Sergei Dmitrievich Botkin

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Sergei Dmitrievich Botkin ( Russian Сергей Дмитриевич Боткин * June 29 ^{. Jul} / 11. July  1869 ^greg. In Moscow , Russian Empire ; † 22. April 1945 in Paris , France ) was a Russian diplomat.

Live and act

Sergei Botkin comes from a family of hereditary honorary citizens of Russia (this class was equated with the nobility at the beginning of the 20th century ). His father Dmitri Petrovich Botkin (1829–1889) was a merchant and a well-known collector of pictures by foreign painters. He was married to Sofija Sergejewna Masurina (d. 1889). The family lived in Moscow and on the Tichi Khutor family estate in Kharkov Governorate .

After completing his law degree at Moscow University in 1892, Sergei Botkin entered the diplomatic service at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. At first he worked in its Asia department. In 1897 he became second secretary of the Russian embassy in Stuttgart . 1900–1904 he was second secretary at the embassy in Bern , 1904–1909 first second, then first secretary at the embassy in Vienna , 1909–1911 first secretary at the embassy in Constantinople . In 1911 he became first secretary at the embassy in Berlin , where he joined the charitable brotherhood of Prince Vladimir in the same year . In the summer of 1914 he was promoted to envoy in Darmstadt , but before he could take up the new post, he and the other members of the embassy had to leave Berlin at the outbreak of World War I and return to Russia by train via Denmark and Sweden . During the war he worked in the Foreign Ministry as the head of the Prisoner of War Department . During the Russian Civil War he was the Russian Ambassador to Berlin from 1919 to 1920, where he represented the governments of Alexander Kolchak and Anton Denikin . Until 1936 he was also chairman of the Russian Committee of the Red Cross in Germany, the Russian delegation in Berlin (converted into the trust center for Russian refugees in Germany in 1922) and the Association of Russian Lawyers. 1924-1936 he was chairman of the brotherhood of the holy Prince Vladimir , which he had registered in Berlin in 1923 as a registered non-profit association. He was also a board member of the Russian Palestine Society for many years .

After the National Socialist authorities, as part of their policy of conformity, put increasing pressure on the Russian exile organizations in Germany to replace executives who were classified as insufficiently pro-German, and Sergei Botkin was classified as "Francophile" because of his church affiliation with the Paris-based Metropolitan Evlogi he tried to escape political pressure by moving to Paris. In the summer of 1935 he visited Berlin for the last time . From 1936 he was refused any further entry into Germany, so that he had to give up all offices in Berlin. His successor as chairman of the Russian Confidential Office in Berlin was, with the approval of the authorities, General Wasili Biskupski. Princess Vera Konstantinovna Romanova was elected as the new chairman of the Brotherhood of Holy Prince Vladimir .

Sergei Botkin died in Paris and was buried in the Russian cemetery in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois .

family

Sergei Botkin was married to Nina von Bützow , the daughter of the Russian diplomat Eugen von Bützow .

Their daughter Nina (1901–1966) married Sergej Alexejewitsch Belewski-Schukowski (1904–1953), a descendant of Emperor Alexander II , in 1926 .

The cousin Sergei Botkins, the personal physician Evgeni Sergejewitsch Botkin (1865-1918) (her fathers Dimitri Petrovich (1828-1889) and Sergei Petrovich (1832-1889) were sons of the Moscow tea manufacturer Petr Kononowitsch Botkin (1781-1853)), was born on Murdered July 17, 1918 together with the royal family in Yekaterinburg .

literature

• Karl Schlögel : The Great Exodus. Russian emigration and its centers 1917 to 1941. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1994. ISBN 3-406-38656-3 .
• Karl Schlögel: Chronicle of Russian Life in Germany 1918–1941. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1999.
• "Bratski Westnik" (Bratstwo-Bote), № 21, Bad Kissingen 2006.

Web links

• Short biography (russ.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A. Krylov-Tolstikowitsch. "Pridvorny Kalendar na 1915. Commentarii" (Comments on the 1915 court calendar). Moscow, 2015. p. 89 (Russian)
2. ^ State Archives of the Russian Federation. Russian Diaspora Department. AALampe file, file 5853, volume 1 (AALampes correspondence with SDBotkin).