Nikolai Lukash


Nikolai Yevgenyevich Lukash was an Imperial Russian military officer and politician who took part in, among others, the Napoleonic Wars and the fights against the November Uprising.

Parentage

Lukash was the illegitimate son of Alexander Pavlovich Romanov, the future Emperor Alexander I of Russia and one of his lovers, Sophia Sergeievna Vsevolozhskaya, daughter of Sergei Alekseyevich Vsevolozhsky and wife Yekaterina Andreyevna Zinovyeva, who married Prince Ivan Sergeyevich Meshchersky, by whom she had an issue.

Biography

Already in 1807, he joined the military in the rank of sergeant, and he took part in fights against Napoleon's invasion of Russia. In 1817, Lukash was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. As the commanding officer of the Lutsk Grenadier Regiment, he took part in the Battle of Warsaw (1831) where he was promoted lieutenant-general of the Russian Army. In 1837, he was made chief of staff of the 6th Infantry Corps.
In 1853, he quit military service and was made the governor of Tiflis Governorate. In 1859, he became a member of Senate and continued in service of the Russian state in various parts of the empire, notably in the Caucasus. He died on 20 January 1868 in Moscow and was buried at the Simonov Monastery.

Marriages and issue

He married firstly Princess Alexandra Lukanichna Guidianova, daughter of Prince Luka Stepanovich Guidianov and wife Maria Ilyinichna Isakova, and had four children:
He married secondly Princess Alexandra Mikhailovna Schakhovskaya, daughter of Prince Mikhail Aleksandrovich Shakhovskoy and wife Countess Yelisavyeta Sergeyevna Golovina, and had one son:
  • Mikhail Nikolaievich Lukash, retired from his regiment in 1866, married, and had four children:
  • * Barbara Mikhailovna Lukash, married Count Calogero Mazzoli
  • * Nikolai Mikhailovich Lukash
  • * Alexander Mikhailovich Lukash
  • * Mikhail Mikhailovich Lukash