Hi Anna,
I want to thank you again for your message with link
http://www.doun.org/transcriptions/index.phpBesides more Russian seamen names, I can now make (try to make) a substantial part of the story.
So, as I see it now, there was Stepan Vasilievich Tolubeev,
sub-lieutenant of Russian Imperial Navy, born in 1741.
And he was married to Mavra Vasilievna and they had nine children.
One of them, Victor Tolubeef (not our hero) - do not have information
at that time, but sure will have.
The other, Irinarkh Tolubeev (died 1822)was a Commander (1811) of
Imperial Russian Navy who commanded Russian ships in Baltic and took
part as Captain of frigate Amphitrida in the siege of Danzig.
The third one, Nickolay Tolubeev, graduated in 1793 from the Naval
School.
The last one, is of interest to us.
The article from the site above tells the story about Great Yarmouth
Naval Hospital. There were a lot of Russian seamen at the hospital
recovering after unsuccessful joint British-Russian sortie against
French-Dutch troops at Texel and at least 218 of them died and were
buried at the Naval Hospital cemetery at Great Yarmouth.
But Nikolay Tulubeev was a lucky one. He survived. We can guess it
from the record about his marriage (under the name of Nicholas
Tulubier) with Georgiana Libbis on 27/12/1798 at St. Nicholas Church
at Great Yarmouth. Maybe it was a love at first sight, maybe as a gentleman
he had to marry Georgiana after their first daughter Feodosia was born
in 1797, prior their marriage but from now the families of Tulubeev
and Libbis goes together. Poor Feodosia first daughter of Nikolay and
Georgiana) died next year, in 1799 and from here the trace of
Nikolay Tolubeev is lost.
Now, we can only guess, that after healing his body, soul and heart in
Great Yarmouth, Nikolay Tolubeef returns home to Russia with his wife
Georgian.
At this point story interrupts till 1816, when Victor Tolubeef arrives on
board the Russian frigate Mercury to England to become a student of Royal
Naval College (ex-Royal Navy Academy) at Portsmouth (he becomes the
FIRST EVER FOREIGNER to enroll to this Academy).
By this time, he seems to be an orphan, and if the above is correct,
the graves of his father Nikolay Tolubeef and maybe his mother
(Nikolay's wife) Georgiana Libbis should be traced in Russia.
There is a hint, the place in Northen Russia, called Gorshevo, where
the ancestor of Tolubeev's was buried. I think, that I will make myself a birthday
present, and by the end of this year will go there, to search the place myself.
But again, the unsolved question is the location of Victor Tolubeef's
grave in England (London?)
Regards
Mike
