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The Knight PHILIPPE-XAVIER d'HORRER and his wife Marie-Reine KIEN had 8 children :
1° The Knight PHILIPPE-LEONARD d'HORRER, born in Strasbourg on July 11, 1774, was baptized at the Saint-Pierre parish in Strasbourg the same day. He emigrated with his father and his brother Marie-Joseph in 1792, fought the campaigns of 1792 and 1793 in the army of the Count of Wurmser as a volunteer, those of 1794 and 1795 as house marshall in the Chasseurs de Rohan (Doc-4 :Mention by Philippe d'Horrer concerning the military activity of Philippe-Xavier d'Horrer (April 1793) and Philippe Léonard d'Horrer, his son: April 1793). At the end of 1795, he passed into the corps of the Knights of the Crown, in the army of the Prince of Condé, where he remained until 1798. Resigned on October 20/31, 1798 and with a passport for Moscow, he settled with the rest of his family in Russia. He returned to service in the Russian army in 1806 with the rank of lieutenant, became a cavalry captain in 1808 and continued his services until 1814, after having fought the Moldavian campaigns for the Great Russian Army.
In 1815, when King Louis XVIII ascended the throne upon Napoleon's fall and recalled to France all the nobles who had emigrated to other countries, Marie-Joseph d'Horrer returned to France. He lived in 1816 in Paris, 61 rue de Grenelle, in the faubourg Saint-Germain. He attended in Moscow, on May 17, 1804, the wedding of his sister Isabelle with Philippe-Germain de Galland and in Saint Petersburg on May 17, 1804, at the celebration of his brother Marie-Joseph's Catholic marriage with Marie-Catherine-Wilhelmine de Rachette.
It seems certain that he signed (Ph. d'Horrer) with his father (d'Horrer father) the regulations of the Saint-Darie Asylum in Moscow. He died unmarried, before 1828.
2° The Knight, then Count MARIE-JOSEPH d'HORRER, who follows
3° SOPHIE-ANNE-MARIE-ROSALIE-REINE d'HORRER, said SOPHIA PHILIPPOVNA, born in Strasbourg on January 18, 1777, was baptized by her maternal uncle Father Jean-Léonard-Georges Kien, who later became the parish priest of Saint-Louis-des-Français in Moscow. She died in 1844. She married Dimitri Alexandrovitch JEREBTZOFF, State Councilor of the Russian Empire, from a noble family dating back to the early years of the 14th century, allied with the Romanoffs in the 17th century (1).
He was the son of Alexander Nicolaievitch Jerebtzoff and of Anna Petrovna Kroutschoff. He was registered in 1838 on the register of ancient nobility of Tver. Count Michel Boutourline reports in his memoirs that he 'was not a serious man, but an excellent musician and pleasant in society'. The couple had a property, "Lamicheznous", where they received. But their lifestyle of great lords ruined them in one generation, from 1838. Philippe-Xavier d'Horrer and his wife spent all their time with their daughter Sophie and their son-in-law. Sophie was a very pious Catholic, she exerted great influence over her husband and children, and she obtained that all but one became Catholics. Dimitri and Sophie died in Rome.
They had 6 children:
- ALEXANDRE DMITRIEVITCH JEREBTZOFF, who claimed, quite wrongly, that the d'Horrer family descended from the Princes of Vaudémont. He quarreled with everyone and often fought in duels, so that he was exiled to Perm when he returned to Russia.
- PIOTR DMITRIEVITCH JEREBTZOFF (1819-1892), buried with his brothers in the Catholic cemetery of Saint Petersburg.
- NICOLAÏ DMITRIEVITCH JEREBTZOFF (1820-1888).
- MIKHAÏL DMITRIEVITCH JEREBTZOFF (1824-1905), probably the only one who did not convert to Catholicism, was marshal of the Tsar's Court in 1899, which was an extremely important charge. He had married Princess Natalia Pavlovna GAGARIN, who died in 1909. They had as children:
4a. Alexei Jerebtzoff, gentleman of the Court in 1899.
4b. Dimitri Jerebtzoff, gentleman of the Court in 1899, chamberlain in 1910. He married Natalia Mikhailovna Leontieff, by whom he had one son and two daughters. - ANDREI DMITIEVITCH JEREBTZOFF (1829-1883)
- ANNA DMITRIEVNA JEREBTZOVA, married with Stanislas Valentinovitch CHEMIOTT
4° MARIE-ISABELLE (or ELISABETH) d'HORRER, born in Strasbourg on April 13, 1778, died in Saverne (Alsace) on April 21, 1836 without descendants. She married in Moscow, in the Saint-Louis-des-Français church, on May 17, 1804, Philippe-Germain de Galland (2), former captain in the Corps of Condé, Knight of Saint Louis, son of Thiébaud-Joseph de Galland, councillor to His Electoral Highness of Bavaria, and of Marie-Anne Schwendt (3).
