Sergey Yaguzhinsky

Count Sergey Pavlovich Yaguzhinsky (Yagushinsky) (; 22 April 1731 – 22 February 1806) was a Chamberlain, lieutenant general (1764), owner of the Sylvinsky and Utkinsky factories, as well as a cloth factory in Pavlovskaya Sloboda. The second and last Count Yaguzhinsky. Early years The only son of Prosecutor General Pavel Yaguzhinsky and his wife Anna Gavrilovna, daughter of Chancellor Gavriil Golovkin. At the age of 5, he lost his father, after another 7 years, his mother was exiled to Siberia in the Lopukhin Case (with confiscation of property). The stepfather of the young count Mikhail Bestuzhev, being a diplomat, was constantly abroad. After the reprisal of his mother, Yaguzhinsky was sent on a Grand Tour of Europe under the assumed name "Pavlov". During his stay in Vienna, the Russian envoy Ludovik Lanchinsky found educators for a "capable and sufficient person", and Empress Elizaveta Petrovna allocated a pension of 1,500 rubles for his maintenance, later increased to 3,500 rubles. "Yaguzhinsky is humble and constant, and studies very diligently from morning to evening, why is it necessary for him to have rest", Lanchinsky reported to Saint Petersburg. Due to the meager maintenance, the young nobleman had to save on everything. "In Yaguzhinsky's wardrobe there was only one full set of outfit (hat, caftan, camisole, culottes, stockings, a pair of shoes and a sword). We rented an apartment for 65 guilders a month and one and a half guilders per person for lunch and dinner every day". In August 1750, Yaguzhinsky expressed a desire to return to Russia, about which he wrote to the Empress: