Biography Count Razumovsky

He was born in the Lemesh farm now the village of Kozeletsky district, the Chernihiv province, in the family of the "register" of the Little Russian Cossack Grigory Rosum in Malorossian - the mind; So they called Gregory because he in a drunken form loved to pronounce the saying: "Scho, that’s head, then for the rosam!" Despite the fact that the origin of Razumovsky was well known to contemporaries and descendants, and they did not hide themselves, a fantastic genealogy appeared that withdrew them from the Polish gentry of Rozhinsky.

Boy Razumovsky passing a public herd, but he manifested a passion for teaching and singing; He learned to literacy at the clerk Selo Cheermer. In the year through with. Scheur was traveling one of the courtiers, Colonel Vishnevsky, heard Razumovsky’s wonderful voice in the church and took him with him to St. Petersburg. Ober-Khofmarskh the court of imp. Anna Ioannovna Lovenold accepted Alexei Rosum in the court choir; There, the Cesarevna Elizaveta Petrovna, who was captivated by his voice and appearance, saw him and heard him - he was a handsome man in the full sense of the word.

From that time on, its rapid elevation began; After the exile of the favorite of the Cesarevna, Shubin, he took his place in her heart. Having lost his voice, Rosum received the post of court bandurist, then, already from the estates of the Cesarevna, then her other estates and her entire small courtyard. During the reign of Anna Leopoldovna, he was made by a tuninger junker of Tsesarevna.

This elevation was reflected in Lemesh: Razumovsky’s mother made a tavern there and enhanced her daughters. In the coup that elevated to the throne to Elizabeth, Razumovsky played a very prominent role and was granted to the lieutenant of the Life Campan, with the general rank. After the coronation of the Sovereign, Razumovsky received the title of chief heegermeister and a number of estates in Great Russians and Little Russia.

For Razumovsky’s mother, a special delicious was sent to Lemesh, and she was placed with the whole family in the palace; But here she felt uneasy, and she soon returned home.

Conscious of the difficulty of his position at the height at which his case offered, Razumovsky brought up such scientists and talented people as Teplov, Adadurov Adjutant of the Academy, Sumarokov and Elagin. Razumovsky himself stood outside of politics, but such representatives of the Russian party as Chancellor Bestuzhev-Ryumin relied on him. Apparently, not without the influence of this last, the secret marriage of the Sovereign with Razumovsky took place.

The author of a special monograph about the Razumovsky family considers this marriage about this marriage, G., this event dies the importance of Razumovsky by the fall of Mr., after that, finally strengthened; They looked at him as the spouse of the Empress, who dined in his rooms, adjacent to her own apartments during his illness. He managed to keep this exclusive position until the death of the sovereign, although in recent years the favorite of the favorite was taken by I.

at the court, now the fashion for all Little Russian went: the Bandurists were started; The States included the "Little Russian Vospanel"; The singers of the Little Russians participated not only in the church choir, but also in theatrical, along with the Italians, Razumovsky loved music, and due to this, a constant Italian opera was instructed at court. Razumovsky himself now remained the way he was in Lemesh - a simple, good -natured, cunning and mocking crest, who loves his homeland and his countrymen.

Catherine II writes in her memoirs: "I do not know another family that would be so loved by everyone." In the city of Razumovsky, he received the dignity of the Count of the Roman Empire, and the patent said that the Razumovsky came from Rozhinsky’s novel. After some time, both brothers - Alexei and Cyril - were granted the count's dignity of the Russian Empire, and Razumovsky was made by a field marshal.

There were two questions in which he always resolutely and openly gave his voice, not afraid to bother the Sovereign with his petitions - these are requests for the clergy and for native Little Russia. Elizabeth also fell in love with Little Russia, which she wanted to personally inspect in the city of Kozelts, and met there with all the relatives of the former Lemeshevsky shepherd; Kyiv was especially fascinated and she uttered loudly the following phrase: "Love me, God, in your kingdom of heaven, as I love this well -being and nonsense." The Cossacks filed a petition through the Razumovsky on the restoration of the hetman and it was graciously accepted by the sovereign.

Kirill Razumovsky became the hetman. Dying, Elizaveta Petrovna took the promise from the heir to the throne that he would not offend Razumovsky. With the secret marriage of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and Razumovsky, the mysterious history of their alleged children, the Tarakanovs, is connected. In Europe, in the 10ths of the last century, there was an adventurer, who called herself the daughter of Elizabeth and Razumovsky, the Sultans Alina, the sovereign of Azov, Princess Volodymyr, Princess Elizabeth of the All -Russian, sister Pugachev.

They talked about the Tarakanovs who accepted monastic obedience; Such was the old woman Dosifa, on the portrait of which there is an inscription: "Princess Augustus Tarakanova, in the ino -chalter of Dosifa."According to another legend, there were two Princesses of the Tarakanovs brought up in Italy; Count Orlov insidiously arrested them and ordered them to drown, but one of them saved the sailor and she tonsured one of the Moscow monasteries in the nun.

Similar traditions are timed to different cities of Russia. Gelbig says that, according to the stories, Empress Elizabeth had 8 children Zakrevsky, but he is sure that she had only a son from Razumovsky A. Razumovsky In Zakrevsky and a daughter from Shuvalov. According to G. Vasilchikov, a very likely, Tarakanov fable owes his origin to the fact that Razumovsky really raised his daraganes in Switzerland or, as they were called, Daraganovs, Zakrevsky and Streashentsov.

It was not difficult for foreigners to remake the Daraganovs in the Tarakanovs and create a legend about their special origin, especially since their educator, Dodel, apparently distributed such a version. Upon the death of Elizabeth, Razumovsky settled in his Anichka Palace. Having entered the throne, Catherine II sent to the Razumovsky Chancellor Vorontsov with a decree in which he was given the title of highness, as the legal wife of the deceased sovereign.

Razumovsky took out marriage documents from a secret casket, read them to the chancellor and immediately threw it into the drowned fireplace, adding: "I was not more than the faithful slave of Her Majesty, the late Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, who had showering me with good deeds above the merits of my now, now I see no documents." Catherine II, when Vorontsov reported to her about what had happened, noted: "We understand each other.

There was no secret marriage, even if it was a fearful conscience, the whisper about this was always unpleasant for me. The venerable old man warned me, but I expected this from the self -confirmation of self -confirmation." According to his biographer, Razumovsky "was alien to pride, hated cunning and, having no education, but gifted by nature thoroughly, was affectionate, condescending, friendly in circulation with the younger ones, loved to represent the unfortunate and enjoyed common love." Vasilchikov "Family of the Razumovsky" t.