Sheremetev Family

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SHEREMETEV FAMILY, noble family, known since the 14th century (in 1706, the senior branch of the family was conferred the title of Counts). Several family members are closely connected with St. Petersburg. Boris Petrovich Sheremetev (1652-1719) was a Count (1706), an associate of Peter the Great's, a Chamber Boyar (1686), and a Field Marshal General (1701). On 1 May 1703, he forced the Swedish fortress Nyen (Nyenschantz) to surrender; on 16 May of the same year, he took part in the foundation of St. Petersburg. By order of Peter the Great, he was buried at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. His son was Peter Borisovich Sheremetev (1713-88), whose posts and ranks included General en Chef (1760), Adjutant General (1760), Arch-Chamberlain (1761), Gentleman in Waiting at Princess Anna Leopoldovna's Chamber (1739), and Senator (1762); he was a childhood friend of Emperor Peter II's, and retired in 1768. Peter Sheremetev owned the Fontanny House (34 Fontanka River Embankment; see Sheremetev Palace), which passed on to his descendants. His great-grandson was Sergey Dmitrievich Sheremetev (1844-1918), a historian and genealogy expert, a public figure, a Chief Master of the Hunt (1904), and an Honorary Fellow of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1890). He also served as Colonel of the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment (1874-84), Director of the Court Chapel (1883-94), Member of State Assembly (1900), and Chairman of the Archaeographic Commission (1900-17). He was a Founding Member (1877) of the Society of Friends for Ancient Literature, which he presided over from 1888; he was also the Chair of the Society of Lovers of Russian Historical Education in Memory of Emperor Alexander III (1896), and the Russian Genealogical Society (1898). He wrote a memoir, the latest edition of which appeared in 2001 (Count S.D. Sheremetev's Memoirs, Moscow, 2001). Representing another branch of the family was Vasily Alexandrovich Sheremetev (1795-1862, St. Petersburg), Full Privy Councillor (1857), Civil Governor of St. Petersburg (1841-43), Deputy Minister of Justice (1845-47, de facto Deputy Minister from 1843), and an Honorary Trustee of the St. Petersburg Office of the Board of Trustees (1847-62). Vasily Sheremetev controlled the Loan Treasury of the St. Petersburg Orphans' Hospital (1848-56). In 1856-57, he was Minister of Public Property, and in 1857, joined the State Assembly. The Sheremetev family vault is situated at the St. Lazar Church at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

References: Павленко Н. И. Птенцы гнезда Петрова. М., 1994; Краско А. В. Жизненный путь и творческое наследие графа С. Д. Шереметева: (К 150-летию со дня рождения) // Изв. Рус. генеал. о-ва. СПб., 1995. Вып. 2. С. 13-19; Шереметевы: В 3 ч. М., 2000-2003; Шереметевы в судьбе России: Воспоминания. Дневники. Письма. М., 2001.

M. O. Meltsin. Alexander III, Emperor
Anna Leopoldovna, Regent
Peter I, Emperor
Peter II, Emperor
Sheremetev Boris Petrovich, Count
Sheremetev Peter Borisovich, Count
Sheremetev Sergey Dmitrievich, Count
the Sheremetevs
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 34
Шереметевы: В 3 ч. М., 2000-2003
Шереметевы в судьбе России: Воспоминания. Дневники. Письма. М., 2001
Павленко Н. И. Птенцы гнезда Петрова. М., 1994
Краско А. В. Жизненный путь и творческое наследие графа С. Д. Шереметева: (К 150-летию со дня рождения) // Изв. Рус. генеал. о-ва. СПб., 1995
Бантыш-Каменский Д. Н. Биографии российских генералиссимусов и генерал-фельдмаршалов. Репр. воспр. изд. 1840 г. Пушкино, 1991 Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Sheremetev Palace
Russian Academy of Sciences
Cavalier Guards Regiment
State Assembly
Archaeographical Committee
Russian Genealogical Society