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441:…You are not empowered to put me under trusteeship and will not dare to do so, for I am neither under age nor insane, as I do not hesitate to submit serfs living in my house to corporal punishment, when in my opinion they deserve it: for the right to flog one’s serfs is immanent to Russian private and public law as handed down to us by our forebears. (…) Your Illustrious Highness must be aware, also in your capacity as citizen of legal age, that you are not allowed to threaten another citizen of legal age and imperial dignitary; and how dare you write something like this to me, a man who is in every respect - with the exception of the
421:, the Chief of the General Staff and one of the leaders of the political police, who had already been the recipient of Gribovsky's denunciation in 1822. In that denunciation he informed him on the unexpected reactivation of the Russian Order of Chivalry "long since deemed defunct" and openly named Mamonov. According to the son of the teacher of Russian literature in the Mamonov household, P. Kicheyev - the new valet rather than fulfilling his role as servant spied upon the count. As he suspected him to be a government agent, the count ordered him flogged. The victim turned to the Moscow Military Governor, Prince
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foreigners holding office". As a foreigner, however, "must be regarded within the Order also the greatgrandson of a foreigner, whose forebears from great-grandfather down to the father belonged to the Greco-Russian faith, served the throne of Russia and upheld their nationality without ever leaving Russia". This instruction was directed against
273:, but during the summer it saw action. "The count was always conceited, but these accolades brought him over the brink. Furthermore he was never trained as a soldier and did not possess any of the necessary skills to lead a regiment. Irregularities and misunderstandings occurred. Even before the final deployment of the regiment he fought a
496:. In consequence of the long detention there of Count Mamonov it was named "Mamonovian Dacha" by the Muscovites. "Treatment" and abuse by the turnkeys did not remain without effect: People, who met the count during the 1840-1860 period, remember him as a lunatic suffering from delusions of persecution and grandeur. He died from
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allies and the local population occurred; a German village was burned down. On 27 August/8 September 1814 the
Mamonov regiment was dispersed, he himself transferred to be the commander of the First Cavalry Corps under general F.P. Uvarov. After the cessation of hostilities he was with the commander
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Count M.A. Dmitriev-Mamonov, went on only sluggishly, though the popular cavalry colonel Prince B.A. Svjatopolk-Tshetvertinsky had been named its commander. The regiment consisted in part of the count's serfs, but in part also of volunteers. The officers belonged to the Moscow court nobility. Among
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took matters in hand personally. As Prince
Vyazemsky reports: "he was charged with irregularities in the management of the estate, namely oppression of the peasants not as an absentee landlord, but by the actual management". By imperial prescript Mamonov was placed under house arrest in his Moscow
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later dubbed it "immortal". Mamonov offered the government to use his whole income for the war effort keeping back just 10,000 rubles a year for his personal use; further, he also offered to mobilise his serfs. The tsar thanked him for his offer and suggested he raise a cavalry regiment within the
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organisations. He put up program documents for the order, in 1816 printing the pamphlet "Short
Instruction for Russian Knights" on the premises of the Typographic Institute of the Moscow Imperial Medico-Surgical academy with a run of 25 copies (in French; one copy of the Russian original has been
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and the transformation of Russia into an aristocratic republic with a bicameral parliament (with a chamber of lords and chamber of deputies). One of the order's objectives was "to deprive all foreigners of any influence on the state affairs" and "the final overthrow, possibly the death of all
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288:. The regiment leader in his youthful inexperience failed to uphold the discipline among his men (already at the deployment of the regiment at Yaroslavl his cossacks had been nicknamed "mamma’s boys" instead of "Mamonov’s boys", and due to rioting an inquiry had been opened at
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On 19/31 August the regiment comprised 56 commissioned officers, 59 petty officers, and 186 men, but had only 81 horses. Though the regiment had no part in any battles, it was used to keep up law and order during the army's retreat from Moscow and the crossing of the
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province, the loss of the ammunition bought at Moscow, and the pillage of
Mamonov's villages the raising of the regiment was further delayed. At the beginning of January 1813 ten squadrons contained 60 commissioned officers, 96 petty officers, and 389 cossacks.
458:, but the government was apprehensive that the combined influence of his money, of his ties to conspirators in secret societies and Orlov’s options, who after all was in command of a division, might be sufficient to trigger an insurgency or even a coup d’état.
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Review of the present state of Russia and the plans for future restructuring - in: From the
Letters and Testimonials of the Decembrists (Критика современного состояния России и планы будущего устройства // Из писем и показаний декабристов. — СПб, 1906. — С.
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At the end of his message
Mamonov declared himself ready to sort out matters with the governor by a duel. On 28 February he wrote to his old patron I.I. Dmitriev asking him to act as mediator, but he had been in retirement for years and could not help him.
