14 Facts About Dmitry Troshchinsky

Dmitry Prokofievich Troshchinsky was a Russian Imperial statesman, senior Cabinet Secretary, Prosecutor General, Privy Councilor, senator, owner of the serf theater.

Dmitry Troshchinsky received the rank of regimental clerk in 1773.

In 1793, Dmitry Troshchinsky was appointed a member of the Main Post Office and elevated to the rank of Secretary of State.

Dmitry Troshchinsky accompanied emperor Paul I to Moscow for the coronation and was appointed senator and present in the council established at the educational society of noble maidens.

Dmitry Troshchinsky is known for the fact that he wrote the famous manifesto on the accession to the throne of Alexander I, in which the tsar abdicated the policies of Paul I and solemnly vowed "to rule by God, as the people handed over to us according to the laws and in the heart of God, the honourable grandmother of our sovereign Empress Catherine the Great".

Dmitry Troshchinsky held the post of Minister of Allotments from 1802 to 1806, then he retired and moved to live in the village of Kibintsy, Mirgorod Uyezd.

From 1814 to 1817, Dmitry Troshchinsky was the Minister of Justice.

Dmitry Troshchinsky had extensive possessions in the Poltava Region, the Kiev Region, in Podolia and the Voronezh Province.

In last years, Dmitry Troshchinsky lived in his Khorbintsy estate in Mirgorod.

Dmitry Troshchinsky was a friend and patron of many Ukrainian writers and artists, in particular Vasily Kapnist, Pavel Koropchevsky, Miklashevsky, Yakov Markevich, Vasily Lomikovsky, Vasily Gogol, Vladimir Borovikovsky, Artemy Vedel.

In Kibintsy, Dmitry Troshchinsky had a home theater, which he directed from 1812 with the help of Vasily Kapnist and Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky.

Dmitry Troshchinsky collected a rich library, sold in parts after his death in different hands.

Dmitry Troshchinsky died of "dropsy in the chest" on February 26,1829, in Kibintsy, leaving a very significant condition: 6 thousand souls of serfs, a house in Petersburg and Kiev, movable property worth about 1 million rubles.

Dmitry Troshchinsky bequeathed a significant part of his wealth to his senior nephew Andrei Troshchinsky.