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Dmitry Prokofievich Troshchinsky (russian: Дмитрий Прокофьевич Трощинский; ; October 26, 1749 – February 26, 1829) was a
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statesman of
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origin, senior Cabinet Secretary (1793–98),
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(1814–17),
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, senator, owner of the serf theater.


Biography

Coming from the Ukrainian noble family of Troshchinsky. His great-grandfather – the
Hadiach Hadiach ( uk, Га́дяч, Hadyach, ; russian: Гáдяч, Gadyach, pl, Hadziacz), sometimes spelled Hadyach, Gadyach, Gadiach, Haditch, or Hadziacz, is a city of regional significance in Poltava Oblast (province) in the central-east part of U ...
colonel Stepan Troshchinsky – was the nephew of hetman
Ivan Mazepa Ivan Stepanovych Mazepa (also spelled Mazeppa; uk, Іван Степанович Мазепа, pl, Jan Mazepa Kołodyński; ) was a Ukrainian military, political, and civic leader who served as the Hetman of Zaporizhian Host in 1687–1708. ...
. Dmitry's father, Prokofy Troshchinsky, was a Bunchuk comrade in the Hetman country. At the end of the course at the Kiev Academy, Dmitry Troshchinsky joined the Little Russian Collegium. He received the rank of regimental clerk in 1773. Being sent to
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at the disposal of Prince
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, Troshchinsky soon attracted the attention of the prince, who did not part with him until 1787, by his industriousness and efficiency. This year,
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took a trip to the Crimea; she was accompanied by Count
Alexander Bezborodko Prince Alexander Andreyevich Bezborodko (russian: Князь Алекса́ндр Андре́евич Безборо́дко; 6 April 1799) was the Grand Chancellor of Russian Empire and chief architect of Catherine the Great's foreign policy afte ...
. Prince Repnin recommended to him Troshchinsky, as a reliable and experienced official. In 1793, Troshchinsky was appointed a member of the Main Post Office and elevated to the rank of Secretary of State. This gave him the opportunity to attract the attention of
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. In 1796, he received from the empress the town of Kagarlyk in the
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, the entire Kagarlyk village headquarters, as well as two village headquarters in the
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. Troshchinsky accompanied emperor Paul I to Moscow for the coronation and was appointed
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and present in the council established at the educational society of noble maidens. In 1800, he was dismissed from all posts and (according to Nathan Eidelman) took part in a conspiracy against Paul I. After the coup of 1801, he was reinstated in all posts and appointed by Emperor
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a member of the Permanent State Council and head of the Postal Directorate of the empire, and when the ministries were established, he became the Minister of Allotments. Troshchinsky is also known for the fact that he wrote the famous manifesto on the accession to the throne of Alexander I, in which the tsar abdicated the policies of Paul I and solemnly vowed "to rule by God, as the people handed over to us according to the laws and in the heart of God, the honourable grandmother of our sovereign Empress Catherine the Great". Troshchinsky held the post of Minister of Allotments from 1802 to 1806, then he retired and moved to live in the village of Kibintsy, Mirgorod Uyezd. The Poltava
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chose him as the provincial marshal. From 1814 to 1817, Troshchinsky was the Minister of Justice. Having retired, he remained in
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for about five years, and then moved to Kibintsy, where he gathered the local landowners. Among the latter were the Gogol–Yanovsky family, the relatives of Troshchinsky by brother. Thanks to Troshchinsky,
Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...
was enrolled in the Nizhyn gymnasium. He had extensive possessions in the Poltava Region, the Kiev Region, in
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and the Voronezh Province (over 70,000 dessiatins). In last years, Troshchinsky lived in his Khorbintsy estate in Mirgorod. He was a friend and patron of many Ukrainian writers and artists, in particular
Vasily Kapnist Count Vasily Vasilievich Kapnist (russian: Василий Васильевич Капнист, 23 February 1758 – 9 November 1823), was a Russian poet, playwright and nobleman who was known as an active critic of serfdom in Russia and as a pr ...
, Pavel Koropchevsky, Miklashevsky, Yakov Markevich, Vasily Lomikovsky, Vasily Gogol,
Vladimir Borovikovsky Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (russian: Влади́мир Луки́ч Боровико́вский, ukr, Володи́мир Лýкич Боровикóвський, ; July 24 O.S. (August 4, N.S.) 1757, Mirgorod – April 6 O.S. (April 18, N. ...
, Artemy Vedel. Through his friend Osip Kamenetsky, Troshchinsky was one of the initiators of the first edition of the
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by
Ivan Kotlyarevsky Ivan Petrovych Kotliarevsky ( uk, Іван Петрович Котляревський) ( in Poltava – in Poltava, Russian Empire, now Ukraine) was a Ukrainian writer, poet and playwright, social activist, regarded as the pioneer of modern Ukra ...
(1798). In Kibintsy, Troshchinsky had a home theater, which he directed from 1812 with the help of Vasily Kapnist and Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky. Troshchinsky collected a rich library, sold in parts after his death in different hands. He died of "dropsy in the chest" on February 26, 1829, in Kibintsy, leaving a very significant condition: 6 thousand souls of serfs, a house in Petersburg and Kiev, movable property worth about 1 million rubles. He bequeathed a significant part of his wealth to his senior nephew Andrei Troshchinsky. Troshchinsky was not married, but had secondary children – his son Dmitry (October 25, 1802 – ?, born in Saint Petersburg, the godson of Colonel Andrei Troshchinsky), and daughter Nadezhda (she died of consumption in 1817), she was married to an officer, Prince Ivan Khilkov, who soon left, according to Gogol, he was "a big comedian and an old sinner". Their daughter Praskovya Ivanovna (1804–1829) became the wife (1827) of Major General Baron Stanislav Karlovich Osten-Saken (1789–1863). According to a contemporary, Troshchinsky "loved her granddaughter dearly, meanwhile, she was completely convinced that she was his only heiress and eagerly expected what her fate would be decided. When reading the spiritual, the old man called her a pupil and left her 800 souls in the Kiev province. This news struck her so much that she fell ill, soon gave birth, and died three weeks after the death of Troshchinsky, leaving her husband and little orphan daughter",Sophia Kapnist–Skalon. Memoirs // Notes of Russian Women of the 18th – First Half of the 19th Century – Moscow: Sovremennik, 1990 – Pages 281–388 Elena, who died in 1835, in despair. After her death, Andrei Troshchinsky tried in court to rob the baron of Osten-Saken, but lost the case. In 1837, the side daughters of Prince Khilkov, Countess Alexandra Efimovskaya and Natalya Ushakova, began a lawsuit with the baron, trying to prove that they were the legal heirs of their deceased half-sister Praskovya Khilkova, but in 1851 all their arguments were recognized as having no legal basis.


Awards

*Order of Saint Vladimir, 2nd class (September 22, 1794); *Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class; *Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky; *Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Troshchinsky, Dmitry 1749 births 1829 deaths Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)