Dmitry Prokofievich Troshchinsky (Russian: Дмитрий Прокофьевич Трощинский; Ukrainian: Дмитро Прокопович Трощинський; October 26, 1749 – February 26, 1829) was a Russian Imperial statesman, senior Cabinet Secretary (1793–98), Prosecutor General (1814–17), Privy Councilor, senator, owner of the serf theater.

Troshchinsky accompanied emperor Paul I to Moscow for the coronation and was appointed senator and present in the council established at the educational society of noble maidens.

After the coup of 1801, he was reinstated in all posts and appointed by Emperor Alexander I a member of the Permanent State Council and head of the Postal Directorate of the empire, and when the ministries were established, he became the Minister of Allotments.

Troshchinsky held the post of Minister of Allotments from 1802 to 1806, then he retired and moved to live in the village of Kibintsy, Mirgorod Uyezd.

He died of "dropsy in the chest" on February 26, 1829, in Kibintsy, leaving a very significant condition: 6 thousand souls of serfs, a house in Petersburg and Kiev, movable property worth about 1 million rubles.

Troshchinsky was not married, but had secondary children – his son Dmitry (October 25, 1802 – ?, born in Saint Petersburg, the godson of Colonel Andrei Troshchinsky),[3] and daughter Nadezhda (she died of consumption in 1817), she was married to an officer, Prince Ivan Khilkov, who soon left, according to Gogol, he was "a big comedian and an old sinner".

According to a contemporary, Troshchinsky "loved her granddaughter dearly, meanwhile, she was completely convinced that she was his only heiress and eagerly expected what her fate would be decided.