The 21-year-old second lieutenant of the Life Guards artillery participated in the Battle of Borodino. According to one version, he died in battle near the village of Tarutino in the Kaluga region on October 18. The noble family of Bezobrazovs has been known since the mid-15th century. Their ancestor, Christofor Bezobrazov, arrived in Russia from Prussia during the reign of Grand Duke Vasily I, and it was said of him: "Honest in soul, terrifying in face...". One branch of this family owned an estate in the village of Kokino since the early 17th century, which was then part of the Oryol province. The only son in the family, little Sasha, spent his childhood in the ancestral estate. His father, Alexander Sergeevich Bezobrazov, served in the Semenov Life Guards regiment and, as local historians suggest, died in the Russo-Turkish campaign of 1791. As a result, his wife Varvara Nikolaevna, born Tyutcheva and aunt of the famous poet, raised their son and daughter Pelageya alone.

Alexander entered service in 1808 when he was 17 years old. From May 1812, he served in St. Petersburg with the training company. It was there that Kutuzov likely noticed his bravery and resourcefulness and appointed him his constant orderly on August 23, 1812. Alexander delivered mail and orders from the field marshal, often under fire from the French.

For his bravery in the Battle of Borodino, Lieutenant Bezobrazov was awarded the Order of Saint Anna of the 4th degree. His award documents note: "Delivered orders from the commander-in-chief of the armies, performing these and other tasks with courage and promptness."

Alexander's comrade, Nikolai Durnovo, wrote in his diary about the Tarutino battle: "Alexander went missing. It is believed that he was killed in the attack that our Cossacks launched against the French cuirassiers. This will drive his poor mother to despair: he was her only son... The rumors of the death of Alexander Bezobrazov, the artillery officer, unfortunately, were confirmed. He was killed in the battle of the Cossacks with the first cuirassier regiment. His body was found on the battlefield completely naked..."

When Varvara Nikolaevna learned of her son's death, she appealed to Alexander I with a request to allow the transfer of Alexander's remains to the family estate in Kokino. In 1818, in memory of her deceased husband and son, she built the Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya church in the village of Tvorishino (now the Zhiryatinsky district), which still exists today.

The estate in Kokino, owned by the Bezobrazovs, soon fell into ruin. Due to debts, it was sold in 1833 to landowner Kholaev. After the revolution, the estate was destroyed. The Church of the Holy Virgin, where the Bezobrazov landowners, including Varvara Nikolaevna, her husband, and son, were buried in the family crypt, was dismantled brick by brick and a club for the agricultural technical school was built from them.

What happened to the remains of the Bezobrazovs could not be established. The crypt was opened and looted, and most likely the remains were discarded. The location where the bones of the hero of the 1812 war, Kutuzov's orderly Alexander Bezobrazov, now rest remains unknown.