Pavel Pavlovich von Derwiz (1870, 1943) was a hussar and staff captain who graduated from the Nikolaev Cavalry School. In 1893, he founded a horse breeding farm in Starozhilovo, designed by architect F.O. Shekhtel, and headed the Pronsk district nobility.
He was the youngest son of P.G. von Derwiz and lived with his family in Nice, France, until 1881. He received his primary education at home with the best teachers. After the death of his father and sister, he moved to Russia with his mother. He studied at the St. Petersburg gymnasium until the 6th grade, then transferred to the Nikolaev Cadet Corps, which prepared cavalrymen. In 1889, he entered the Nikolaev Cavalry School.
In 1890, he received the rank of cornet in the Life Guards Hussar Imperial Regiment, and in 1891, he was enrolled in the Officer Cavalry School, where he commanded a platoon. In 1892, he was transferred to the Life Guards Grodno Hussar Regiment, where he developed an interest in teaching and became fascinated with horses. In 1894, he received the rank of lieutenant. In 1902, he retired with the rank of captain.
After dividing the property with his brother Sergey, Pavel Pavlovich became the owner of estates in the Ryazan province, including Starozhilovo. He also owned shares in many companies and was a major shareholder of the Russian Trade and Industrial Bank.
Pavel Pavlovich was actively involved in charity work. In Pronsk, he opened a women's progymnasium and an agricultural school, as well as a hospital for peasants. He taught mathematics at the Pronsk gymnasium, for which he graduated externally from Moscow University.
He was musically gifted, played the piano well, and composed music. His works were performed by F.I. Shalyapin. In the theaters he built in Starozhilovo and Pronsk, operas such as "Eugene Onegin" and "Carmen" were staged.
By 1910, Pavel Pavlovich retained ownership of only the Starozhilovo estate and the progymnasium building. In 1916, with the permission of the tsar, he changed his surname to Lugovoy and continued to teach mathematics.
In 1918, he was sentenced to execution but managed to flee to Petrograd. In 1919, he was arrested but soon released thanks to the petition of former students. In 1920, he began lecturing on mathematics at the Ryazan Cavalry Courses, where among his listeners was the future Marshal Georgy Zhukov.
Later, he taught at a school but was dismissed in 1924. In 1928, he found a teaching position in the school of the settlement of Maksatikh, where he was buried alongside his wife Olga Nikolaevna Lugovaya.
The Starozhilovo horse breeding farm in the Ryazan region still exists today. It has about 300 horses, a horse sports school, and the factory building remains an architectural monument.
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