An invitation from the Chief Marshal to Prince Ivan Viktorovich Baryatinsky and his wife to a ball in the Pavilion ...

An invitation from the Chief Marshal to Prince Ivan Viktorovich Baryatinsky and his wife to a ball in the Pavilion of the Imperial Hermitage.
"By order of Their Imperial Majesties, the Chief Marshal has the honor to inform you of the invitation to attend a ball in the Pavilion of the Imperial Hermitage on Sunday, March 3, at 8 3/4 o'clock." St.

Petersburg. Sent on February 27, 1891. Size 13.4 x 19.7 cm.

Prince Ivan Viktorovich Baryatinsky (1857-1915) - Russian public figure and politician, member of the Third State Duma from the Kursk province.

A representative of the princely family of Baryatinsky. The son of Victor Ivanovich Baryatinsky, a participant in the Battle of Sinop and the Sevastopol Defense, and the nephew of Field Marshal A. I. Baryatinsky. Landowner of the Lgovsky uyezd (4000 desyatins).

He graduated from the Nikolaev marine classes. He served in the navy for about twelve years, making one circumnavigation of the world and several foreign voyages. As a midshipman, he participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878: he was on the Danube in a detachment of the Guards crew on mine boats, participated in the winter crossing of the Guards crew through the Balkans.

In 1885, he retired with the rank of lieutenant commander and settled in the estates of the Kursk province, where he devoted himself to farming and social activities. He was elected a vowel of the Sudzhansky uyezd (since 1885), the Lgovsky uyezd and the Kursk Provincial (since 1897) zemstvo assemblies, and an honorary justice of the peace in both uyezds. In 1892, he was elected the Lgovsky district leader of the nobility, in which position he served for 4 three years. He became one of the founders and chairman of the Lgov Agricultural Society. In 1902, he was elected an honorary citizen of Lgov. He was a court chamberlain. He was a member of the Central Council of the All-Russian Union of Land Owners (1905), participated in the congresses of the United Nobility.

In 1907, he was elected a member of the State Duma from the Kursk Province. He was a member of the right-wing faction (1st session), the moderate-right faction (2nd session), and from the 3rd session-the Russian national faction. In May 1911, he joined the independent nationalist group of P. N. Krupensky. He was a friend of the chairman of the commission for the consideration of the draft law on hunting, as well as a member of the commissions: on state defense and on local self-government.

He was a member of the Kursk provincial department of the "Union of the Russian People". In 1910, he became a founding member of the All-Russian National Club, and was a member of the Council of Elders of the club. During the First World War, he was a special representative of the Red Cross in the 2nd Army.

He died in 1915. He was buried in the family crypt of the Baryatinsky Maryino estate. After the revolution, the crypt was destroyed.

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