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{{Short description|Moscow Civil Governor}}
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'''Grigory Grigorievich Spiridov''' (1758–1822) was the [[Moscow]] chief of police, the actual state councilor.<ref name=":0"/> In 1813–15 – [[Moscow Governorate|Moscow Civil Governor]].
Representative of the noble family of the Spiridovs. The youngest of the four sons of Catherine's naval commander [[Grigory Spiridov]] from his marriage to Anna Nesterova. He began his service as a page, for a long time was an officer in the [[Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment|Semyonovsky Guards Regiment]], with the rank of captain he took part in the [[Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)|Swedish War]] under [[Catherine the Great|Catherine II]], and at the end of this campaign he retired with the rank of [[brigadier]].<ref name=":0">[http://www.museum.ru/museum/1812/Persons/Russ/ra_st35.html Grigory Spiridov. Museums of Russia]</ref>
Moscow Chief of Police Spiridov was appointed in 1798 under Emperor [[Paul I of Russia|Paul]] and held this position for three years until 1800, when his disordered health forced him to retire.<ref>[https://petrovka-38.com/arkhiv/item/politsii-moskvy-novoj-byt Anna Shamonina. There Will Be Police in the New Moscow]</ref> But the [[Napoleonic Wars]] once again awakened a warlike spirit in him, and he, already a relatively old man, entered in 1805 and in 1812 as a volunteer in the Pereslavl Militia and in its ranks during the [[French invasion of Russia|Patriotic War]] participates in numerous skirmishes with units of the French Army.<ref>[https://azbyka.ru/otechnik/Spravochniki/russkij-biograficheskij-slovar-tom-19/125 Grigory Spiridov. Russian Biographical Dictionary. Volume 19]</ref>
After the expulsion of the French, Spiridov, at the request of his friend Count [[Fyodor Rostopchin]], was first appointed commandant and then civil governor of Moscow.<ref name=":0"/> As the latter, he contributed a lot to the restoration of the city, destroyed by the French and the Russians themselves. According to a contemporary, Spiridov in the new post:<ref>Letters from Maria Volkova to Varvara Lanskaya // Bulletin of Europe. 1874. Volume 49 – Book 9 – Page 140</ref>
{{Cquote|He behaved importantly, in a governor's way, he always had a passion to contradict everyone, with him it was impossible to say a word, he had a pretense to know everything and allowed himself to express his judgments, but no one doubted his honesty.}}
Along with the resignation of Count Rostopchin, the [[Active State Councillor|Actual State Councillor]] Spiridov also left the service. He died on May 4, 1822, at the age of 64.<ref>[http://impereur.blogspot.com/2014/03/1758-1822.html Grigory Spiridov. Napoleon and the Revolution]</ref>
==References==
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==Sources==
*[https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/РБС/ВТ/Спиридов,_Григорий_Григорьевич Spiridov, Grigory Grigorievich] // [[Russian Biographical Dictionary]]: in 25 Volumes – Saint Petersburg, 1902 – Volume 12: Obesyaninov – Ochkin – Page 251
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