Kirill Razumovsky biography

In childhood, the father’s cattle pass, and after the “case” of his brother, probably received the beginnings of education. In the city of Razumovsky, he was erected to the counts of the Russian Empire. In Berlin, he studied with the famous mathematician Euler, then listened to lectures in Gettingen, traveled to France and Italy and in the city of a foreign trip completely re -universal: “He was good by himself,” Ekaterina writes about him, “the original mind, very pleasant in circulation and with his mind incomparably superior to his brother, who, however, was more and more beneficial.” He was very fond of court; He used special success in women.

The Empress herself made Razumovsky her grandchildren and maid of honor E. Razumovsky was erected to the title of hetman of Little Russia; For him, the hetman dignity abolished before him was restored.

Regarding the election of Razumovsky Lomonosov, he composed an idyll. Razumovsky settled in Glukhov, where he lived with a king, surrounding himself with a court, bodyguards; Here balls were given and even French comedies were played; A new palace for the hetman was arranged, and the ruler of his office, his former mentor Teplov, became the ruler of his office. The first steps of Razumovsky’s activity initiated fair complaints on the spot and displeasure of the Empress: he began to enjoy his power to enrich his relatives.

In St. Petersburg, where he moved after the empress, he lived very openly. Things at the Academy did not go; She was worried about the consumption of academicians. At this time, a number of decrees were issued that limited the hetman power: Little Russian affairs were transferred from the company of foreign affairs to the Senate; The hetman was prohibited from appointing colonels with his own power; Under him, a special resident of the general was appointed to be assigned to eliminate the disorder; He was forbidden to have foreign correspondence.

Only to G. how much it was possible he defended the ancient rights of Little Russia to the Senate and exhausted the increase in salary for the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks. In the same G. Razumovsky returned to the court and engaged, on the one hand, by the Academy’s affairs, and on the other, by the project of the university institution for Little Russia in Baturin.

By the time of the death of Elizabeth, he again arrived in St. Petersburg. He took a lively part in the coup of G. after that Razumovsky remained at the court, taking advantage of the complete confidence of the new empress. Cossacks received a monotonous uniform; A regular system began to be introduced into the shelves; The old "city, zemstvo and subcomor" courts were restored; The question was raised about the heredity of the hetman in the Razumovsky kind; In this sense, a petition of the sovereign was compiled and submitted, who was very angry and then decided to destroy the hetman in Little Russia.

The hetman was summoned to Petersburg, where Teplov, especially against him, met him with open arms, so that the Count G. Orlov, who was present at the same time, remarked: "And the lines, his own betrayal." The Sovereign demanded that he be a petition for a resignation; Razumovsky hesitated for a long time, but finally had to obey; On November 10, Razumovsky received the rank of Field Marshal and many estates in Little Russia.

The Office of Razumovsky, according to the recall of the modern historian of Little Russia, "was more painful for the Little Russians than all its predecessors, although, perhaps, the last hetman was the best person from the entire number of its rulers of the 18th century. Despite his origin, Razumovsky did not know the sick places of his homeland and the direct management of the region entrusted the foreman at the Razumovsky, however, even more worsened, but Little Russia knew the worst times and the worst rulers.

Razumovsky spent most of his time in St. Petersburg, did little to do the affairs of the region entrusted to his cares and relied too much on the foreman; But he could hardly have done anything significant for the region, as for a more or less autonomous region, except that his very appointment in the hetman was the exceptional act of Elizabeth’s mercy to his brother Alexei Grigoryevich.

His position became even more difficult in the reign of Peter III and especially Catherine II, who constantly strove to reduce and destroy the political special of all the outskirts, including Little Russian. Razumovsky spent the last years of his life near Moscow in Petrovsko-Razumovsky, and then in Lizgorosia, for the most part in Baturin, where he died.