Alexei Nikolaevich Charusin

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Alexei Nikolaevich Charusin

Alexei Nikolayevich Charusin ( Russian Алексей Николаевич Харузин * February 29 . Jul / 12. March  1864 greg. In Tallinn , † 8. May 1932 in Moscow ) was a Russian ethnographer , anthropologist and state officials.

Life

Charusin came from a wealthy merchant family . He attended the Revaler School (1873-1883) and then studied at the physico - mathematical faculty of Moscow University (MGU) with completion in 1889. After postgraduate doctorate him the Imperial University of Dorpat to candidates of Zoology .

On behalf of the Imperial Society of Friends of Natural History , he traveled to Transcaucasia (1885), the Crimea (1886, 1889), the Aegean Sea (1886), the Kyrgyz steppe with the Kurgan (1887, 1888) and the Caucasus (1891 ), which he described in detail with his ethnographic and anthropological observations. 1889-1891 he edited the journal Dnewnik of the anthropological department as secretary of the Imperial Society of Natural History Friends .

In 1891 Charusin entered the civil service as an official for special tasks with the governor of Estonia . He was then Secretary of the Farmers Commission, Secretary of the Government Committee for Statistics, and Government Secretary for Farmers Affairs. He received a gold medal from the Academy of Sciences for his book on rural property in Estonia . He edited the Estonian Government Gazette.

In 1895 Charusin moved to the State Chancellery of the State Council . In 1899 he visited Bosnia and Herzegovina on behalf of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society . In 1901 he collected ethnographic material in Slovenia .

In 1902 Charusin became managing director of the Vilna Governor General's office. In 1904 he became governor of Bessarabia with the appointment of chamberlain . In 1908 he became director of the department for spiritual affairs of foreign denominations of the interior ministry with the rank of court master . In 1909 he was appointed to the Real Council of State (4th class ). In 1911 he became Vice Minister of the Interior. In 1913 he became a senator and court master (3rd class).

Charusin was an honorary peace judge of Ujesd Akkerman and an honorary citizen of Kishinew , Bender , Belz , Kilija and Reni . In 1908, the central Andreevskaya Street in Bender was renamed Charusinskaya Street (until 1918).

After the October Revolution he organized with others the Agricultural Experiment Station Schatilowo at Chomutowo and worked there. From 1924 he worked in the Moscow Agricultural Polytechnic as an author and teacher in the horticultural department .

In 1927, Charusin was arrested by the GPU and after some time released without charge. He now worked as a consultant for the Moscow magazine Selchogise . In 1931 he and his youngest son Vsevolod were arrested a second time for anti-Soviet agitation. Charusin's wife proved with the documents presented that Charusin prevented pogroms against the Jews during his time as governor through strict measures . His son testified that Charusin had only ever worked as a scientist. In April, Charusin was sentenced to three years in banishment under Article 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code . In May 1932 he died of heart failure in the hospital at Butyrka prison.

Charusin was the Rear Admiral daughter Baroness Natalya Vasilyevna by the Howen married and had three sons. Mstislav (1893-1920), one of the leaders in the White Movement , Oleg (1899-1928) and Vsevolod (1907-1937), journalist . As a staunch counter-revolutionary, Vsevolod Charusin was sentenced to 10 years in a camp in 1935 and shot in 1937.

Charusin's brothers Michail and Nikolai and his sister Wera were also ethnographers.

Honors, prizes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Харузин (Алексей Николаевич) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape XXXVII , 1903, pp. 91 ( Wikisource [accessed October 10, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b М.М.КЕРИМОВА, О.Б.НАУМОВА: Алексей Николаевич Харузин - этнограф и антрополог (accessed October 10, 2018).
  3. ↑ Харузин А.Н .: Степные очерки . Moscow 1888 ( rsl.ru [accessed October 10, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Харузин А.Н .: Киргизы Букеевской Орды . Moscow 1889 ( rsl.ru [accessed October 10, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Харузин А.Н .: Курганы Букеевской степи . 1890.
  6. ↑ Харузин А.Н .: Древние могилы Гурзуфа и Гугу (на Южном Берегу Крыма) . 1890.
  7. ↑ Харузин А.Н .: Тайны Южного берега Крыма . 1891.
  8. ↑ Харузин А.Н .: Крестьянское землевладение в Эстляндской губернии . Reval 1895.
  9. ↑ Харузин А.Н .: Босния-Герцеговина. Очерки оккупационной провинции Австро-Венгрии . 1901.
  10. ↑ Чуркина И. В .: Русские и словенцы. Научные связи конца XVIII в. 1914 г . Nauka , Moscow 1986 ( inslav.ru [accessed October 12, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Мурзанов Н. А .: Словарь русских сенаторов, 1711–1917 гг . St. Petersburg 2011, p. 459 .
personal data
SURNAME Charusin, Alexei Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Харузин, Алексей Николаевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ethnologist, anthropologist and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1932
Place of death Moscow