Kochubey V.P. (1768-1834), statesman

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KOCHUBEY Viktor Pavlovich (1768-1834), Prince (1831), statesman, Chancellor for Internal Affairs (1834), Honorary Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1818). Maternal nephew of Prince A. A. Bezborodko, riding on his coattails. Studied at universities in Geneva, Upsala and London. Since 1784, he was sent on diplomatic service. In the 1780s, he was a member of the Masonic Lodge of Harpocrat in St Petersburg. In 1792-97, he was Envoy to Constantinople. In 1798-99, he directed as Vice-Chancellor of the Collegium for Foreign Affairs. One of Emperor Alexander I's minions. From 1801, he was Senator; in 1801-02, he again directed the Collegium for Foreign Affairs; in 1802-07, he became a member of the Private Committee, helping work out system-wide reforms and planning for the Russian Empire's public administration; helped initiate the creation of ministries and the abolition of collegiums (1802). In 1802-07, he was Minister of Internal Affairs, extending his protection to M. M. Speransky. From 1810, he was Member of State Assembly. During the Great Patriotic War of 1812, he attended to Emperor Alexander I; in 1813, he became Chairman of the Central Council for the Administration of German Lands. In 1816-19, he headed the Department for Ecclesiastical and Civil Affairs of the State Assembly, initiating the integration of the Ministry of Police and Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as the creation of the Ministry for Ecclesiastical Affairs and People's Education. In 1819-23, he headed Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1827, he became Chairman of the State Assembly and an Honorary Member of the Petersburg Ecclesiastical Academy (1814), the Russian Academy (1818), the Free Economic Society (1821), and the St Petersburg University (1821). In 1802-07, he owned a house at 22 Millionnaya Street, then a house at 27-29 Mokhovaya Street; form 1819, he lived in a house at 16 Fontanka River Embankment. Buried in the Descent of the Holy Spirit Church at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra (in 1937 his remains were moved to the Lazarevskaya Burial Vault).

References: Чечулин Н. Д. Князь Виктор Павлович Кочубей, 1768-1834: Очерк жизни и деятельности. СПб., 1900.

D. N. Shilov. Alexander I, Emperor
Bezborodko Alexander Andreevich
Kochubey Viktor Sergeevich, Duke
Speransky Mikhail Mikhailovich
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 16
Millionnaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 22
Mokhovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 27-29
Чечулин Н. Д. Князь Виктор Павлович Кочубей, 1768-1834: Очерк жизни и деятельности. СПб., 1900 Russian Academy of Sciences
State Assembly
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Free Economic Society
Lazarevskaya Burial Vault