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A medical commission appointed by D.V. Golitsyn declared the count insane. On
Golitsyn's request the cabinet decided on 23 June/5 July to put him under trusteeship. According to all accounts Dmitriev-Mamonov was an ordinary snob, eccentric and
650:Дмитриев-Мамонов Н. А. Из воспоминаний: Граф Матвей Александрович Дмитриев-Мамонов // Русская старина. — 1890, апрель. — С. 176. (Dmitriev-Mamonov, N.A.: From my Memories: Count Matvej Alexandrovitch Dmitriev-Mamonov, in: Old Russia)
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In the opinion of contemporary historians the count showed signs of mental disturbance already in 1817, such as a proclivity to a secluded lifestyle, growing a beard, and wearing "Russian garb". Modern scientists, especially
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remarks "Count
Mamonov was a man gifted far above average, but spoiled by birth and auspicious circumstances. It was said, that he ascribed even to his birth a distinction which it had not and could not have had under the
641:Дмитриев-Мамонов М. А. Письмо к князю Д. В. Голицыну от 23 февраля 1825 // Русский архив. — 1868. — Вып. 9. — Стб. 964—965. (Dmitriev-Mamonov. M.A.: Letter to Prince D.W. Golitsyn from 23 February 1825, in: Russ. Archive)
409:"We derive directly from Vladimir Monomach, and this in the male line, not in the female line, like the Romanovs - these pseudo issue of our ruling family, who are not even Romanovs, but are derived from the Holsteins".
352:"During some years he saw not even one of his servants. All he needed was kept within a separate room; there, too, he left his written instructions. The walls of his bedroom were decorated with strange pictures with
402:. The awareness of their Rurikid lineage was already in the 1850s present in the mind of one of the members of the Dmitriev family (a younger branch), the publicist M.A. Dmitriev, a nephew of the renowned poet
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659:Кичеев П. Из семейной памяти: Граф М. А. Дмитриев-Мамонов // Русский архив. — 1868. — № 1. — С. 99. (Kischeyev, P.: From the Family Recollections: Count M. A. Dmitriev-Mamonov, in: Russian Archive)
469:. From that point onwards cruel "cures" were applied, aimed at either making him relent or to drive him insane. A relative and one of his last trustees, N.A. Dmitriev-Mamonov, reports, that
142:, and quickly rose through the ranks, in 1807 being already Grand Master. Throughout the years 1811 to 1812 he published a cycle of poems in Nevsorov's journal "Friend of the Youth" ("
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for the first time he was treated harshly and cruelly, proof of which are the straight jackets and strappings which I found thirty years ago with which he was tied to his bed
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After his return from abroad in 1817 he retired to his manor near Moscow, where he lived until 1823 in perfect seclusion, only seldom venturing into town:
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The
Mamonov Dacha, where the Count lived for the last 30 years of his life in total seclusion, in 1913. He was not even allowed to visit the gardens.
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at the
Dorogomilovsky gate. Dmitriev-Mamonov himself was awarded for his courage at Tarutinsk and Malojaroslavl the "golden sword for courage".
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preserved). Mamonov's constitutional projects were published in 1906 by А. K. Borosdin. They provided among other things for the abolition of
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305:, to whom he wrote a critical letter on the circumstances of his regiment's dissolution (officially he sought discharge for health reasons).
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and was declared insane. For the rest of his life he stood under trusteeship at Vassilyevskoye manor, which became known as Mamonov's Dacha.
107:. His mother was Princess Darja Fjedorovna Shsherbatova. He was one of the richest landowners in Russia (in 1860 he held manors with 90,000
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Russian Order of Chivalry. He held a considerable estate, including the manor Dubrovitsy near Moscow. In 1825 he refused the oath to Tsar
623:Бороздин А. К. Из писем и показаний декабристов. — М., 1906. — С. 147. (Borosdin, A.K.: From Letters and Testimonials of the Decembrists)
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he made a speech before the members of the Moscow nobility which left an epic impression. The text has not been preserved, though
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In 1823 the count's valet died, and a new one was employed, the freedman, citizen Nikanor Afanassjev, a former serf of Prince
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of 1825 the count, held hitherto in Moscow under arrest as suspect but not as insane, refused the oath of allegiance to tsar
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residence. Mamonov answered to D.V. Golitsyn’s threat to put him under trusteeship, with a furious letter, notably stating:
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Though they did not wear a princely title, the Dmitriev-Mamonovs were not therefore less proud of their descent from
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rivers, a true fortress with ordnance and a detachment of troops levied from his serfs. In his open contempt for the
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and furthermore often absent from Russia. As a means of the transformation the count proposed a military uprising.
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Remarks on Castèra's book - in: Russian Archive (По поводу книги Кастеры // Русский архив. — 1877. — Книга 3.)
597:Сайт Министерства обороны Российской Федерации (Website of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation)
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and their claim to the Russian throne, which he considered void, he kept in his home the banner of Prince
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Poems - in: Poets of the period 1790 through 1810 (Стихотворения // Поэты 1790—1810-х гг. — Л., 1971.)
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632:Лотман Ю. М. О русской литературе. - СПб, 1997. - С. 350. (Lotman, J.M.: On Russian Literature)
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Division. On 2/14 March 1816 he applied for discharge after a conflict with Tsar
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who immediately sent his adjutant to Dubrovitsy. When Mamonov sent him packing,
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with one of his staff officers, probably Tolbuchin", Prince Vyazemsky observed.
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For Humanity's Sake: The Bildungsroman in Russian Culture.
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Dubrovitsy manor, where the count lived in total seclusion
512:Lina Steiner sees Mamonov as one of the models for
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156:. In his literary work he joined the opponents of
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78:, major general (1813), and founder of the pre-
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280:In 1814 the regiment saw action and reached
613:s:Старая записная книжка 81—90 (Вяземский)
578:According to some Mamonov thought Empress
134:. During these years he befriended Moscow
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219:Рифмы прочь, и перья в папку,
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198:1st Mounted Cossack Regiment
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356:, but also erotic scenes".
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223:Я надел медвежью шапку,
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