Taube, Mikhail Alexandrovich

Grandfather, Ferdinand Ivanovich Taube (1805-1870) - Russian engineer-travel engineer, colonel-engineer, real state adviser.

Father, Alexander Ferdinandovich (08.19.1834-12.07.1897), graduate of the Institute of Railway Engineers ; mother, Anna Yakovlevna (nee Butorova; 1833-1916).

He was a relative of N. K. Roerich ^[1] .

Brothers: Alexander (1864-1919), lieutenant general; Jacob (1865—?) And his twin Boris ([1865-1941) - the military; George (1867-1868); Sergei (1870—?), A travel engineer who remained after the revolution in his homeland, received the title of Honored Railway Worker of the USSR.

He married in 1897 to Raisa Vladimirovna Rogal-Kachur (09/29/1879 - 06/09/1962). Their children: daughters Nina (1898–?), Elena (02.15.1902–30.04.1966), Anna (1909–?) And Maria (1909–?).

In 1887 he graduated from the Sixth St. Petersburg Gymnasium with a gold medal, and in 1891 he graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg University with a diploma of the I degree (for the work “Reception of Roman Law in the West”); from December 1, 1891 he was left at the university to prepare for a professorship in the department of international law - a student of Professor F.F. Martens ; On May 28, 1896, he was approved as a master of international law (History of the origin of modern international law. Middle Ages. T. I. Introduction and part of the general. - St. Petersburg , 1894), and November 29, 1899 - doctors of international law (History of the origin of modern international law. Middle Ages. T. II. Part of the special. The principles of peace and law in international clashes of the Middle Ages. - Kharkov, 1899).

From January 1, 1897 he taught at Kharkov University , in 1903-1911. - at St. Petersburg University (replaced his teacher F.F. Martens at the department), in 1909-1917. - at the School of Law . Professor. He was a founding member of the Russian Society of the Law of the Sea (1905).

Since January 2, 1892, he was reckoned with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . He worked in the legal advisory department of the ministry under the leadership of F.F. Martens; Vice-Director of the Second Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (since 1905 ), then Advisor (since 1907 ), an indispensable member of the Council of this Ministry. In 1904-1905, he took part, as the legal representative of Russia, in the Paris International Investigation Commission for the Gull incident , together with Admiral F.V. Dubasov, played a large role in successfully defending Russian interests in this complex matter.

In 1908-1909, he was authorized by Russia at the conference on the law of the sea in London .

Since November 18, 1909 he was the representative of Russia in the Permanent Court of the International Arbitration Court in The Hague . He had to give numerous explanations, prepare certificates and provide advice on international law.

In 1914, a few weeks before the outbreak of World War I , he persuaded the Russian government to remove all Russian gold stored there from German banks.

Since April 22, 1911 he was a friend of the Minister of Education L.A. Casso . Like him, he adhered to conservative political views. After the death of Casso, from October 19, 1914 to January 11, 1915, he temporarily ran the ministry . Repeatedly spoke in the State Duma (on the issue of separation from the Kingdom of the Polish Kholm province in 1912, etc.). He participated in the development of the law on the introduction of universal primary education.

He was appointed February 11, 1915 as a senator with the rank of Privy Councilor ; January 1, 1917 became a member of the State Council by appointment, a member of the right-wing faction.

He was a full member of the Imperial Historical Society ( 1912 ), the Imperial Society of Adherents of Historical Education ( 1914 ), an honorary member of the Moscow Archaeological Institute ( 1912 ), Vitebsk ( 1909 ), Tula ( 1913 ) and Pskov ( 1916 ) provincial scholarly archival commissions and the Pskov Archaeological Society ( 1916 ).

He was professionally engaged in genealogy, the author of studies on the history of the birth of von Taube and von Ikskül . He was one of the main developers of the Charter of the Russian Genealogical Society ( 1897 ), was its founding member; March 15, 1914 was elected fellow chairman of this society. Since May 14, 1905 - a full member of the Historical and Pedigree Society in Moscow.

The author of scientific papers on the origin of the Russian state and the baptism of Russia, the relationship between Russia and the Catholic Church. Conducted research of the family tree of the Roerichs ^[2] .

He was a full member of the St. Petersburg Philosophical Society ( 1906 ), an honorary member of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy in St. Petersburg ( 1913 ). In exile, published a collection of poems "Visions and Thoughts." The memoirist.

MA Taube was a well-known figure in the anti-war movement. He was on the board of the St. Petersburg Peace Society. In a series of works written before and after the 1917 revolution (Christianity and the Eternal Peace, Eternal Peace or the Eternal War; Thoughts on the League of Nations), Taube considered the problem of achieving eternal peace ^[3] .

Vice-President of the Committee of the Society of Friends of Culture, Russian Section of the French Association of Friends of the Roerich Museum, Chairman of the Russian Association of the Roerich Society in Paris, Personal Representative of Nicholas Roerich in Europe, General Delegate and Chairman of the Department of the Roerich Museum in New York, organizer and chairman of the Special Committee of the Roerich Pact at the European center.

