Brief biography of Kochubey

Kochubey Viktor Pavlovich - Prince, State Chancellor of the Interior - the nephew and pupil of the Catherine's Bebor, Kochubey owed him only career and practical preparation for state activity, but also a good education at that time, as well as some leading ideas, mainly in the field of foreign policy. In the city of Kochubey, he was counted on the Stockholm mission, in the city of being abroad, Kochubey devoted a lot of time to the completion of his education.

Kochubei, who managed to gain, with all the confused family and court relations of Catherine, her favor, Zubov, Paul and Alexander, was appointed Minister of Minister in Turkey. Kochubey was appointed a member of the College of Foreign Affairs and in the city of good relations of Kochubey and the Paul family, his position was made very difficult. Not wanting to break them for the sake of the sovereign, but daring to intercede in front of him behind his family, Kochubey was in disfunction of the emperor.

His uncle died at that time, and he resigned. Upon the death of Pavel Kochubey, it becomes close to Alexander, maintaining good relations with his mother. Kochubey was a member of the unspoken committee of Alexander, but, having occupied the position of the head of Russian foreign policy, stood somewhat apart from other members. At the same time, the liberalism of Kochubey was very moderate, and his caution is very great.

In an effort to preserve the freedom of action, Kochubey collided with Alexander, who succumbed to the influence of Prussia. Kochubey was appointed Minister of the Interior; With the assistance of Speransky, he organized his ministry, having expelled every shadow of collegiality from it, and carried out a great current work to satisfy the needs of the country, mainly food and industrial development; The Black Sea region owes him the attention of the authorities.

Kochubey’s lively interest, as a large landowner, in the world and trade with England and his long -standing personal sympathy for her gave the particular sharpness of his performance against the Tilsitic submission of the Russian policy of French. Kochubei became the leader of the "English party", the head of the "Civil Opposition" to Alexander. Savari discovered before Alexander Kochubey’s intercourse with the English ambassador, offensive persons personally for Alexander, and Kochubey was deprived of his post.

When the luck of the Finnish war pulled out the opponents of the French Union with the opportunity to talk about its fatality for the country, Kochubey was forced to abandon his intransigence. The path to retreat went through Speransky. Kochubey went to France and brought admiration for the organization of the Napoleonic monarchy from there. He remained, however, away from direct participation in the board and focused his forces on the reform of finance.

The duality of the position of Kochubey was affected in the relationship to him by Alexander and Society. Kochubey was appointed president of the short -lived Central Council, and in the city of Kochubey he went to this post with plans for quite wide administrative reforms, which, under the conditions created, could not fulfill. Disperring largely with Alexander’s domestic and foreign policy and failed to regain his Kochubey lost to himself, under the final celebration of Arakcheev, received dismissal.

Returning to the service only under Nicholas I, Kochubey was in G. found out with broken old plans at the top of the administrative staircase, Kochubey, where he could, saved at least the name and shadow of the former moderate liberal undertakings. He always remained faithful to him, and for gloomy, like Divov, figures of soulless retrograde Kochubey were always a terrible scarecrow.

In some issues, for example, peasant, theoretical determination even increased in Kochubey as the service was experience. True, the fear of practical measures never left him. He saw the dissatisfaction of significant segments of the population, and at the same time was afraid of reforms and even those hopes that could cause any frank speeches about reform. Not daring to the reforms that he wanted, because he himself was afraid of them or met them of power opposition from the sovereigns, their court and advisers, Kochubey was increasingly deepening into the neutral region of the state economy, although he clearly understood that great success here is unattainable without preliminary broad administrative, social and partly political reforms.

Probably, this is partly explained by his harsh attitude to the legal Soviet opposition - especially Mordvinov and Lyubetskoy. Kochubey was erected into princely dignity. Pick up N. Chechulina in the "Russian Bibliographic Dictionary". The works and publications of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, especially "Count I. Stroganov" and "Diplomatic Relations of Russia with France."