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Alexander Andreyevich
BEKLYESHOV
1745–1808
Military Governor of Moscow and Head of the Civil Sphere in Moscow and the Moscow Gubernia
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1 May 1804 – 3 August 1806
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Beklyeshov came from an old noble family. In 1764 he graduated with distinction from the Shlyakhetny Infantry Cadet Corps, and by 1789 served to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He fought in the Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774.
The first administrative post in Beklyeshov's career was that of governor-general of Orlov and Kursk (1790-1796), after which he became military governor of Kamenets-Podolsky (1796-1798) and was appointed chief of the Vladimir musketeer regiment. During this period Paul I raised Beklyeshov to the rank of infantry general and appointed him military governor-general of Little Russia, also putting him in charge of the civil administration of the Kiev gubernia.
From the very outset of his administration of Moscow, Beklyeshov took measures against excessive price rises on bread, and completed much that had been started by his predecessor. In 1805 the stone bridge over the Yauza was completed, and the following year saw the completion of the main buildings of the Pavlovsky and the Mariinsky Hospitals for the Poor on Novaya Bozhedomka. The stone reinforcement of the Moskva River Embankment was also completed, while work continued on the aqueduct. The city's administrative system was further improved by a new staff list for the police-force drawn up by the Committee for Leveling City Taxes.
Poor health obliged Beklyeshov to request to be relieved of his duties. However, he retained a memorial of the Moscow period of his career in the diamond-studded order of St Andrew.
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