Sergei Andreevich Kotlyarevsky

Sergei Kotlyarevsky

Sergei Andreyevich Kotljarewski ( Russian Сергей Андреевич Котляревский 'scientific. Transliteration Sergei Andreevič Kotljarevskij ; born July 23 ^{. Jul} / 4. August  1873 ^greg. In Moscow Gubernia ; † 15. April 1939 ) was a Russian historian , author , lawyer and politician .

Life

Kotljarewski came from a family of civil servants and studied at the University of Moscow in the Historical - Philological Faculty with completion in 1894. Then he stayed at the university to the Department of General History habilitieren to. In 1898 he married Yekaterina Nikolayevna Orlowa , granddaughter of the Decembrist Mikhail Fyodorowitsch Orlow and great-granddaughter of General Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Rajewski .

In 1899 Kotlyarevsky began teaching as a private lecturer . In 1901 he received his master's degree in general history with the work The Franciscan Order and the Roman Curia in the 13th and 14th centuries and a doctorate in 1904 with the font Félicité de Lamennais and modern Catholicism . To this end, he received his master's degree in 1907 from the law faculty with the dissertation constitutional government, attempt at a political- morphological overview and in 1909 with the work The rule of law and foreign policy as a doctor of constitutional law.

Since the end of the 1890s, Kotlyarevsky combined his scientific work with social activities. He participated in the work of the association The Conversation, founded in Moscow in 1899, as well as in a number of philosophical and literary associations. One of these associations was the Religious History Association founded by Prince Sergei Nikolajewitsch Trubezkoi , of which he became chairman. In 1904 he worked with the Argonauts Andrei Belys , from which his habilitation thesis Félicité de Lamennais and modern Catholicism resulted.

From the end of 1903 Kotlyarevsky actively participated in the activities of political groups that were in opposition to the Russian autocracy . He worked in the Union of Zemstvo - Constitutionalists and the Liberation Union . In 1905 he took part in the Zemstvo meetings and founded with others the Constitutional Democratic Party , in whose central committee he joined. After the revolution of 1905 he was elected to the first State Duma in 1906 as one of the deputies of the Saratov Governorate . After the Duma was dissolved, he signed the Vyborg Manifesto , whereupon he was sentenced to three months in prison.

In 1906 Kotlyarevsky became a Freemason and member of the Lodge Renewal of the Grand Orient de France , in which he was immediately an orator. He wrote a lot in the Russian newspaper about domestic and foreign policy and national issues.

In 1920 Kotlyarevsky was one of the accused in the trial against the anti- Bolshevik Tactical Center and was released from custody on April 28 with a travel ban. On August 20, 1920 he was sentenced to death by shooting for participation in counter-revolutionary organizations with the aim of overthrowing Soviet power through armed uprising, conditionally replaced by 5 years imprisonment. On November 10, 1920, he was acquitted by the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Kotlyarevsky held lectures at the Free Academy for Spiritual Culture , of which he became director in 1922. He then worked for the journal Soviet Law and at the Institute for Soviet Law , and he was legal advisor to the Justice Commission. He worked in state control, studying finance, local economics and international affairs. From the end of 1921 Kotlyarevsky was a member of the literature section of the State Academy of Fine Arts . In 1936 he became an honorary member of the International Institute for Legal Sociology . In 1938 he lived in Moscow and advised the Council for the Study of Productive Forces in the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Institute of Constitutional Law of the Academy of Sciences.

On April 17, 1938, Kotlyarevsky was arrested for belonging to terrorist organizations and subversive activity . On April 14, 1939, the Military College of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to death by shooting for espionage and involvement in counter-revolutionary organizations. He was buried on the territory of the Kommunarka State Farm in Moscow Oblast . On August 8, 1956, this court overturned the judgment for the absence of a criminal offense . The rehabilitation thereon made the prosecution of 1920 on 18 November 1992 by the Procurator General of the Russian Federation .

Web links

• Biography on hrono.ru (Russian)