Artist Karl Wilhelm (Ivanovich) Bardou. Pastel. In 1812-1816 worked in
Kazan, after that he lived in Moscow and, probably, in St. Petersburg.
In 1831 he already lived in Berlin.
About 160 works by the artist were discovered, located in many museums
and private collections. In 1999, the first exhibition of his works took
place at the V. A. Tropinin Museum; A catalog of his works was
published.
Alexander Ivanovich Ilyin (1785 – 1834)
Our great-great-great-grandfather. He commanded a garrison regiment in
Kazan. Probably, during his service in Kazan, he met his future wife
M.P.
Veshnyakova
.
The marriage took place before 1816. After retirement in 1816
they lived in Malaya Palnya, Oryol province. Maria Petrovna had numerous
relatives in Kazan, and the couple sold Malaya Palna and bought the village of
Arkatovo
,
Laishevsky district, Kazan province (10,000 acres of land and 200
serfs) from the landowner Tille. According to family legend, the serf Ustinya
Mikhailovna, on a Savras couple in a cart with one coachman, brought 100,000
thousand rubles in banknotes, received for Palna, at the bottom of a tea box.
Here
is a full story of this purchase.
Arkatovo was previously owned (in a share with other landowners) by the
grandmother of
Nadezhda Nikolaevna Moiseeva
,
the future wife of A.I.’s son,
Petr Alexandrovich Ilyin —
Nadezhda Sergeevna Moiseeva
(née
Bolkhovskaya). Arkatovo was the family estate of the Arkatovs and was
inherited by Nadezhda Sergeevna Moiseeva, Matyunin and Ozerov; According
to the property division, it left the Moiseevs' possession — and the heirs sold it
to Tille, a military doctor by profession.
Grandfather <
Petr Aleksandrovich
> said that Alexander Ivanovich had
a
tic-donlomreux
. “He suffered - terribly!” — said the grandfather, covering his
eyes with his hand. After retiring, my great-grandfather <
Aleksander
Ivanovich
> lived in Palna until 1832-33. Palna was a small estate, but
landscaped by the efforts of Marya Petrovna, with two magnificent orchards
and a modest horse farm. In 1825, she expanded the farm, purchasing from
her husband’s cousin, Alexander Stepanovich Ilyin, for 15 thousand in bank
notes, his share of the estate, in total “17 serfs, 831/2 quarters of land and 5
quarters of wasteland”, i.e. about 130 acres.
Having buried his father and feeling that he himself would not live long,
Alexander Ivanovich decided to leave the Oryol province so that after his
death his wife would not remain lonely in a land foreign to her. Therefore,
leaving
Marya Petrovna
’s “maid of honor” - Ustinya Mikhailovna — in Palna,
the whole family, except for the eldest son Vladimir, who studied in Moscow,
went in 1834, first to Moscow, and then, probably, even very soon moved to
live in the Kazan province, where all of Marya Petrovna’s relatives lived. We
came to Moscow to visit “grandmother Durnovo,” says the grandfather,
Alexander Ivanovich’s maternal aunt.
The old woman lived in a large house, and the guests lived in the outbuilding.
“Come, darlings, to have lunch,” she invited, “today I have soup from live
chicken.” That's all my grandfather remembers about her.
When an opportunity appeared in Kazan to buy Arkatovo from Tille, they
wrote to Ustinya Mikhailovna asking her to sell Palna, giving her a power of
attorney, etc.
.
.. In addition to Ustinya Mikhailovna, the Ilyins, after the sale of M. Palna, left
themselves another serf family: Andrei with his wife and five sons, whose
names were Nikolai, Alexander, Ilya, Lukyan and Mikhail. Subsequently,
when grandfather was promoted to officer, Alexander (who was also in the
corps with him) became his valet, Mikhail a coachman, and Lukyan a cook,
who received his initial culinary education in the house of
Tatyana Petrovna
Zheltukhina
, and further improvement in the St. Petersburg English Club .
Subsequently he was the headman. Ilya was a clerk.
From
Petr Ivanovich Zisserman
memoirs
It’s hard to believe the memories: literally on
the next page, grandfather Petr
Alexandrovich again talks about the same
trip of Maria Petrovna with her son, not to
Moscow, but to St. Petersburg.
My grandfather and grandmother <
Alexander Ivanovich and Maria Petrovna
>
were known for their gentle attitude towards their serfs. I was positively
testified that the usual punishments of that time, flogging in the stable, were
extremely rare and were caused by extreme necessity.
From
Boris Petrovich Ilyin
memoirs
Military Service
Entered
military
service
in
the
Tambov
Infantry
Regiment
on
03/13/1799
as
a
sword
belt-ensign
until
03/09/1803,
ensign
until
1804,
second
lieutenant
until
1805,
lieutenant
until
1806;
left
service
on
September
24,
1806,
according
to
the
Highest
Manifesto,
was
in
the
mobile
Zemstvo
army;
in
1808
-
staff
captain
of
the
Grenadier
Training
Battalion,
transferred
to
the
Finnish
battalion,
in
1809
-
captain,
in
1810
-
transferred
to
the
Grenadier
Training
Battalion,
major
-
1812-1816.
Due
to
illness,
he
was
dismissed on January 20, 1816 as a lieutenant colonel.
ALEXANDER
IVANOVICH
1785 - 1834
MARIA
PETROVNA
VESHNIAKOV
PETR
ALEXANDROVICH
1827 - 1910
NATALYA
ALEXANDROVNA
GAUSS
VLADIMIR
ALEXANROVICH
1815 - 1883/84
VARVARA
ALEXANDROVNA
1819 - 1847
ILYIN
IVAN SILOVICH
DURNOVO
OLIMPIADA
AVKSENTIEVNA
BORIS
PETROVICH
SHCZERBAKOVA
NATALYA
NIKANOROVNA
NATALYA
BORISOVNA
Alexander Ivanovich devoted himself to caring for the Arkatovo and
Petrovo
estates, including the construction of a new manor house in Petrovo.
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