Kiev club of Russian nationalists

The club was created on the initiative of A. I. Savenko and V. E. Chernov in 1908 . The club was conceived after the revolution of 1905-1907 as an organization capable of uniting national-minded Russian people regardless of their party affiliation around the idea of ​​a dominant position in the state of the Russian people. The purpose of the organization was declared: “the dissemination in society of the ideas of Russian nationalism, national identity, the implementation of the ideas of peaceful political and cultural development of Russia, the clarification of the needs and requirements of the population of the region and the satisfaction of their legal ways, the fight against the harmful effects of cosmopolitanism and anti-Russian, anti-state and antisocial, mainly, the struggle against the Polish onslaught and Ukrainophilism and, finally, the unification of people professing the principles of the national-Russian state shock ”.

The charter of KKRN was approved on March 19, 1908 . Club members were subdivided into honorary members, founding members, full members and collaborating members. The club was governed by a Board of 18 members and 2 candidates. Elections to the Council were held annually. In 1909, there were 326 people in the KKRN, and in 1913 already 738. A reading room was opened at the club, in which the newspapers “ Kievlyanin ”, “ Russian Banner ”, “ Russia ”, “ Veche ”, “ Kremlin ” and others were registered, and also magazines “ Historical Bulletin ”, “ Peace Work ”. The club regularly held meetings at which reports were read, and urgent topics were discussed.

KKRN paid great attention to the Ukrainian issue. Club members saw a serious danger in the activities of “conscious Ukrainians” in Ukraine , aimed, in their opinion, at a split in the Russian people (which, according to ethnographic ideas in Russian science of that time, was divided into Belarusians, Great Russians and Little Russians) ^[2] . KKRN participated in the organization of church and civil celebrations, the installation of monuments, actively collaborated with organizations of Galician Rusyns . The activities of KKRN in 1911 were supported by P. A. Stolypin , saying in a speech to the club’s deputation: “My sympathy and support are entirely on your side. I consider you and the leaders of your club in general the salt of the land here. ” One of the goals of the club was to increase the awareness of citizens, their moral and moral character. The club, among other things, worked to prevent Jewish pogroms : for example, after Stolypin was hospitalized with a mortal wound, a meeting of leaders of all right-wing organizations in Kiev was held at the club’s premises, at which a decision was made to prevent any manifestations, “so that not to give them food for violent acts ”, as a prominent CCIR member V. G. Iosefi stated ^[3] .

During the First World War, the KKRN members who were not mobilized organized charity support for the Russian army and arranged for the reception of the wounded in club premises. In 1917, the Kiev Club of Russian Nationalists was renamed the Club of Progressive Russian Nationalists on the initiative of A. I. Savenko, who was significantly "weaned", which is why many monarchists turned his back on him. Soon, the club’s active activities ceased, and in 1919 many of its members were shot during the Red Terror , when after the capture of Kiev by the Bolsheviks in January 1919, a list of club members with detailed addresses fell into the Cheka ; according to this list, about 60 people were arrested, of which at least 53 people were shot ^[4] . The Bolshevik newspaper reported:

The first thing went gentlemen from the camp of Russian nationalists. The choice was made very well and that’s why. The club of "Russian nationalists" with Shulgin and Savenko at the head was the most powerful support of the imperial throne, it included landowners, homeowners and merchants of the Right-Bank Ukraine.
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No matter how many governments there were after the revolution, not one of them touched the Pychnov nest. Therefore, the whole mass of the Black-Hundred bourgeoisie, who voted for the “Russian list”, including 53,000, felt very calm in Kiev.
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The shooting of the club of Russian nationalists, breaking up the organization of "farmers-owners" - Protofisovsky Golitsyn , Kochubeyev , etc. gives a good lesson to the Ukrainian black hundred.

- An editorial of the Bolshevik newspaper of May 25, 1919 . - Kiev, 1919.

See also: Members of the Kiev Club of Russian Nationalists

The scientists were members of the CCRC: V. E. Chernov , T. D. Florinsky , Yu. A. Kulakovsky , M. N. Lapinsky , V. K. Lindeman , A. A. Muratov , V. N. Protsenko , A. O. Pospishil , P. N. Ardashev , N. A. Obolonsky , S. T. Golubev , P. Ya. Armashevsky , I. P. Matchenko , K. D. Popov ; representatives of the clergy: prot. G. Y. Prozorov , M. A. Stelmashenko , M. D. Zlatoverkhovnikov , S. I. Tregubov , M. V. Mitrotsky , Tikhon (Lyashchenko) ; retired generals: V. I. Baskakov , A. I. Evsky , P. G. Zhukov , P. K. Lange , N. E. Miloradovich ; merchants: G.P. Gladynyuk , J.P. Kobets, V.V. Konoplin , A.P. Slinko , J.N. Berner , P.A. Gomolyak , N.I. Chokolov ; public figures: V. Ya. Demchenko , Count A. A. Bobrinsky , I. M. Reva , D. V. Tutkevich , A. V. Storozhenko , K. E. Suvchinsky , S. N. Shchegolev , V. V. Shulgin , N.N. Chikhachev , V.V. Strakhov and others. The honorary members of the Club were A. A. Sidorov , D. I. Pikhno , Count L. A. Bobrinsky , T. D. Florinsky , I. A. Sikorsky , P. A. Zilov .

• Kiev club of Russian nationalists in the "Great Encyclopedia of the Russian people."
• Collection of the Club of Russian Nationalists. Third release. (inaccessible link)
• Lyubchenko V. B. “Kiev Club of Progressive Russian Nationalists” // Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine. At 10 t. / Redkol V.A. Smoliy ta іn. - Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine . - Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, 2009. - T. 4. Ka-Kom. - S. 321. - 528 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-966-00-0692-8 .