- Alessandro Shatilov (1746-1822) married a Lossev when she was 17 and he was 27 years older than she. See following a brief description of the Lossev family and of their coat of arms:
- She brought to her husband a dowry of the estate of Aleecxskoye in the government of Voronezh, district of Repin. This large villa was erected on the designs and plans of the Italian architect Rastrelli and was very beautiful and rich (1764). The church attached to it, the houses inside the Villa, the stables, etc. were all of stone and in the same style. (In Russia during that period the villas in the countryside were made of wood.)
- They had one son: Nicola.
- Nicola (1790-1804) married Varvara Alyabiev (1796-1860) a lady of great beauty and intelligence. He was very rich and traveled much, always using his own horses and disdaining those of the place. His trips also always stretched on because he generally traveled over half of Italy where Nicola Shatilov bought canvases, objets d’arte, etc. that he brought to Alexeevskoe, enriching her.
Nicola was passionate in play and during forced stops for resting the horses, he played willingly with the travelers that he met. One time however it happened that one of his playmates cheated using marked cards and, indignant, he struck the cheater on the head with a heavy candlestick, killing him.
His companion at that moment was his brother-in-law Alyabiev, brother of his wife. They were arrested and were sentenced by a judge to exile in Siberia and to the confiscation of their goods. His faithful wife Varvara followed her husband into exile and after only 7 years obtained from the Tsar grace for her husband and for her brother and the restitution of half of their possessed goods. Only Shatilov was able to avail himself of this grace, and not Alyabiev who died in exile before being notified of having obtained grace.
Nicola Shatilov and Varvara Alyabiev had 5 children. The second born, Sophie, married Baron Alesandro Stael Holstein, father of that Nicola Stael Holstein who married in his time Sophie Andrault de Langeron.
We have already written that Sophie Shatilov was a beautiful and intelligent lady and that the Russian poet Lermontov admired her very much and wrote poems and epigrams about her. So it happened that the mother of Nicola Stael Holstein and the mother of Sophie Andrault de Langeron, married, and from whom we descend, were contemporarily and respectively the sweet inspirers of the poet Lermontov, in the first case, and of the poet Pushkin, in the second case.
The Ruggeri-Laderchi Family 