Ivan Inzov

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Ivan Nikitich Inzov (

Nativity Cathedral
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Inzov's obscure origin and booming career, in combination with his physical likeness to Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, led some of his contemporaries to suspect that his father was Emperor Paul I of Russia (who was only 14 years his senior).[1] In the early 1820s, Alexander Pushkin was one of his subordinates at Chişinău (then Kishinev). In the words of Henri Troyat, Inzov "looked upon Pushkin as a being set apart, who must be handled carefully".[2] He was buried in a purpose-built mausoleum in Bolhrad, a city he had founded.

He also served as a temporary Governor General of

Novorossiia for nearly a year, from July 1822 to May 23, 1823, between Governors General Alexandre Langeron and Mikhail Vorontsov.[3]

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Notes

  1. ^ Lydia Lambert, Willard Ropes Trask. Pushkin, Poet and Lover. Doubleday, 1946. P. 84.
  2. ^ H. Troyat. Pushkin: A Biography (1950). P. 149.
  3. . hardcover; , paperback reprint.

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Government offices
Preceded by Governor-General of Novorossiya
and Viceroy of Bessarabia Region

1822 – 1823
Succeeded by