13 Facts About Alexey Dolgorukov

Prince Alexey Alekseevich Dolgorukov was a Russian statesman, Actual Privy Councillor, Simbirsk and Moscow Governor, Senator, Prosecutor General, manager of the Ministry of Justice, member of the State Council.

Alexey Dolgorukov belonged to the poor senior branch of the Dolgorukovs, descended from Prince Alexey Grigorievich, exiled to Berezov.

Alexey Dolgorukov had brothers, princes: Gregory, Ivan, Pavel, Yakov, Andrey and sisters, princesses: Catherine, the wife of the guard captain Peter Menshikov, and Anna, the wife of Nikolai Matrunin.

Alexey Dolgorukov left military service with a transfer to the rank of Actual State Councillor.

Alexey Dolgorukov was numbered in the heraldry, then appointed prosecutor in the chapter of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Alexey Dolgorukov was appointed as the Simbirsk Civil Governor.

From that time on, the official activities of Prince Alexei Alexey Dolgorukov began to draw attention to themselves.

Alexey Dolgorukov formed the Simbirsk Militia, which he commanded before going on a campaign.

Alexey Dolgorukov was transferred as Civil Governor to Moscow.

Alexey Dolgorukov ordered the installation of milestones along the Petersburg Highway and began repairing it within the Moscow Governorate.

Thanks to his energetic economic activity, Prince Alexey Dolgorukov became known, according to Vigel, as "the greatest businessman".

Alexey Dolgorukov had a house in Moscow on the embankment of the Moskva River, in the parish of the Church of Sophia the Wisdom of God.

Alexey Dolgorukov died on August 11,1834, and was buried in the Church of the Holy Spirit of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.