Cheremyshevo
The village of Cheremyshevo has been known since 1596, and was also
mentioned as Bogorodskoye (after the Kazan-Bogoroditskaya Church, built in
1741). It belonged to the princes Kropotkin, then to the princes Bolkhovsky. At
the end of the 18th century, it was inherited by
Nadezhda Sergeevna
Velikopolskaya
(Moiseeva, née Princess Bolkhovskaya), and from her to her
son
Nikolay Alekseevich Moiseev
. Then it was bought by
Petr Gavrilovich
Ossokin
(see below the dramatic story of this).
Grandfather <
Nikolay Alekseevich Moiseev
> became addicted to large card
games and other excesses. By nature he was very gentle and enthusiastic.
Family life was unhappy, and there were many children. Of the estates that
belonged to my grandfather, he sold
Nadezhdino
and
Srednyaya Iya
,
Laishevsky district. In the end he had only Cheremyshevo left. True, it was
a rich estate with a luxurious house of 29 rooms. Grandfather won the forest
for this house in a card game from a landowner who owned the village of
Sobakino, Kazan district, where there was a huge pine forest. The house was
started on a grand scale, apparently when funds were still good, but already
from its interior decoration and furnishings it is clear that funds began to dry
up.
During the grandfather’s life, the family lived in Kazan during the winters.
After his death we had to downsize and began to live in Cheremyshevo. The
grandfather's nephew, the son of his half-sister Praskovya Ermolaevna
Velikopolskaya, married to Gavrila Ivanovich Osokin,
Petr Gavrilovich
, was
appointed guardian of the minors. He played a huge role in the family,
uncontrollably managing the property of the orphans and their fate for many
years.
When the children grew up, they left the guardianship of Pyotr Gavrilovich,
but did not cease to be dependent on him.
<
Varvara Ivanovna's only son
> Boris Nikolaevich was incapable and spoiled.
He lived in Cheremyshevo. He traveled to Kazan infrequently, caroused and
courted actresses, but was very afraid of Petr Gavrilovich, since he continued
to keep him and the adult under a tight rein.
These unfriendly relations undoubtedly led to the catastrophic ruin of the
unfortunate uncle.
Unsuitable friends and the tedious boredom of an idle village life drove his
uncle to complete ruin and a madhouse. Cheremyshevo, which contained
more than 2,000 acres, although it was mortgaged, was still of significant
value, and not only his uncle, but also all his other family members could live
comfortably. Due to his inability to manage his business, there was not
enough income, the uncle began to borrow small amounts on promissory
notes from Jews and at the same time for a long time and carefully hid his
scams from Petr Gavrilovich. I was told that the original amount that my uncle
borrowed was 3,000 rubles. An ordinary story began with the rewriting of
notes with the addition of interest to them. The Jew, who gave the money,
graciously made all sorts of concessions for a long time, and when he reached
a certain amount that could still be received from Cheremyshevo, completely
unexpectedly for the family, he presented the notes for collection. I don’t
know the amount of the debt — but it struck my grandmother <
Varvara
Ivanovna Moiseeva, Boris Nikolaevich’s mother
> like thunder and infuriated
Petr Gavrilovich.
Something dark and unrecognised began here. Although the debt was large,
but, of course, Cheremyshevo could have withstood it twice with skill. Petr
Gavrilovich declared that he was saving the situation, taking over
Cheremyshevo and paying off Boris Nikolaevich’s debts, but so that the latter
would immediately leave Kazan wherever he wanted out of sight. It seems
that Lyudmila <
daughter of Petr Gavrilovich, future Baroness Buxhoeveden
>
begged her father not to give everyone’s beloved Cheremyshevo into the
wrong hands. I don’t have exact data, I can only say that then, and even after,
they said that Cheremyshevo went to Petr Gavrilovich for nothing.
In a word, Boris Nikolaevich lost literally everything and entered military
service again with the rank of staff captain in the reserve battalion in Penza.
He didn't live there long — I think no more than two years. Mother <
Nadezhda
Nikolaevna Moiseeva, sister of Boris Nikolaevich
> brought her brother back to
Kazan and he was placed in a hospital. An uncle in Penza drank, fell ill and
ended up going mad. Soon after arriving in Kazan, he died.
The family owes the death of this unfortunate man mainly to Petr Gavrilovich.
Before the purchase of Cheremyshevo, Petr Gavrilovich was considered a very
rich man. Perhaps this was an accident, but it was not the crystal purity of
Cheremyshevo’s purchase that was the turn in his affairs in a bad direction.
Gradual ruin began, and more than once they said that it was as if Petr
Gavrilovich had put some kind of cross on his well-being from this
Cheremyshevo, so dear and charming to the entire Moiseev family and all of
us.
From memoirs of
Boris Petrovich Ilyin
prince Sergy Borisovich
Bolkhovskoy
Nikolay Alexeevich
Moiseev
Petr Gavrilovich
Ossokin
Varvara Ivanovna
Moiseeva (Anikeeva)
Nadezda Nikolaevna
Ilyina (Moiseeva)
1970 —
287
2010 —
56
1782 —
227
1859 —
590
1908 —
821
1920 —
956
1949 —
487
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