Aleksey Buturlin

Alexey Petrovich Buturlin (January 13, 1802 – January 26, 1863) was a lieutenant general, Governor of Yaroslavl, senator; brother of Dmitry and Mikhail Buturlin. The owner of the large family estate Marinka. Biography The son of a retired captain of the Izmailovsky Life Guards Regiment Pyotr Buturlin (1763–1828) and Maria Shakhovskaya (d. April 22, 1803). Received a good education at home. Having started his service in 1819 as a cadet in the Life Guards Jaeger Regiment, he soon, of his own free will, was transferred to the Chevalier Guard Regiment and in 1822, he was promoted to cornet. In 1829, with the rank of His Majesty's aide–de–camp, after the conclusion of peace with Turkey, Buturlin was sent to the active army to be handed over from the Sovereign Field Marshal's baton to the Commander–in–Chief Count Diebitsch. Since 1830, he was under the Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich in Poland, where the next year he took part in the suppression of the uprising and, for the storming of Warsaw, was awarded the Order of Saint Vladimir, 4th Degree.