Count Sergey Kuzmich Vyazmitinov (russian: Серге́й Кузьмич Вязьмитинов) (7 October 1744 – 15 October 1819) was a Russian general and statesman. He descended from the ancient noble landowner's family of

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n origin, known from the end of the 15th century. On 22 June 1759 he was recorded as corporal into the Observational Corps, but started service only on 21 December 1761 as ensign of

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Corps. In 1762 he was moved into Manezh Company (''Манежная рота''). During the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774 he was aide-de-camp of the Vice President of the

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Count Zakhar Chernyshev, from 1770 he was a ''generals-auditor-lieutenants'' in the rank of premier-major, manager of the affairs of the march office of Chernyshev (from October 1771 of Count Peter Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky). In 1777 he was promoted to Colonel and was appointed as the commander of Astrakhan infantry regiment. On 22 September 1786 he obtained the rank of Major General and became the commander of the Astrakhan grenadier regiment for whose formation he was chiefly responsible. During Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 he commanded joined forces of the chasseurs and grenadiers battalions and participated in the taking of

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, Akkerman and Bendery. From 1 March 1790 Vyazmyatinov was the ruler of Mogilev's deputy and the commander of Belarusian chasseur Corps. On 2 September 1793 he was promoted to

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, from 4 March 1794

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. In September 1794 he was appointed acting Governor General of

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and Ufa. From 1795 he commanded the Orenburg Corps. He helped stifle a rebellion of

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and secured election as the

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of the Russian-backed puppet. From 29 November 1796 he was Orenburg military governor and the chief of Moscow musketeer regiment. He was a military governor of

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from 1 December 1796, from 3 December 1796 Governor General of Malorossiya, from 13 January 1797 commandant of

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and the chief of its garrison regiment. Simultaneously (from 24 April 1797) he commanded the Commissariat Department. On 5 November 1799 Vyazmyatinov was dismissed from the military service. On 9 September 1801 he was appointed the civil governor of Malorossiya. From 1 January 1802 he was the Vice President of the

and from 15 January simultaneously a senator and a member of the

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(''Непременный Совет''). After the creation of Ministry of Land Forces on 8 September he became the first Defense Minister of Russia and carried out enormous work on the reorganization of the Arms Forces Administration. During his departure into front-line army (1805) emperor

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left Vyazmitinov as the commander-in-chief in St.Petersburg. 13 January 1808 he was dismissed (one of the reasons were the large scale of abuses by the

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officials). On 20 April 1811 he was newly accepted to the service, and with appointment as a member of the

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. From 25 March 1812 he was a member of the

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, and from 28 March Vyazmitinov was the commander-in-chief in St.Petersburg during absence of the Emperor, managing the Ministry of Police. Simultaneously, from 9 September 1812 he was the Chairman of the Committee of Ministers, and from 30 October 1816 military Governor General of St.Petersburg. On 19 August 1818 Vyazmitinov was granted a

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. He was buried in the Lazarev burial-vault of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vyazmitinov, Sergey Politicians of the Russian Empire Counts of the Russian Empire Ruthenian nobility Russian generals Governors-General of Little Russia 1744 births 1819 deaths Burials at Lazarevskoe Cemetery (Saint Petersburg)

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