Rumyantsev commander biography

An important page in the biography of the heroic field marshal was the appearance of his years ago, in M, the estate in Gomel, in which he managed to build a majestic palace in the style of classicism. They named the future military leader in honor of Peter the Great, whose beloved Dencher was his father Alexander Ivanovich, who later became General Anthef, a prominent commander and diplomat.

The first Russian emperor was also familiar with the mother of Rumyantseva Maria Andreevna, the granddaughter of the famous statesman Artamon Matveeva. When Peter Alexandrovich has already become a famous commander, secular castens about his birth from the connection of his mother and Peter the Great became a stable legend. The launching platform for a brilliant career at young Rumyantsev was thorough, but at first he was destined to become a diplomat.

At the age of fourteen, he went to the Russian embassy in Berlin, however, instead of the diplomatic peaks, the young man perfectly comprehended “motionism, laziness and clogging”, for which he was sent to his homeland and determined to study military affairs in the land gentry corps. Soon the first war arrived, with Sweden, years. The future field marshal bravely took Helsingfors now Helsinki, and at the end of the fighting, his father, who signed the world profitable for Russia, sent summer Peter with the news of his imprisonment to Empress Elizabeth Petrovna.

The Sovereign in joy made a young captain Rumyantsev in colonels and gave him the team of the Voronezh Infantry Regiment. The star of the commander Rumyantsev ascended during the victorious war with the Ottoman Empire of the Yelizavetinsky advance the military leader subsequently virtuoso. In the year, his father died, and Peter, who became the heir to significant family estates, left the sins of his youth forever.

From Shalopay and Gulyaks, a commander grew up, inclined to wound a strong enemy with non -standard thinking. Even during the life of Elizabeth Petrovna, the young general distinguished himself in many battles of the Seven Years War, breaking Prussians at the Gross-Segersdorf, Kuersdorf and Kolberg and solemnly occupying Königsberg. Loud military glory was combined with by no means a warlike appearance of its owner.

Pyotr Alexandrovich from the young nails was distinguished by obesity, worshiped early, and the painters and sculptors had to make their heads pretty much, in order to more profitably and more beautifully portray "a large puffy face with a double chin." The civilian physiognomy, however, did not interfere with such a civilian. The brightest star of the commander Rumyantsev rose during the victorious war for the Russian army with the Ottoman Empire.

The brilliant crusher of the Turks at Large and Kagul was clowned by Catherine II and was promoted to Field Marshals, and on the occasion of the signing of the world, he became called the Count Rumyantsev-Zadunaysky. The result of the monarch of affection was the Gomel elder granted in July of the year. Only three years earlier, in M, at that time Gomel at the first section of the Commonwealth became part of the Russian Empire and was initially confiscated to the treasury.

The gift of Catherine II was not limited to estates on the banks of the River River: for state money, Count Rumyantsev began to prepare the project of the luxurious palace. By that time, Peter Alexandrovich was fabulously rich, he could pull large -scale construction at his own expense, but the concern of the enlightened sovereign warmed his soul. The New Palace was built for nineteen years and was completed in the year of Field Marshal, in the metro, the large -scale long -term construction had a loud symbolic meaning: a thorough stone two -story building with a high base and a dome was located on the site of the wooden palace of the last Gomel headman of the time of the Commonwealth, Prince Mikhail Frederic Charratorsky, the uncle of the last Polish king of Stanislav Augustus.

The Chartorysky were the richest magnates prone to luxury, but the new palace of the winner of the Turks overshadowed their legacy on the Gomel land. The best architects of the era, inspired by the famous Rotonda, Italian Andrea Palladio, had a hand in the construction of the Gomel Palace, inspired by the famous Rotonda, famous since the 16th century.

Gomel Palladianism ended up to glory and forever changed the appearance of the no hitherto -out area near Jege. Under Field Marshal, the central part of the modern palace and park ensemble appeared, the image of which is now in the wallet for each Belarusian: this is the front side of the modern ruble banknote of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus. Rumyantsev built not just a palace, Field Marshal started a construction of an object that could glorify the owner equilibrium with his loud military Victorias.

Pyotr Alexandrovich achieved the plan, not forgetting about the functional side of the matter. The first floor of the palace served exclusively for ceremonial-representative goals, the second was occupied by residential chambers, and in the basements there were household services and a servant. The true decoration of the Rumyantsev palace was the column hall with sixteen columns, as one of the first examples of such premises in the architecture of the Russian Empire.Today, the column hall is decorated with a copy of the famous bust of Field Marshal Rumyantsev, sculpting Fedot Shubin in the year.

And after three hundred years, military exploits and civil affairs of Peter Alexandrovich Rumyantsev are not subject to oblivion. Among his heritage, who had survived the modern field marshal, enlightened the XVIII century, and the majestic palace on Belarusian land for a long time. Subsequently, the son of the commander, the state chancellor Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev and the owner of the palace and another famous Russian field marshal Ivan Fedorovich Paskevich, noted a hand in Gomel.