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Adrian Moiseevich Gribovsky (August 26, 1767, Lubny – January 28, 1834) was a confidant of Platon Zubov, Cabinet Secretary of Catherine II in the last year of her reign, known mainly as the author of notes about this time. By rank – lieutenant colonel, Court councillor. The owner of the Shchurovo Estate on the Oka.
In 1784, with the rank of provincial secretary, he was appointed to the Commission of the New Code. Then Gribovsky took up translations, his literary works were known to Gavriil Derzhavin, and in December 1784 the poet took the young writer to serve in Petrozavodsk, as Secretary of the Olonets Order of Public Charity, where he was then governor. On January 10, 1785, the Senate confirmed him in this position. From July 19 to September 13, 1785, with Derzhavin, he traveled around the Olonets Governorate, visiting the Kivach Falls Waterfall, Kem, Kargopol and other villages of the region; together with another secretary, Nikolai Emin, kept a "day note". The clever Gribovsky soon earned the full confidence of his boss, which he cruelly deceived, acting as treasurer of the Order of Public Charity, losing state money in cards. Derzhavin hushed up the matter by compensating for the waste, but Gribovsky's reputation was seriously damaged. Gribovsky resigned from the service, having, however, received the rank of collegiate secretary.
During the Russian–Turkish War of 1787–1791, Gribovsky was at the field office. In the winter of 1789, Gribovsky accompanied Potemkin to Saint Petersburg. As a person who owned a literary pen, he was entrusted with compiling journals of military operations, according to which Potemkin's reports were compiled to Catherine, and at the Iasi Congress – the duties of a conference secretary. Gribovsky's letter to Derzhavin about Potemkin's death (October 5, 1791) was apparently one of the first news of this event that reached Saint Petersburg.
The unexpected death of Potemkin and closeness to him not only did not ruin Gribovsky, but helped him get into the service of the former rival and enemy of the Tauride Prince – Platon Zubov with a letter of recommendation from Alexander Bezborodko, whose favor the seeking Gribovsky quickly managed to earn. On January 14, 1792, Gribovsky arrived in Saint Petersburg and four days later, renamed from court advisers to lieutenant colonels of the Izyum Light Horse Regiment, he was appointed governor of Zubov's office and soon became his right hand. In the same year, Gribovsky received land allotments on the left bank of the Tiligul estuary (12,000 acres), where the village of Tashino arose, and on the left bank of the Baraboy River at its confluence with the Black Sea (7,500 acres), it was called the village of Gribovka.
Gribovsky often abused his position. The large funds that Gribovsky now had allowed him to live widely, and in Saint Petersburg they were surprised at his luxury and extravagance. Cheerful and sociable, Gribovsky loved music, had his own orchestra and played the Stradivarius violin himself.
Having paid the penalties, Gribovsky was released at the beginning of 1799, but the next he was sent to Shlisselburg, accused of selling state lands in Novorossia. On February 14, 1801, he was released from prison due to the efforts of his wife, but until the death of Paul I he was under police supervision.
After his release, he settled in his estate in the Podolsk Province, Vishnevchik, from where he soon moved to live in Moscow. Here, with his former luxurious life, Gribovsky upset his condition and in 1814, settled in the village of Shchurov, which had survived from him, on the Oka River, opposite of Kolomna. An attempt to improve matters by farming ended in failure, and in 1817, Gribovsky declared himself insolvent. Almost until the end of his life, he busied himself with government jobs in order to justify himself from the accusation of malicious bankruptcy; the process ended in his favor, but consumed the remainder of his fortune.
He died on January 28, 1834, and was buried in the Kolomna Golutvin Monastery. Anatoly Kuzovkin. 250 Years Since the Birth of Adrian Gribovsky He did not leave a good memory among his contemporaries: being only 19 years old, he squandered money; saved by Derzhavin, he repaid him with ingratitude; indebted to Zubov for everything, under Paul he made an attempt to harm him for selfish reasons. In the last years of his life (1830–1834), Gribovsky worked on "Notes", covering the period from 1783 to 1802 and conveying many features of court life and characteristics of the most important figures in the reign of Catherine II.
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