Alexander Wassiljewitsch Bartschenko

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Alexander Wassiljewitsch Bartschenko (1937)

Alexander Wassiljewitsch Bartschenko ( Russian Александр Васильевич Барченко ; * 1881 in Jelez , † April 25, 1938 in Moscow ) was a Russian occultist and writer .

Life

Bartschenko, son of a notary , showed an inclination towards mysticism and everything mysterious from an early age . He attended high school in St. Petersburg with graduation in 1898 and then attended lectures first at the medical faculty of Kazan University and then at the medical faculty of Dorpat University . Due to insufficient financial resources, he was unable to complete his studies.

1905-1909 he traveled in search of employment as a tourist, worker and sailor in Russia and abroad, where he also came to India . During this time he devoted himself to esotericism . 1909-1911 he worked as a palm reader and advisor in Borowitschi in the Novgorod governorate with the permission of the local police . From 1911, Bartschenko began writing popular science articles and reports for various magazines under the pseudonyms A. Narwski and A. Jelezki. In 1913 he published the novel Doktor Tschorny (Doctor Schwarz) and in 1914 the novel Is Mraka (Out of Darkness, reprinted in 1991) as well as an anthology with stories and own illustrations .

After the October Revolution , Bartschenko was employed by the Petrograd Institute for Experimental Medicine founded and directed by Vladimir Mikhailovich Bechterew . The Chekists were interested in Bartschenko's investigations , whereupon Bartschenko began to work in the special department of the United State Political Administration of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR (OGPU) headed by Gleb Ivanovich Boki . In 1922, Bartschenko led an expedition on the Kola Peninsula to the Lowosero and Seidosero Rajons , where he allegedly found handcrafted monuments. The aim of the expedition, in addition to exploring the economic situation of the Sami, was to examine the phenomena reported there, similar to strong hypnosis . After completing his work at the Institute for Experimental Medicine, Bartschenko was hired as a scientific advisor in October 1923 in the Glawnauka (head office of the science, art and museum authorities).

In 1923 Bartschenko founded the Jedinoje Trudowoje Bratstwo (Unified Workers' Brotherhood ), which was joined by PD Uspenskis Sofja Grigoryevna Uspenskaja and Gleb Ivanovich Boki. Dmitri Lvowitsch Bykow presented this part of Bartschenko's biography in his novel about the sorcerer's apprentice Ostromow (2011). In 1925 he met Menachem Mendel Schneerson , with whom he then corresponded on religious and mystical matters. Since his studies in Dorpat and his acquaintance with the works of Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves , Bartschenko was interested in Shambhala as the origin of ancient culture and science in the mountains of Tibet . During his time in the special department of the OGPU he had prepared an expedition to search for Shamghala, but it was never realized. After all, Georgi Wassiljewitsch Tschitscherin and Bartschenko supported Nicholas Roerich's Tibet expedition , which took place from 1927 to 1928. The connection between Roerich and the OGPU is controversial.

Bartschenko was arrested on May 21, 1937. On April 25, 1938, the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death by shooting and executing the sentence in Lefortovo Prison under Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR for establishing the Masonic counter-revolutionary Jedinoje Trudowoje Bratstvo and spying for the UK . On November 3, 1956, a few months after Khrushchev's secret speech , Bartschenko was rehabilitated by the same judicial authority.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Librussek: Александр Васильевич Барченко (accessed October 14, 2018).
  3. ^ Shishkin OA: The Occultist Aleksandr Barchenko and the Soviet Secret Police . In: The new age of Russia: Occult and esoteric dimensions . Verlag Otto Sagner , Munich, Berlin 2012, p. 81-100 .
  4. ↑ a b Андреев А.И .: Время Шамбалы . Издательский Дом «Нева», St. Petersburg 2004, p. 29 .
  5. ↑ Алим Войцеховский: Тайны Атлантиды . Вече, 2000, ISBN 5-7838-0509-2 , p. 411-419 .
  6. ↑ a b c Брачев В. С .: Тайные общества в СССР . Стомма, St. Petersburg 2006, p. 161, 164, 184 .
  7. ^ Rapoport, Chaim: The Afterlife of Scholarship . 2011, ISBN 978-0-615-53897-6 , pp. 76 (English).
  8. ↑ Росов В. А .: Русско-американские экспедиции Н. К. Рериха в Центральную Азию (1920-е и 1930-е годы) (Автореферат диссертации на соискание ученой степени доктора исторических наук ) .
  9. ↑ Стеценко А. В .: Клевещите, клевещите, что-нибудь да останется . In: Сборник " Защитим имя и наследие Рерихов ", Том 1 . МЦР, 2001.
personal data
SURNAME Bartschenko, Alexander Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Барченко, Александр Васильевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian occultist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Jelez
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1938
Place of death Moscow