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Pyotr Nikolayevich Dubovitsky, 1804.  Painter V. L. Borovikovsky
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Pyotr N. Dubovitsky. 21. 11. 1753-4. 11. 1825.
Parents: Nikolay I. Dubovitsky and Marfa Ye. nee Shubin.
His career stemed from 1768 when he began serving as a seargeant of 2nd Grenadier regiment in Ryazan. From 1769 untill 1770 he had been in the army laying siege to a Fortress of Bendery. In 1771 he has participated in subjugation of Crimea as an aide-de-camp, seizing Perekopskaya and Kafirskaya fortresses. In 1773-1774 he has taken part in govenmental armed operation vs. Yemelyan Pugachyov, bellicose peasant and bandit, which organized a rebellion of sorts. On March 22, 1774 P. N. Dubovitsky was a witness of Pugachyov's failure and arrest 2 days after. P. N. Dubovitsky was also a member of unit that supervised a cage the bandit was jailed into so that secure him to Moscow.
In 1775 P. N. Dubovitsky had married N. I. Medvedsky, offspring of gentry from county of Kasimov, Ryazan Region.
Since February 28, 1775 P. N. Dubovitsky had been working as senior provisor (captain by rank) of Provision Warehouses. In 1778 he was a Head of the Provision of Alexandrovskaya Fortress on the river of Dnestr.
On April 29, 1781 P. N. Dubovitsky became oberproviantmeister and was serving in Moscow and Crimea.
Proviantmeister is like a logistics manager by now.
He had resigned on November 7, 1784, as a Court Counsellor (civil rank equal to lieutenant-colonel).
In 1785 he purchased a village of Stenkino, 20 miles from Ryazan. His capital had been growing substantially and reached a sum of several hundreds of thousands roubles and real estate and lands were comparable to appanage princedom. In various regions of Russia P. N. Dubovitsky has owned 15 villages and 1995 serfs.
From January 1, 1791 to January 1, 1754 he had been serving as a marshal of Skopin County's nobility.
Dubovitskys' have experienced serious problems by virtue of their son's, A. P. Dubovitsky's, exiles and suppressions from government.
P. N. Dubovitsky had died en route to his Moscow house. He is burried in Moscow, at Donskoy monastery cemetery. 

Bibliography: Yevgeny N. Krupin, Noble family of Dubovitskys. Ryazan: Novoye Vremya Publishing House, 1996.

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