Alexandre Remi

Alexandre Remi
Alexandre Remi
Native name	Реми, Александр Гаврилович
Born	(1809-08-30)August 30, 1809 Saint Petersburg
Died	September 27, 1871(1871-09-27) (aged 62) Novocherkassk
Allegiance	Russian
Service/branch	Cavalry
Rank	Mayor-general
Unit	1st Bugsk uhlan regiment
Awards	Order of St. Stanislaus
Relations	Mikhail Lermontov

Alexander Gavrilovich Remy Russian: Реми, Александр Гаврилович (8 August 1809- 27 September 1871) was a Russian mayor-general, brother officer of Russian poet Mikhail Lermontov.

Alexander Remy was born in 1809 in the city of Saint Petersburg into a Russian noble family Remy (family) of Swiss descent. The ancestor of Remy came to Russia in 1787, when the officer Jean-Gabriel Remy entered the Engineering Corps in Saint Petersburg.

Remy began his military service in cavalry in 1826. Until 1835 he served at the 1st Bugsk

. The cigar-case presented to Remy by Lermontov may be viewed at the Tarkhany museum (музей-заповедник «Тарханы»).

Alexander Remy participated in several wars and was decorated with

Taganrog Theater and of the Charity society. He died in 1871 in a train accident near Novocherkassk

.

The mansion of Alexander Remy housed the newly married couple of Pavel Chekhov and Yevgeniya Chekhova, the parents of Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who rented one of the rooms in 1854–1855. This gave Anton Chekhov the motif for his story "The House with an Attic" in 1896.

References

• Гаврюшкин О. "По старой Греческой", Таганрог, 2003 г.