Prince Vladimir Baryatinsky
Prince Vladimir Anatolyevich Baryatinsky (31 [19] December 1843, Berlin - 12 December [30 November] 1914, St. Petersburg) - Russian military and court figure from the princely family of Baryatinsky, General of Infantry (1906), Adjutant General (1893), Ober-Gofmeister at the court of the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and chief of the 5th company of the Life Guards 4th Rifle Regiment. He took part in the Polish Company and the Russo-Turkish War, for his military distinction in which he was awarded the Golden Sabre ‘For Bravery’. He was born on 19 December 1843 in Berlin. Descended from the princely family of Baryatinsky. Son of Adjutant General Prince Anatoly Ivanovich Baryatinsky (1821-1881) from his marriage to maid of honour Olimpiada Vladimirovna Kablukova (1822-1904). On the father's side he was a descendant of the diplomat Prince I. S. Baryatinsky and Field Marshal Prince of Holstein. On his mother - Lieutenant-General V. M. Kablukov and Count Marshal Prince of Holstein. M. Kablukov and Count P. V. Zavadovsky. He was a nephew of Field Marshal General Prince A. I. Baryatinsky. His younger brother Alexander (1846-1914) - General of Infantry, military governor of the Dagestan region. On 25 August 1862, after receiving a home education, he entered the service as a non-commissioned
officer in the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment. From 1863 he took part in the Polish campaign. On 6 August 1863 he was promoted to warrant officer of the Guards and on 30 August of the same year he was promoted to lieutenant of the Guards. On 19 September 1864 he was promoted to lieutenant of the Guards. From 1864 to 1866 he was in the service of the heir Caesarevich Alexander Alexandrovich. Since 1866, for participation and military distinction shown in the Central Asian campaigns was awarded the Order of St. Anne, 4th degree with the inscription ‘For bravery’ and St. Vladimir, 4th degree with swords and bow. On 30 August 1867 he was promoted to staff-captain of the Guards. By the Highest Order of 8 March 1868 for distinction in the battles at the capture of Khodjent he was awarded the Golden Sabre with the inscription ‘For Bravery’. From 1866 to 1879 he was adjutant of Tsesarevich Alexander. On 30 August 1872 he was promoted to captain of the Guards. Since 1877, a participant in the Russo-Turkish War, for his military distinctions was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree with swords and on 30 August 1877 was promoted to the rank of colonel. On 6 December 1879 he was awarded the rank of adjutant. From 1879 to 1883 - commander of the 4th Life Guards Rifle Battalion. In 1883 he was promoted to major-general for distinction in service and appointed head of the Imperial Hunt, receiving the court rank of jägermeister of the Imperial Court. From 1889 he was attached to the Imperial General Quarters and was enrolled in His Imperial Majesty's retinue. From 23 October (4 November) 1890 to 4 August (16 August) 1891 he was the head of the eastern journey of Heir Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich. On 29 April [11 May] 1891, he was with the Tsesarevich during an assassination attempt while visiting Japan. On 24 March 1896, he was awarded the rank of Adjutant General and appointed to serve under the Dowager Empress Maria Fyodorovna; at the same time, from 1913 he was chief of the 5th Company of the Life Guards 4th Rifle Regiment. On 13 April 1897 he was promoted to lieutenant-general for distinction in service. On 6 December 1906 he was promoted to the rank of General of Infantry for distinction in service.
The 4th Rifle Battalion of the Imperial Guards is a rifle regiment of the Russian Imperial Guards. The regiment's holiday was 6 December (St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Day). On 25 October (6 November) 1854 Emperor Nicholas I ordered to form the Imperial Family Rifle Regiment for the Crimean War from peasants of the imperial estates of Novgorod, Arkhangelsk and Vologda provinces. The regiment was formed on 21 July (2 August) 1855. In December 1855 the rifle regiment was moved to Odessa to cover the city in case of landing of the Anglo-French landing force. However, from the very first days the typhus diseases started: during the 4 months of anchorage the regiment lost 1,001 personnel (out of 3,200), and never participated in combat operations. In 1856 the regiment of riflemen was assigned to the Guards Corps on the rights of the Young Guards, and on 1 (13) October it was disbanded for peacetime. Officers and lower ranks went to form the Leib-Guards Rifle Battalion of the Imperial Family, which was stationed in Gatchina. In 1863 the battalion took part in the suppression of the Polish uprising, being stationed in the Vilna Military District. On 31 August (12 September) 1870 the battalion was detached to the newly formed Guards Rifle Brigade under the command of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, and on 20 August (1 September) 1871 it was renamed the Life Guards 4th Imperial Family Rifle Battalion. The battalion took part in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878.
Baryatinsky are a Russian princely family, a branch of the Chernigov princes. The family is included in the Velvet Book. The ancestor is Prince Alexander Andreevich (XVI tribe from Rurik), son of Prince Andrei Vsevolodovich Mezetsky (d. c. 1443), who received the Boryatinskaya volost in Meshchovsky uyezd (future Kaluga province) (on the banks of the Klyutoma river). From three of his four sons - Princes Grigory, Fyodor and Lev Alexandrovich - three branches of a family have gone. Further, the secondary branch of Chernigov Princes, many members of which served Galician Princes. In the middle of XVI century were usual representatives of an upper layer of provincial nobility and did not receive, as a rule, appointments recorded in discharges. Were not very large landlords, in the middle of XVI century one of prn. Boryatinsky was written down with a salary of 600 quarters, probably at other members of a sort salary were less. In XVII century Baryatinsky were included in the list of clans receiving boyar rank in absentia. In XVIII century also occupied high posts. In the genealogy of Chernigov Princes, which is in ‘Velvet’ and other genealogical books it is shown that son Michael Vsevolodovich Chernigovsky has named the fifth son Prince Jury who
was the Prince of Tarus. At prince Jury the second son, prince Vsevolod, had a grandson - prince Alexander Andreevich Boryatinsky whose descendants, princes Boryatinsky, served the Russian throne in noble ranks and were granted from sovereigns estates. According to F. I. Miller, the following princes descended from the Boryatinsky: Asovets, Barashevs, Spyachevs, Stokolosnye, Surovs, Tokmakovs, and Shestovs.
Awards: Insignia, sash and star of the Imperial Order of Saint Anna, stars of the Imperial Order of Saint Prince Vladimir, the Imperial Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky and the Imperial Order of Saint Stanislaus.
