Bryggen Alexander Fedorovich

(1792 - 1859). Participated in the War of 1812. It belonged to a masonic lodge of Peter the truth "and to the North Society. In 1825, Mr.. retired colonel and had to go abroad, but his wife's illness delayed him, and after 14 December he was arrested. Bryggen has been convicted of that "he knew about the intent to kill the Czar, and belonged to a secret society with knowledge of the purpose onogo," reckoned the seventh grade and a final verdict awarded to 4 th years' hard labor and permanent exile. In 1828, Mr.. transferred to a settlement in Pelym; in 1836, Mr.. moved to Barrow, where from 1838 to 1848. served as a minister in the court chancellery, with the 1848. was assessor of the Kurgan Court in 1850. transferred assessor to the Turin court for "inappropriate to his title judgments and arrogant behavior". Briggenu, best man, honest, educated, it was difficult to get along in society Siberian officials of the old time. In 1856, Mr.. Bryggen returned to Russia. Judging by his letter to Prince Eugene Obolensky (published in "Russian Antiquities", 1901, N 2), it was a man of great intelligence, with the living intellectual interests, the religious-minded, an expert on the Holy Scriptures. In 1840 he was engaged in the translation of Julius Caesar and the manuscript translation sold Zhukovsky for publication. But the translation in the press did not appear due to illness and death of Zhukovsky.