The biography of Sheremetev

Moscow dynasty: Sheremetevs 17 min. The heiress of the dynasty in a straight line - an artist, a member of the Russian literature society Evdokia Vasilievna Sheremeteva, the great -grandson of Count Sergei Dmitrievich Sheremeteva, tells how their fate has developed. The Sheremetev clan is associated primarily with statesmen, military leaders, the founders of the theater, historians. You have become an artist.

Vasilik, as he was affectionately called home, showed interest in drawing from childhood. In life, he had to go through a lot. He was born in the hospital in Podolsk - his parents then lived in his former estate Ostafyevo near Podolsk. The heir to the family, the guardian of the count's title grew without tutors and educators. Father often repeated to him: "In any situation, do not forget, you are Count Sheremetev." Evdokia Vasilievna Sheremeteva and her father Vasily Pavlovich Sheremetev graduating from the school of working youth of the second stage in M, Vasily Sheremetev entered the art and graphic faculty of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute.

Fearing that they would not be taken to the front due to non-murmur of origin, in the book of the Red Army Vasily Pavlovich wrote: “There are no parents.” He volunteered for war. On the southwestern front he fought as an ordinary infantryman, was shell-shocked twice, was captured, fled, miraculously went to the location of his part. He returned to Moscow in August.

Parents considered the only son to be missing? They did not wait for him, died in the first years of the war one after another. Grandmother Praskovya Vasilievna, nee Obolenskaya-from tuberculosis in m, grandfather Pavel Sheremetev-from exhaustion in a dream in Praskovya Vasilievna Obolenskaya and Pavel Sergeyevich Sheremetev, a graduate of the Polivanovsky gymnasium, grandfather graduated from the historical and philological faculty of the St.

Petersburg Imperial University. He served in the Life Guards of the Izmailovsky regiment in the rank of warrant officer. He was the adjutant of the heir to Tsarevich Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich. As an authorized Russian Red Cross from the Moscow nobility, he participated in the Russian-Japanese war. In the year, Sheremetevs made a significant part of the donations for the construction of the Field Marshal Count Sheremetev, named after Boris Petrovich Sheremetev, Field Marshal.

By the way, Pavel Sergeyevich Sheremetev - he was an artist - his wonderful landscape watercolors are stored in the Hermitage collection. There is a portrait of Sergei Lvovich Tolstoy's brush of his grandfather. How did you mentioned Ostafyevo’s estate, the generic estate of Vyazemsky, passed into the possession of Sheremetev? My great -grandfather Sergey Sheremetev - bought the estate from Peter Vyazemsky in M, to which Ostafyevo became an excessive burden.

Families were related through the marriage of Count Sergei Sheremetev with Princess Catherine Vyazemskaya. The great -grandmother died in January of the year and rested in the cemetery at the walls of the Ostafyevsky Church. Sergey Sheremetev, co -founder of the Society of Lovers of Ancient Writing, led the society of zealots of Russian historical education in memory of Emperor Alexander III and the committee of guardianship of Russian icon painting.

His pen belongs to more articles on history. Sergey Dmitrievich Sheremetev and Ekaterina Pavlovna Vyazemskaya-Schemeeteva on the year of the century from the birth of Pushkin Sergey Dmitrievich, trying to preserve the memory of the poet, who was more than once in Ostafevo, opened in the estate the first public museum in Russia, associated with the poet’s name.

To visit the public, provided that it will be sober and neatly dressed, Sheremetev opened access to the Karamzin room with Pushkin’s relics, published a five -volume of the Ostafyevsky Archive, the compositions of Peter and Pavel Vyazemsky, erected monuments to Pushkin and Karamzin in the manor park, which wrote here the “history of the Russian state”. Three generations of Vyazemsky managed to give special importance to the peaceful Ostafiev.

The Russian thought here found a hospitable shelter and was updated for new works and activities, ”wrote Sergey Dmitrievich. They had nine children, two died in infancy. After the revolution, my grandfather Pavel Sergeyevich, being, like his father, the historian, the household, became the guardian of Ostafyevo, conducted excursions there. First, the count was appointed acting head, then left a simple caretaker.

The museum was popular: on the day it could be visited by a person. But it was difficult in the estate. Once, Pavel Sergeyevich went to shoot a raven from hunger, and when local peasants found out about this, the products collected by them began to appear on the porch of the Barsky house. In the museum in Ostafyevo, they closed the holiday house in it, and the exhibits diverged 18 museums of the country.

Sheremetevsky estates Kuskovo and Ostankino remained museums. Pavel Sergeevich was arrested four times. And every time prominent figures stood up for him: the People's Commissar of Education Lunacharsky, Bonch-Bruevich and Enukidze. The knowledge of the count-historian turned out to be the new government. He, like no one, could recreate the Kremlin interiors, put things in order in his unique meetings, and worked in the Armory.The last arrest of Grandfather in M ​​ended with release thanks to the anniversary from the day of the death of Pushkin, which they were going to celebrate on a grand scale.

