Filipp Petrovich Stepanov

Filipp Petrovich Stepanov

Filipp Petrowitsch Stepanow (born July 3, 1857 in Kaluga Governorate , Russian Empire , † January 7, 1933 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ) was Chamberlain of the Imperial Court and Attorney of the Moscow Holy Synod .

Life

Stepanov was the son of the general and commanding officer of Tsarskoye Selo Pyotr Alexandrovich Stepanov , grandson of the first governor of the Yeniseisk governorate , governor of the Saratov governorate , local historian and writer Alexander Petrovich Stepanov (1781–1837), nephew of the cartoonist Nikolaiovich77 (1807–1837) , His older brother Mikhail Petrovich Stepanov (1853-1917) took part in the Russo-Ottoman War (1877-1878) , became a cavalry general and in 1882 one of the founders and first secretary of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society .

Filipp Stepanow began his officer training in 1876 as a chamber page in the St. Petersburg Page Corps . As a cornet he took part in the Russo-Ottoman War (1877–1878) , for which he received the Order of St. Anna, 4th grade. In 1880 he entered the Nikolaevsk Engineering Academy. He was then transferred to Warsaw to build a fort on the left bank of the Vistula . In 1890 he left military service and entered the Ministry of Transport as assistant to the head of the Polish Railroad Department in Rovno . In 1891 he became department head for the Samara - Zlatoust railway area , initially in Minjar , from 1892 in Ufa and in 1893 for the Moscow - Kiev area in Mtsensk and then in Oryol .

In 1895 Stepanov received the Protocols of the Elders of Zion from the aristocratic marshal Alexei Nikolajewitsch Sukhotin (later Vice-Governor of Old Poland) in Tschern near Tula , for which there is no evidence. The editions ascribed to him have not yet been found. In 1897 he handed over the minutes to Grand Duchess Jelisaveta Fedorovna , sister-in-law of Tsar Nicholas II .

In 1901 Stepanov participated in the reform of the church singing college . 1906–1917 he was the public prosecutor of the Moscow Holy Synod for the Synodal College and the Synodal Choir. In 1907 he became the church overseer of the community schools. In 1908 he took part in the consecration of a new church on the Solovetsky Islands. He became a board member of the Brotherhood of the Resurrection of Christ, founded in 1909 . In 1910, on the highest orders, he joined the Working Committee for the Renovation and Restoration of Moscow 's Assumption Cathedral . In 1910, on the personal orders of Tsar Nicholas II, the Synodal Commission for Church Chanting was founded under Stepanov's chairmanship. In 1911 he made a guest tour in Europe with the lecturer at the Synodal University Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Kastalski . In 1914 he took part in the first deliberation on the 25 worshipers of the name of God on which the synodal court had to rule.

The February Revolution of 1917 welcomed Stepanov. After the October Revolution , however, he left St. Petersburg and went to Sochi to Ivan Alexandrowitsch Schmelew, who lived there since 1901 and gave music lessons. Together they performed a children's opera. In 1920 Stepanov emigrated to Yugoslavia .

Stepanow was married to Nadezhda Ivanovna Ridel and had four children: Wera (1885-1954), Nikolai (1886-1981), Marina (1887-1931 as a prisoner in Novosibirsk Oblast ) and Pyotr (1891-?). Stepanov's great grandson, Prince Vladimir Kirillowitsch Golitsyn (* 1942) is the star of the Orthodox Cathedral in New York .

Honors

• Order of St. Anna 4th class (1878)
• Order of Saint Stanislaus 3rd class
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd Class (1911)
• Order of St. Anna 3rd class

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Hagemeister: In search of evidence on the origin of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (Russian, accessed on December 21, 2015).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Stepanow Nikolai Filippowitsch (Russian, accessed December 21, 2015).
3. ^ Leslie Fry: How the Protocols came to Russia . In: Waters flowing eastward . Editions RISS 1931.
4. ↑ Protocols (Russian, accessed December 21, 2015).
5. ^ ND Talberg: History of the Russian Church 1801-1908 (Russian).
6. ↑ A Forgotten Island (Russian, accessed December 21, 2015).
7. ↑ Wostorgow Ivan Ivanovich (Russian retrieved on 21 December 2015).
8. ↑ On the history of the photographic recordings of the Moscow Uspensky and Blagoveschensky Cathedrals 1882-1918 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 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. (Russian, accessed December 21, 2015). 
9. ^ Chronicle of the Athos Affair (Russian, accessed December 21, 2015).
10. ^ Center for Genealogical Research (Russian, accessed December 21, 2015).
11. ↑ The Church of Christ rises before my eyes . (Russian, accessed December 21, 2015).