Pavel Afanassjewitsch Buryschkin

Pawel Afanassjevitch Buryschkin ( Russian Павел Афанасьевич Бурышкин ; born February 9 ^{. Jul} / 21st February  1887 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 27. July 1955 in Issy-les-Moulineaux ) was a Russian businessman and politician .

Life

Buryschkin came from a merchant family from the Smolensk governorate . He attended the Moscow Katkow - Lycèe with a degree in 1905 and then studied law at the Moscow University with a degree in 1909. This was followed by studies at the Moscow Trade Institute until 1912. In 1916 he entered the Moscow Archaeological Institute .

After his father's death in 1912, Buryschkin became the director of the family-run company Manufakturwarenhandel AW Buryschkin . In addition, he was a partner in several textile factories whose products his company marketed, and in the ID Sytin publishing house . He was a member of the Council of the Russian Insurance Union, the Audit Commission of Northern Insurance and the Committee of the Commercial Credit Company. In 1912 he became a member of the Council of Meetings of Industrial and Commercial Representatives. He was elected to the Moscow Stock Exchange Company (1912–1917) and the Moscow Merchant Company (1913–1917). He then became a senior man in the Moscow Stock Exchange Committee (1915-1917) and also in the stock exchange committee of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair (1913-1917). In 1915 he founded the company of manufactory wholesalers and became its managing director.

Buryshkin was a member of the cadets . In the early 1910s he switched to the Progressists , rose to their central committee and was co-editor of the magazine Der Morgen Russlands . In 1912 he became a city councilor of the Moscow Duma , in 1914 secretary of the progressive committee and chairman of the city Duma pension committee.

During the First World War , Buryschkin headed the control department at the main committee of the All-Russian Union of Cities (1914-1917). 1915–1917 he was a member of the Central and Moscow Military-Industrial Committee. A hospital was set up in his Moscow house .

After the February Revolution of 1917 , Moscow city head was first NI Astrov , whose collaborator was Buryschkin. In March, Buryshkin organized the All-Russian Trade and Industry Union with others. After the dismissal of the Minister for Trade and Industry Al Konovalov of the Provisional Government, Prince Lvov offered the post to Buryschkin in May , but Buryschkin refused it out of solidarity with Konovalov. In July 1917 the Social Revolutionary W. W. Rudnew became head of the Moscow city and Buryshkin was one of his four deputies. In August, Buryshkin took part in a meeting with General Kornilov and in September in talks with Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky to form a coalition government. In October he led the trade and industry group in the pre-parliament of the Russian Republic.

After the October Revolution , Buryschkin and others organized a committee in the city Duma to unite the anti-Bolshevik forces. In the summer of 1918 he left Moscow and went to southern Russia. In the autumn of 1918 he participated in the Right Center in Moscow and then in the National Center . During the civil war he went to Yalta and Odessa in March 1919 . He then turned to the National Center in Siberia and, in the autumn of 1919, went to Omsk . In November 1919 he became finance minister of the Omsk government led by VN Pepeljajew as the successor to LW Hoyer . As a result of Kolchak's defeat and the transfer of power to Denikin and Semyonov , the Omsk government collapsed. On February 7, 1920, Pepelyayev and Kolchak were shot.

Buryshkin fled and traveled to France via China , Japan and the USA to settle in Paris . He joined some emigre organizations and was a professor at the Russian Trade Institute in Paris from 1925 to 1934. He was a member of several emigrant Masonic lodges .

Buryshkin found his grave in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois .

Buryschkin's son Vladimir (1913–1968) organized the Russian basketball club in Paris and coached the Romanian national team before the Second World War . He fought in the Resistance during the German occupation , became a Colonel in the British Army as Val Williams , saved many Allied pilots and received French , British and US awards.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pavel Afanas'evich Buryshkin (accessed September 29, 2016).
2. ^ Robert William Thurston: Liberal City, Conservative State: Moscow and Russia's Urban Crisis, 1906-1914 . Oxford University Press, 1987, pp. 68 .
3. ↑ Robert Paul Browder, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky: The Russian Provisional Government, 1917: Documents, Volume I . Stanford University Press, 1961, pp. 1662 .
4. ↑ А. И. Серков: Русское масонство. 1731-2000 гг. Энциклопедический словарь . РОССПЭН, Moscow 2001, ISBN 5-8243-0240-5 .
5. ↑ Vladimir Buryshkin (accessed September 29, 2016).