Aleksei Sorokin

This article deals with the politician Aleksei Sorokin; for the fleet admiral of a similar name, see Alexei Iwanowitsch Sorokin .

Aleksei Sorokin ( Russian Алексей Сорокин ; born March 5 ^{. Jul} / 17th March  1888 ^greg. In Tallinn ; † 1. April 1933 ) was an Estonian lawyer and politician . He was one of the leading representatives of the Russian minority in Estonia in the interwar period .

Life

Aleksei Sorokin was born into a Russian-speaking family in the Estonian capital Tallinn. There he attended the grammar school of Emperor Nikolai I (today Gustav Adolf grammar school ).

In 1912 he graduated from the University of Saint Petersburg with a law degree . From 1912 to 1914 he worked at the Tallinn District Court. From 1914 he worked as a lawyer and criminal defense attorney as well as legal advisor to authorities in Tallinn.

With the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Estonia in 1918, he went into politics. At the end of 1918, he and like-minded people founded the "Provisional Russian Council of Estonia" ( Eesti Ajutine Vene Nõukogu ) to represent the Russians living in Estonia . In the Provisional Government of Prime Minister Konstantin Päts , he represented the Russian minority as minister from February 28, 1919 to May 9, 1919. Politically, he was a member of the Assembly of Russian Citizens ( Vene Kodanikkude Kogu , Собрание русских граждан).

In the election to the Constituent Assembly ( Asutav Kogu ) of the Republic of Estonia, which took place in April 1919, Sorokin was elected as the only member of the Russian minority in the constituent assembly. There he took part in the drafting of the Estonian constitution . However, Sorokin - along with the three members of the Baltic Germans - was not one of the signatories of the Estonian declaration of independence of May 19, 1919; he abstained.

In the parliamentary elections , which took place at the end of November 1920, Sorokin was the only Russian to enter parliament ( Riigikogu ). He was a candidate for the center-right Russian National Association in Estonia, founded in 1920 ( Vene Rahvuslik Liit Eestis , Русский национальный союз в Эстонии). In 1923 Sorokin left the legislature and worked again as a lawyer. Alongside Nikolai Kurtšinski and Pyotr Baranin, he remained a leading member of the Russian minority in Estonia during the interwar period. However, even he did not succeed in bringing together the minority, fragmented by great social differences, in one party or association, as was the case with the Baltic Germans , for example .

In 1931 Sorokin became vice-chairman of the Russian National Association in Estonia. In 1933, shortly before his untimely death, he was elected chairman. In the parliamentary elections in 1932 , Sorokin was re-elected as a member of the Russian minority in parliament with an alliance of various Russian groups. He also took over the chairmanship of the group. At that time, the amalgamation of various Russian groups won eight mandates.

Aleksei Sorokin died in Tallinn in April 1933 after a long heart condition.

literature

• Obituary ( Postimees , April 2, 1933, p. 1)

Web links

• " Алексей Сорокин, министр по русским делам. In: Pealinn , April 20, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 487
2. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ http://www.riigikogu.ee/public/Riigikogu/Dokumendid/I_Riigikogu_liikmed.pdf
4. ↑ Sulev Vahtre (ed.): Eesti Ajalugu VI. Tartu 2005, p. 68