alexander kristoforovich benkendor, a brave general in 1812, he had a great friend sergei grigorievichof course, they were separated in 1825, because sergei grigorievich volkonsky was one of the leaders of the decembrist uprising, alexander kristoforovich benkendor, the closest one. ally of emperor nicholas i actively participated in the trial of the decembrists and then headed the third department, which should it was necessary to monitor, strictly monitor dissent, so that any introduced rules were not violated, and so on and so forth. this is such an amazing combination of destinies, and we even created an exhibition called two generals, where we told: about general volkonsky, about general benckendorff, vich, well, we continue, which means we are again returning to nikolai aleksandrovich bestuzhev, whom for that, that so to speak, he forged the rings, these are truly amazing things, memory is a reason to remember, to talk, we are still grateful to him for portrait gallery that he created, he was a very good artist, he took lessons, and he sketched prohibited people there, well, like

, alexander kristoforovich benkendorf, brave general 1812 year, he had a great friend, divided the yearergei grigorievich volkonsky was one of the leaders of the decembrist uprising, and alexander khristoforovich benkendor, the closest comrade-in-arms of emperor nicholas i, was actively participated in the trial of the decembrists, then headed the third department. for the fact that, so to speak, he forged the rings, uh, these are really amazing things, a memory, a reason to remember, talk, we are also grateful to him for the portrait gallery. which he created, he was a very good artist, he took lessons, and he sketched the decembrists there, and also sketched the surrounding areas where they lived, so now we can see all these portraits, there are more, more than 100 portraits, well firstly his self-portrait, which is at the very beginning we are here they could see, they just showed, a portrait of his brother, portraits of other decembrists, but here’s an interesting story: let’s talk about this, in one minute, in one day , the manager of the third department, alexander nikolaevich mor