Vyazemsky prince biography

Bantysh-Kamensky, historian on August 3 14, a descendant of the ancient noble family of Vyazemsky, after the end of the land cadet corps with G. with an accession to the throne of Catherine II, the heyday of the career of Vyazemsky began. In the city, guided by the instructions of the empress, he tried to resolve the conflict peacefully, avoiding the use of force.

In his report to Catherine II, one of the reasons for the excitement, he called the abuse of factories. In February, Vyazemsky was appointed Prosecutor General of the Senate and fulfilled this position before resigning in September G. Throughout the service of service, he enjoyed the confidence of the empress, being one of her closest advisers. When appointing him to the position, Catherine II provided him with a personally written detailed secret instruction from ten points, in which she clearly defined the duties of Vyazemsky as a prosecutor general.

In the instructions, the empress pointed out abuses in the Senate, wrote about the reasons for the removal of the preceding prosecutor general. She also outlined measures to “multiply the circulation of money”, to correct laws, for eradicating corgency - secret trade in goods that make up the treasury monopoly; She offered to act more actively for the closer rapprochement of Russia with Little Russia, Livonia and Finland.

Vyazemsky, despite the hostility of the persons close to the empress, stayed as a prosecutor general near Tyu, showing himself an active and energetic performer of all the instructions of Catherine II. He supervised the observance of laws in the Senate, over the activities of the Senate Chancellery. Vyazemsky organized departmental departments in the Senate, which created the opportunity to solve things faster and rather.

With these innovations, the competence of the authorities of the Prosecutor General expanded: a number of central institutions, control over finance, taxation, trade, and monetary affairs were under its jurisdiction. In fact, Vyazemsky acted as the Minister of Finance and the Head of Government, being one of the main guides to the life of Catherine's reforms.

The Senate compiled a salary book of state revenues. Vyazemsky headed an interior expedition. In gg.

After the formation of the commission, Vyazemsky was appointed its chairman. Soon he wrote the instruction to the official chambers - the main institutions of governorship; Later, he took part in the development of the “Institutions of the Provinces”, which determined the statute of the created provinces that replaced governorship. With the city of Vyazemsky, he also became the head of the office of the guardianship of foreign subjects.

Under the supervision of the Prosecutor General of Vyazemsky, in Catherine’s time, work was carried out to drain the swamps around St. Petersburg, the Catherine Canal was laid, the embankment of the river was landscaped. Vyazemsky was elected an honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. In the second half of the x. He also oversaw the work of the secret expedition of the Senate - the main body of a political investigation.

Under the command of Vyazemsky, the famous Russian poet G. Derzhavin also served, who, according to the patronage of the prosecutor general, was given the opportunity to move to the Senate. At the age of X years of Vyazemsky, he defeated paralysis. Due to the illness, he could no longer fulfill his duties to properly, and after two years he asked for resignation. For “diligence, zeal and jealousy to the benefits of service,” Vyazemsky was awarded many awards, being a gentleman of the Russian orders of the Holy Apostle Andrei the First-Called, St.

Petersburg Vladimir 1st degree, St. Anna, as well as the Polish Order of the White Eagle. Alexander Alekseevich Vyazemsky died and was buried in the necropolis of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. The experience of biographies of prosecutors and ministers of justice. Vyazemsky - A. Bibikov: Author.