Biography of the grandfather of Pushkin

Of the hostages to the tsarist orderly, the Savva Raguzinsky associate of the first Russian emperor was born in the year in the north of Abyssinia, modern Ethiopia. According to the most common version, the boy was already the son of one of the local princes. At birth, he received the name Ibrahim. At the age of seven, he was taken to the Turks to Constantinople to the court of Sultan Ahmed III as a hostage and the “guarantor” of the fidelity of his father of the Ottoman Empire.

Around the same time, the Russian king Peter I wanted to have a “arapchonka” with him. The sovereign clearly went about the European “fashion” of that time. Then many kings kept immigrants from Africa as servants, and Peter did not want to concede the overseas monarchs. The Russian messenger in Constantinople Savva Raguzinsky had to fulfill the royal desire. It was he who noticed a nimble guy.

Ibrahim and his brother were taken to Russia and introduced to Peter, who also liked the boy. For many years, the king practically did not part with the Arapchonk, who became his personal secretary and orderly. An entry in the embassy order on the arrival of Greek Andrei Vasiliev from Constantinople, sent from Sava Raguzinsky with three young araps.

The king immediately announced that the boy should accept the Orthodox faith. The sovereign personally baptized the boy in the Pyatnitsky Church of the city of Vilna. As a result, Ibrahim received the name of Abram Petrovich more familiar to the Russian ear. The surname to the boy, according to one version, also gave his godfather. In honor of the great winner of the Romans, Abram Petrovich became Hannibal.

The king wanted his new subject to become famous for great deeds, and would not lose. True, according to another version, he received his loud surname “Arap” a little later, already under Empress Anna Ioanovna. On the French side, a portrait, some researchers attributed as a portrait of A. In the year, Tsar Peter sent his godson to Europe. From an early age, Abram was distinguished by the “tendency to different sciences”, and Russia as air needed people with advanced engineering education.

Oil was added to the fire by the fact that not all boyar children, studying abroad, showed tribute diligence. Here the sovereign decided to show the noble lazy people that, if desired, even a native of the African outskirts can become an exemplary officer and a state husband. As a result, Abram Petrovich finished his studies with the rank of captain of the French Guard.

He reinforced theoretical knowledge in engineering, ballistics, mathematics, mathematics and fortifications. In the same place, he was wounded. Together with the baggage of knowledge in his head, Hannibal brought with him to Russia and an impressive library consisting of volumes.

This book collection has become one of the 20 largest in the whole country. According to legend, the distributor of the “second bread”, the opportunity to elect a military career Suvorov was obliged to Hannibal, who convinced his father to give in to his son’s inclinations. In the literal sense, Abram Petrovich made a giant contribution to the construction of new Russia.

He took part in the construction of many well -known structures, including the Peter and Paul Fortress and Kronstadt. Even having fallen into a short link to Siberia, he continued to build there. As a result, in the year, for his works, Gannibal received the military rank of Anthef general above only Field Marshal and the Alexander ribbon to the chest. However, Hannibal was also destined to become famous as an innutor-agent.

Potatoes, in other words. This vegetable also brought to the country Peter the Great and raised it on Strelna as a medicinal plant. Catherine considered that potatoes can save her subjects from hunger during crop failure. And it was to Hannibal that she instructed to engage in the cultivation of potatoes in his estate Suid. It was there that the first small, and then large potato fields appeared.

The neighboring landowners, looking at this, arranged the same fields at home, and, as they say, went and went. Tsar Peter Arap did not marry Alexander Mitta made a wonderful film about Abram Petrovich, but in reality, Peter I could not marry his beloved Arap. With the first wife, Greek, Evdokia Andreevna Dioper, Hannibal was combined in a marriage in the year.

By that time, the first Russian emperor was not alive for six years. I must say that the life of the newlyweds did not immediately set. Evdokia was in love with the naval lieutenant Alexander Kaisarov, and went beyond Hannibal under pressure from her father. As a result, it all ended sadly. Evdokia Andreevna and Abram Petrovich lived in the city of Pernov when a scandal flared up: a woman made a white-skinned and blond girl and her husband, of course, doubted her fatherhood, although he later recognized the child later.

But rumors crawled that Evdokia was cheating on her husband with his own subordinates. In the end, the Russified "Moor" could not stand it and launched a divorce process that lasted 22 years! Evdokia until the end of the days was sharpened in the monastery, and Abram Petrovich found another chosen one. The commandant house in Tallinn, where in - lived Hannibal.The scandal was avoided only thanks to the good connections of Abram Petrovich in the power circles.

This marriage was more than happy. Christina and Abram Petrovich had eleven children. One of their sons, Osip, later became the grandfather of the great poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. Pushkin drawings, year. Liki Indians. Buy the book "The Secret of the Three Sovereigns" by Dmitry of the Miropolsky bestseller of the year is already on sale!