Chersonesus Old East Slavic: Корсунь Korsun; Херсонес Khersones; also transliterated as Chersonese He was in charge of the extraction and publication of the Pereshchepina hoard. The Pereshchepina Treasure (Перещепинский клад Съкровище от Мала Перешчепина is a major deposit of Byzantine, Bolgar,

Vladimir's nephew, Count Nikolay Alekseyevich Bobrinsky (1890-1964) specialized in biology. Foundations of modern biology There are five unifying principles Unlike his relatives, he chose to remain in Moscow after the revolution and came to be recognized as one of the most prominent Soviet zoologists. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Zoology (from Greek ζῷον, zoon, "animal" + λόγος, " Logos " "knowledge" is the branch of A species of jerboa is named after him. Jerboas are the bulk of the membership of the family Dipodidae; they are small jumping Desert Rodents of Asia and Northern His son Nikolay Nikolayevich, a geographer, who wrote a novel on the life of the first Bobrinsky, lived in Moscow until his death in 2000.

See also

• Bobrinski bucket

Notes

External links

• Homepage of the Bogoroditsk Museum
• Bobrinsky Estate in Bogoroditsk
• Genealogy of the Bobrinsky family