It was then that it was decided to create a poet’s museum on Volkhonka, to whom Pavel Sergeyevich gave many things from the family collection. Pavel Sergeyevich and his family were evicted from Ostafyevo? The People's Commissar of Education Anatoly Lunacharsky was exhausted for his grandfather, who was an employee of the People's Commissariat of People's Commissars, official housing in the Novodevichy Monastery.

The nanny of Feodosia Makarov, who did not leave the family until his death, also settled with them. The ancient monastery in the years turned into a communal dwelling, where students of the Pharmaceutical College also lived, cadets of the People's Commissariat of Education and workers from Petrograd. In the monastery cells and the former Assumption Church, a museum of emancipation of women was opened.

Children of Count Sergei Dmitrievich Sheremetev Room in a building with a sunny clock, highlighted by Sheremetev, turned out to be "too good." The neighbors whispered: the count, they say, got the mansions. Then Pavel Sergeyevich spoke at a meeting of the residents: “Give me such a room so that no one is envious! The room without any amenities was heated by a potbelly stove, the ceilings - eight meters, in the winter, water froze in the kettle, the wind howled.

But the worst thing is that a latrine on the street was built from altar icons! The hole for the closet gaped in the place of the Lika Savior. Pavel Sergeyevich with loved ones secretly pulled out defiled images and replaced with ordinary boards. The neighbors, of course, learned, but no one informed. In the diaries of Mikhail Bulgakov, who lived in the years on Bolshaya Pirogovka, there is a record: "There is a person, sandals on the barefoot leg, but it is clear that there is a count." Did your father go to the front from there?

His youth took place in the grounding tower, among ancient folios, family portraits, the banners of the Poltava battle, next to the family relic, closed by silk Kiseya - the Rembrandt Rembrandt's canvas "Christ in the House of Martha and Mary." In M, the father, a young artist, wrote a very disturbing portrait of Pavel Sergeyevich Sheremetev, who, after returning from the war, he will no longer be hugged.

After demobilization, his father returned to the grounding tower, where he lived in inhuman conditions, without water and light. He entered the Surikovsky Moscow Art Institute. After graduating from him in the year, he received a diploma of the theater artist. Robert Falk praised his father’s work, considered him one of the most talented students. Pavel Korin was very friends with his father, took care of him.

Working on the mosaics of the Komsomolskaya and Kievskaya metro station, he invited his father to a group of artists-forming artists. He was an amazing drawer. Igor Grabar, from whom Vasily Pavlovich studied, considered him extremely talented in painting, repeatedly tried to arrange an exhibition of his father in Moscow, and helped to receive orders.

Father was terribly in poverty, but in the year of the Flight of Rembrandt he brought as a gift to the Museum of Fine Arts "Christ in the house of Martha and Mary." The raasted and bewildered museum workers, trying to thank Vasily Pavlovich, gave him a ticket to the house of artists for two months. Father met his mother at the birthday of friends in Tsaritsyno. From the Novodevichy Monastery, he then came on foot with great late and very easily dressed, despite cold weather.

Tell us about mom. Who was she? Irina Vladimirovna, nee Martynova-was the daughter of a junker Vladimir Petrovich Martynov, a native of the Orenburg Cossacks, an intensive care unit of the 1st rank, assistant to the head of the military academy of the General Staff of the Red Army, secretary Mikhail Frunze. Grandfather, by the way, accompanied Frunze on a trip to Turkey, when an agreement was concluded with Kemal Ataturk.

Martynov was accused of a military-fascist conspiracy and shot at a training ground in a training ground in Kommunarka. His wife, my grandmother Evdokia Basantsev, the Belorechensky Cossack, half a Greek woman, who received a doctor’s diploma in the Sorbonne, died in Norilsk camps. Mom was raised by her grandmother from her father. I was born in Novodevichy in the tower. From there, our family moved to a one -room apartment on the Frunze embankment.

There, the archives of the Sheremetev clan fit there. Mom had an excellent education, MGPI named after She worked as a teacher, but after a while she got a job at the library of the Institute of Foreign Languages. Everyone adored her. Did you manage to hold an exhibition of Vasily Pavlovich Sheremetev? In M, the father became a member of the Union of Artists, a year later he participated in the 3rd youth exhibition.

During the life of Vasily Pavlovich, in M, was the only personal exhibition in the hall of the Moscow Union of Russian Artists on Begovoy. In recent years, the father spent in the hospital. Mom devotedly looked after him. In August, Vasily Sheremetev died. They buried him in the church of the Novodevichy Monastery. In x, after the death of his father, we showed his work in the strange house of the now urgent institute of emergency assistance to them.

Sklifosovsky on Bolshaya Sukharevskaya Square.