He was actively preparing the signing of the International Covenant for the Protection of Cultural and Historical Property ( the Roerich Pact and the Banner of Peace ) in the late 1920s and early 1930s in Europe and the USA, which was signed in the USA on April 15, 1935, and on the basis of which the Hague In 1954, a convention was signed on the protection and protection of cultural property during military conflicts.

Since 1917 - in exile. Member of the Special Committee on Russian Affairs in Finland ( 1918 ), Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Finnish government formed in exile under the leadership of A.F. Trepov ( 1918 ). Then he lived in Sweden (lectured on the history of international relations and international law at Uppsala University) and Germany . Since 1928 he lived in Paris , where he taught at the branch of the Russian Institute at the Law Faculty of the University of Paris and at the European Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was a member of the scientific council of the Russian Scientific Institute in Berlin , and lectured at a number of universities in Germany and Belgium . He continued to study international law. Member of the Academy of International Law in The Hague. In 1932-1937 - professor at the University of Münster (Germany), after terminating the contract with him (by special order from Berlin) he returned to Paris.

Member of the Supreme Monarchist Council and the Icon Society in Paris. In the 1930s, he was the legal adviser to Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich . He took part in the development of a new charter on the Imperial Family as amended, which was adhered to by the Grand Dukes Kirill Vladimirovich and Vladimir Kirillovich .

He became a member of the Central Genealogical Commission formed on December 1, 1951 for, established to take measures to suppress imposture, establish an arbitration estate court, general registration of noble families, to publish a collection of Russian titled and untitled nobility, and generally to concentrate in one institution everything that relates to Russian nobility, where interested persons could apply and receive official information in accordance with the laws of the Russian Empire. He was a member of the Russian Historical and Pedigree Society in America.

A parishioner of the Holy Trinity Church in Paris , a member of the Russian Apostle , was published in the newsletter Our Parish .

• The history of the origin of modern international law. - T. I. St. Petersburg., 1894. - T. II. Kharkov, 1899.
• Christianity and the organization of international peace / 2nd ed. M., 1905.
• The system of interstate law. St. Petersburg, 1909.
• The Eastern Question and Austro-Russian politics in the first half of the 19th century. - PG., 1916.
• Eternal Peace or Eternal War: Thoughts on the League of Nations. - Berlin, 1922.
• Studies on the historical development of international law in Eastern Europe. 1926 (in French).
• Rome and Russia in the pre-Mongol period . Paris, 1928.
• Agrava: About the sayings of Jesus Christ not recorded in the Gospel. - Warsaw, 1936 .-- 150 s. (also: M .: Krutitsky Patriarchal Compound, 2007).
• Agraffe of the Church Fathers. Warsaw, 1937.
• Agrava in ancient Christian apocrypha. Paris, 1947.
• Agrava in the Jewish and Mohammedan scriptures. Paris, 1951.
• Emperor Paul I - Grand Master of the Order of Malta. Paris, 1955 (in French).
• “Zarnitsa”: memories of the tragic fate of pre-revolutionary Russia (1900-1917). M., 2006.

• Mikhail Taube was an official opponent in defending A.N. Mandelstam's dissertation.

• Taube, Mikhail Aleksandrovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Bovkalo A.A. Baron Mikhail Aleksandrovich Taube // From the History of the Russian Genealogical Society. Collection of articles and materials. SPb. 2001.S. 88-93.
• Mikhailovsky G.N. Notes. From the history of the Russian Foreign Ministry. 1914-1920.
• Starodubtsev G. S. International legal science of Russian emigration. M., 2000.
• Kolupaev, Vladimir Evgenievich . The mental and sociocultural picture of the life of Russian Catholics in Paris in the 20th century. // Yearbook of historical and anthropological research. M .: Publishing house "EKON-INFORM", 2010. S. 64 - 73.
• Kolupaev, Vladimir Evgenievich Works of M. A. Taube on Byzantine Studies in Russian Abroad of the 20th Century // Russian Byzantine Studies: Traditions and Prospects. M .: Publishing house of Moscow University, 2011. 122-124.
• On the correspondence of M. Taube with L. Tolstoy Kolupaev, Vladimir Evgenievich Lev Tolstoy and new about him (according to Russian Catholic sources in Italy)

• (background) Taube Mikhail Aleksandrovich RELIGIOUS WORKERS AND WRITERS OF THE RUSSIAN ABROAD
• L.N. Tolstoy and M.A. Taube, Correspondence, Christianity Vladimir Kolupaev. LEV NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY AND NEW ABOUT IT (BY THE RUSSIAN CATHOLIC SOURCES IN ITALY) // UFO 2011, No. 109
• M. Taube FRANCE Parish of the Holy Trinity in Paris
• Taube M. A. Biographical Directory of the Figures of the Russian Catholic Apostolate in Emigration 1917-1991 Omsk - 2005 / Compiled by S. Golovanov