Semyonov S.M.

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 Semyonov Stepan Mikhailovich (1789-1852)

Stepan Mikhailovich was educated in Oryol seminary and studied at Moscow University. S.M. Semyonov was a member of The Union of Salvation (Soyuz Spaseniya) and The Union of Welfare (Soyuz Blagodenstviya) and was one of the leaders of the Northern society. After the suppression of the Decembrist revolt he was arrested in Moscow on December 29, 1825.

After being arrested he was kept in the Pyotr and Paul Fortress (Petropavlovskaya krepost) for more than 9 months. “By an imperial order” on October 26, 1826 he was sent to exile “for employment” without losing his title.

On November 19, 1826 he was sent to work at the disposal of governor general of Western Siberia and was assigned to the office of Omsk regional council, from Omsk he was sent to Ust Kamenogorsk and appointed stolonachalnik of the district in February 1828.

On the whole Stepan Mikhailovich Semyonov spent 3 years in Ust-Kamenogorsk: since February 1827 till March 1830 with short intervals. In 1829 S.M. Semyonov assigned to accompany Baron Alexandr Humboldt, a famous German naturalist, in his trip to Western Siberia. However, a good reference to Stepan Mikhailovich’s erudition given by the traveler to Nicholas I of Russia had a negative result: S.M.Semyonov was transferred to outland Turinsk where he worked in Turinsk chancellery. Since 1832 he was the stolonachalnik of the chancellery of Western Siberia headquarters, since 1841 – the counselor of the frontier administration of Siberian kirgizs and soon he was appointed the provincial government counselor and held this rank till his death. He died in Tobolsk and was buried in the city cemetery Zavalnoye.

The written sources collection relict of East Kazakhstan regional museum of history gives the evidence of Stepan Mikhailovich staying in our city. This is the parish register of the first half of XIX century. S.M.Semyonov was registered as “godfather” five times in 1827-1829. Thus a nobleman S.M.Semyonov “became related” with a future miner, a Cossack uryadnik and a servant.

The contemporaries of S.M. Semyonov remembered him as a man “with steady, independent and honest beliefs”.