11 Facts About Dmitry Staroselsky

Dmitry Semyonovich Staroselsky was a Russian general and bureaucrat who served as a Governor of Baku from 1872 to 1875 and Chief of the Administration of the Viceroy of the Caucasus from 1878 to 1884.

Dmitry Staroselsky was brought up at first in the Poltava Petrovsky Cadet Corps, and in 1848 he finished the course first place with his name was entered on the gold plaque.

In October 1856, Lieutenant Staroselsky was appointed senior adjutant of the 2nd Guards Infantry Division.

Dmitry Staroselsky was transferred as an adjutant to the Governor-General of Kutaisi, Baron Alexander Wrangel, with the rank of captain, to the Georgian Grenadier Regiment in December 1857.

Dmitry Staroselsky was posted for military service in the Caucasus in the 1850s and rose to rank of major general in 1868.

Dmitry Staroselsky was appointed as Governor of Baku and established Bakinskiye Izvestiya in 1872 and helped Hasan bey Zardabi to publish Akinchi, the first Azeri-language newspaper, in 1875.

Dmitry Staroselsky helped compile reports about the life of Caucasian mountaineers published in Tiflis between 1868 and 1875.

Dmitry Staroselsky was appointed to a higher administrative post - director of the Department of the Main Directorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty on June 1,1876.

Dmitry Staroselsky was described as an energetic and humane person who tried to carry out all his reforms peacefully, without resorting to weapons.

Dmitry Staroselsky died suddenly, returning home from a dinner party, from heart failure, in Tiflis, 1884.

Dmitry Staroselsky was married to Katerina, Princess Guramishvili, who was a sister-in-law of Prince Ilia Chavchavadze, a leading Georgian intellectual of that time.