Portrait of the Katerynoslav provincial leader of the nobility Alekseev Georgiy Petrovych (1834-1914). artist P.T. Okulov. 1912, canvas, oil.
H.P. Alekseev was born in the ancestral estate of Kotivka, Novomoskovsk district, Katerynoslav province. In 1856, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Kharkiv University. Since 1874, the nobility of the Ekaterinoslav region elected him as their leader, and in 1875 he became the speaker of the Ekaterinoslav City Duma. While in this position, he presides over provincial zemstvo assemblies. On official matters, Alekseev is often in St. Petersburg and Moscow, at receptions of the emperor and at the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was Georgy Petrovich who led the delegation from the province with a request to the emperor to build a railway with a bridge across the Dnipro River in Katerynoslav. In 1887, Alekseev was awarded the title of honorary citizen of Katerynoslav. Georgy Petrovich has donated funds for the development of the city many times: for a library, an orphanage, a county school, a male classical gymnasium, helping them not only with words and wishes, but also with constant generous donations. For his excellent service and public activity H.P. Alekseev was awarded almost all Russian orders. During the long years of his life, Alekseev collected a huge amount of archival, book, numismatic and physical material, which became a kind of private museum and library, part of which is kept in the museum to this day – a carriage of the 18th century, weapons, glass, porcelain, books, paintings.
