Biography of Speransky Book

So, freedom, we have a sweet and with the benefit of the kings, you have always been to their glory. Freedom where there are charters, where good lives live; There is slavery, where there are no laws, where the right and wrong ones die. The author of the note was V. Karazin, encouraged by Alexander in his ideas. These were the tasks and hopes with which the new reign was met.

With such ideas and with such a mood, we find Alexander in the last year of the reign of Catherine, which include these conversations with Charrati. Paul, the brief but instructive rule of Paul, could not weaken in a young and impressive prince inclinations to these ideas and plans. Alexander reigned with the hope of making a repetition of this order impossible. The members of the designated committee were: V.

Kochubey, H. Novosiltsev, Prince Adam Chatrysky and Count P. Kochubey, who had recently reached the reign of Emperor Paul, was called from the province immediately after the reign of Alexander, and Novosiltsev and Charrtysky-from abroad, where the first was under the Russian embassy in London, and the second was the second. The Sardinian king of the then king without the kingdom, for the latter was taken from him by the French.

This last was the dominant thought of Alexander, the sympathy for which he found in his employees. Let us now turn to the study of this interesting personality and its even more interesting activity. In a small provincial village of Cherkutino, the Vladimir province and county, the estate of the princes of the Saltykovs, at the poor parish priest Mikhail Vasiliev, who did not even have a tribal nickname, and his wife Praskovy Fedorova, the daughter of a local deacon, was born on January 1, the son of Mikhail, later, when admitting to the seminary, received the surname of Speransky and Speransky and Under this name, he entered himself and his modest clan in the history of the 19th century.

This kind, according to Speransky himself, was transmitted by I. Dmitriev, a well -known fabulist and Minister of Justice in the Speransky era, came from Little Russia, where one of his ancestors was Horunim in the Little Russian Cossack army. Speransky biographer, Baron M. Korf doubts, however, about the reliability of this legend.

It is reliably known that Speransky’s grandfather, a priest Vasily, sacrificed in the same Cherkutin; That his son, and the Speransky father, Mikhail was at first a deacon there, and a year before the birth of a future statesman, in the year, received a priestly place there. Father Michael had a lot of children, but raised a few - two sons, Mikhail who was born the fourth, but grew up the second after the sister of Maria and Kuzma, and two daughters, Maria and Marfu.

Speransky's parents were quite ordinary people, who were not issued in the environment in which they lived and acted. The priest is sober and executive, for many years he corrected the position of deanery, and in the year, due to illness and old age, he left a place that his son -in -law received from him, the priest, later Archpriest, Mikhail Fedorovich Trekakov, married to his youngest daughter Marfa, the eldest daughter Maria, was married to the clerk Petrov.

The father of Speransky died on May 28, just at the time when the new reign opened new prospects for his eldest son, already then to the official. The old man did not have to see his son’s dignitary. But his mother saw him at the height of the first dignitary of the empire, and in disgrace and exile, and again at the height. She died on April 24, in the year of her life. The only thing that can still be noted from this early period of Speransky’s life is the testimony of his relatives, that he was a boy of poor health, prone to thoughtfulness, learned to read early and addicted to reading, which, of course, could not be varied in the house of the poor and poorly educated rural priest.

For seven years he was taken to Vladimir and sent to the seminary, where, in view of his abilities discovered by him, he was recorded by Speransky, that is, supplies, Nadezhdin.