Stepan Nikitich Begichev

Stepan Nikitich Begichev was a Russian colonel and memoirist.

Family

His father was Captain Nikita Begichev and his mother was Alexandra Kologrivova. He had one brother, writer Dmitry Nikitich Begichev and one sister, Elizaveta Nikitichna Begicheva (Yablochkova). She was a writer, and grandmother of Pavel Yablochkov, inventor of the Yablochkov candle electric carbon arc lamp
He married Anna Baryshnikova on 29 April 1823. They had 6 children: Nikita, Nadezhda , Yekaterina in a marriage Tilicheeva, Ivan, Dmitry, and Maria.
He married Maria Ivanovna Lelu in 1844.

18 November 1795—Enrolled into Page Corps
8 February 1802 -- Cornet of Alexandria Hussars
21 August 1802—Transferred into Olonetsky Musketeer Regiment as an ensign
21 September 1803 -- Dismissed
1807—Joined the Tula Police Force
13 January 1813—Re-enrolled as a Cornet & was appointed as an adjutant to his relative, General Alexey S Kologrivov
21 May 1813—Transferred to the Cavalry Regiment in the same rank of Cornet
1814—Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant
26 January 1817—Deployed to the front
13 March 1818—Staff-Captain
13 March 1819—Captain
9 July 1819—Colonel of Tiraspol Horse-Jaeger Regiment
15 September 1825—Retired as Colonel

While living in Moscow, his house was visited by close friends, including Prince Vladimir Odoyevsky, Denis Davydov, Wilhelm Küchelbecker, Alexey Verstovsky and Alexander Griboyedov. In 1819 he had 175 'souls' assigned to his properties. He was a member of the Military Society and the Union of Welfare. He was buried in village Yekaterininskaya of Epifanskie County of Tula Oblast.