Archive Of Prince F. A. Kurakin. Book ten.

Archive Of Prince F. A. Kurakin. Book ten.
Moscow. Typo-lithography by N. I. Grosman and G. A. Vendelstein, 1902. XIV, IV, 478, [2] p. Hardcover with blind-stamping and gold embossing, silk ribbon, slightly-larger format (17 x 24 cm). Moderately worn and dirty binding, tarnished gilding; slightly dirty sawn-off; otherwise (block, flyleaf) - in excellent condition.

[Prince Fyodor Alekseyevich Kurakin (April 18, 1842-January 19, 1914) was a Penza local historian from the Kurakin family, a member of the Saratov provincial scientific archive Commission. Publisher of family archives stored in the family estate Nadezhdino. 

The youngest son of Prince Alexey Borisovich Kurakin (1809-1872) and Princess Yulia Fyodorovna Golitsyn (1814-1881). On his father's great-grandson of Prince A. B. Kurakin, on his mother-Prince S. F. Golitsyn and Prince A. A. Prozorovsky. He was named after his grandfather, Fyodor Golitsyn. After finishing his education in the page corps, on June 16, 1861, he entered the cavalry regiment as a cornet.

In 1862, he was promoted to Lieutenant and on October 24, 1864, was appointed regimental Treasurer. On March 27, 1866, he was promoted to staff captain and dismissed from service on September 6 due to domestic circumstances. On January 22, 1868, he was appointed to serve under the commander of the troops of the Moscow district for special assignments, with the renaming of majors. In 1871, he was appointed adjutant to the Kiev Governor-General and in 1873 was promoted to Colonel. On February 4, 1875, he was dismissed from service with a uniform. 

Prince Kurakin was known in society for his debauched lifestyle and obscene antics, for one of which Alexander II expelled him from St. Petersburg. While living in his estate Nadezhdino, he studied the richest family archive, which he published at his own expense. The publication of 10 volumes of documents and 3 volumes of collections of great interest to the history of the XVIII and XIX centuries was carried out first under the editorship of M. I. Semevsky, and after V. N. Smolyaninov. For his work, Prince Kurakin was made an honorary member of the Moscow archaeological Institute on December 17, 1890. 

After the sale of the Nadezhdinsky estate, from 1904 he lived in Moscow in his own house on Novaya Basmannaya street, 6, where he died on January 19, 1914.]