Klavdiy Fyodorovich Arsenyev

Who is Klavdiy Fyodorovich Arsenyev?

Klavdiy (Claudius,) born on March 11 (23), 1848, from a relationship with a serf peasant, a domestic servant of Major General N.I. Lodygin, Agrafena Filippovna (maiden name unknown) from the village of Alekseykovo, Tver province.

Due to the absence of an official father, Klavdiy was given the surname Arsenyev, after his godfather Arseny "Timofeyev's son", who did not have a surname.

In 1855, Agrafena Filippovna and her son received a emancipation license from Major General Lodygin and after a while officially registered their marriage with F. I. Goppmayer, taking his last name.

Due to the carelessness of his blood father, who died in 1866, Claudius was never adopted and until the end of his life bore the surname Arsenyev.

In 1869, at the request of Agrafena Filippovna, her son Klavdiy Fyodorovich Arsenyev was assigned to the Tver philistine class. Later, A. F. Goppmeier and her son moved to St. Petersburg.

Having matured and passed the exams for the title of home teacher, on January 14 (26), 1870, Klavdiy Arsenyev married Rufina Egorovna Kashlacheva, the daughter of a former serf in the Kostroma province.

In the same year, the family's first child, Anatoly, was born. The wife was three years older than her husband, and their marriage is considered to be a happy one. Most of his life, Klavdiy Fyodorovich worked as an employee on the Nikolaev railway.

The Arsenyevs had a large family: four sons and five daughters, and a adopted daughter, Capitalina Koki.