Born in La Petite-Pierre, near Haguenau (low Alsace), on February 11, 1767, Philippe-Germain de Galland was a cadet-gentleman in the Royal-Liégeois Regiment in 1787. He took part in the Battle of Nancy in 1790, went into exile, and served in the campaigns from 1792 to 1801 in the Legion of Mirabeau, later known as Roger de Damas, and in the Bourbon Grenadiers, with the Army of Condé. He was wounded by a gunshot in 1793. A retired battalion commander, he was still living in 1829.
5° The Knight FRANCOIS-XAVIER d'HORRER, born in Strasbourg on June 28, 1779, died young, following a bet to swim across a river, where he drowned.
6° MARIE-ELEONORE-FLORENTINE d'HORRER, born in Strasbourg on November 7, 1780, died after 1828. She had married in Russia in 1798 Joseph KARRAS, doctor of medicine, surgeon-major at the Russian training of April 1798 in Prince of Condé’s army. He resigned on 7/16 November 1798, after having obtained for him and his wife a passport for Moscow.
They bought in Moscow a beautiful mansion, which had been the main house of the estate of Princes Galitzine, 10 Krivokolenny alley (The photo shows the entrance porch and right wing). Here Philippe-Xavier and Marie-Reine d'Horrer took refuge during the Moscow fire of 1812 which destroyed the city. Joseph Karras was still living in 1836 but died shortly after. One of their sons was an engineer officer in Moscow in 1830.
7° MARIE-LOUISE-JOSEPHINE d'HORRER, born in Strasbourg on September 28, 1782 died in Strasbourg the following year, on August 17, 1783.
8° The Knight ANDRE-PIERRE d'HORRER, born in Strasbourg on July 8, 1784, emigrated on May 1, 1794, aged 13. He appears on the controls of the Prince of Condé’s army on December 20, 1796, despite his young age, as a driver at the artillery crew park. He withdrew his certificate of service on September 13/5, 1798 in Dubno, and resigned from his job as a noble gunner a month later by taking a passport to Moscow. Witness in Moscow, on May 17, 1804, at the wedding of his sister Isabelle with Philippe-Germain de Galland, he died in 1806 or 1807, according to a letter from his father Philippe d'Horrer to the Prince of Condé in 1813 (Doc-8). He leaves a daughter, Sophie, married to ?. Aubert.
He was the "tutor" (I think it means "preceptor", like many Frenchmen in exile) of Dmitri Veneritinov, who wrote fascinating travel letters, in Russian but often in French, where he evokes the d'Horrer’s and their daughter Sophie. It is interesting to translate them automatically, because they show the real life of the aristocracy of that time : Dmitri Veneritinov' letters.
NOTES
1/ Jerebtzoff, or Gérebtzoff : Coat of arms: Parti, au 1 d'or à laa demi-aigle de sable, mouvant du parti ; au II de gueules à une sénestrochère armée d'argent, sortant d'une nuée et tenant une épée du même. Former nobility, of boyar origin, attested since the very beginning of the fourteenth century, going back to the boyar Theodore Akinfovitch Biakont of Chernigov who arrived in Moscow around 1300. They are inscribed in the sixth part (Ancient nobility) of the noble registers of Tver.
2/ de Galland : "D'azur au chevron d'or, surmonté d'un croissant d'argent et accompagné de trois roses du second émail ; couronne de comte" (Laîné, Archives de la Noblesse).
3/ Schwendt : "Coupé d'azur et de gueules, à la bisse d'argent brochante sur le tout" (Laîné, Archives de la Noblesse). According to Valette (Catalogue of the French nobility), this family, still existing at the French Restoration, would have died out before the end of the 19th century. "The exploits, the way of life, the places where they lived, the family relationships they had, the professions exercised by those who were the first to bear the surname Schwendt are found in every look back in the history of this lineage. The history, the heraldry, the coats of arms and the nobility of the surname Schwendt are found scattered in documents disseminated in various regions and historical periods, so it is necessary to reconstruct a complex puzzle to approach the facts from a realistic perspective".