Chubinsky, Mikhail Pavlovich

Mikhail Pavlovich Chubinsky ( November 7 (19), 1871 , Kiev - January 19, 1943 , Belgrade ) - Russian legal scholar and journalist.

Mikhail Pavlovich Chubinsky
ukr Mikhail Pavlovich Chubinsky
Date of Birth
Place of Birth
Date of death
Place of death	Belgrade , Yugoslavia
A country
Scientific field	jurisprudence
Place of work
Alma mater	Kiev University
Academic title	Professor
Awards and prizes

Early years

Born in Kiev in a hereditary noble family. His father was the famous ethnographer Pavel Platonovich Chubinsky , author of the words of the modern national anthem of Ukraine . Primary education received at home. Then he graduated from the Kiev 2nd Gymnasium and Pavel Galagan College . Higher education in Kiev University. St. Vladimir at the Faculty of Law. During his studies he was awarded a university scholarship and an honorary comment for scientific work. He was left at the university to prepare for a professorship. After assigning him the degree of privat-docent, he reads the law at Kiev University, Yaroslavl Demidov Juridical Lyceum , Kharkov University .

Scientific Activities

Already at the age of 24, he submitted to his scientific mentor his work “The Reverse Action of Criminal Law”, which was recommended for publication and was published in 1896. Since 1897 - assistant professor, reads at Kiev University. St. Vladimir author's course "on new teachings in the field of criminal law and process." At that time, he also worked in the investigative area of ​​Kiev and the Kiev district court.

Later he was sent abroad to familiarize himself with the latest legal theories and worked there under the guidance of Professors Liszt and Lammash in Halle and Vienna ^[1] . The result of these trips was the writing of the master's thesis "The motive of criminal activity and its importance in criminal law." After public defense of the dissertation in 1900, he was awarded the title of Master of the Moscow University .

In the future, working as a teacher of jurisprudence, continuing to engage in the theory of law. In 1900-1902, professor at the Department of Criminal Law in the Demidov Juridical Lyceum; in 1902-1906 for the same department at Kharkov University; in 1906-1916 - Assistant Professor, St. Petersburg University , in 1916-1918. - Professor of Yurievsky University. At the same time in 1906-1909 he was the director of the Demidov Juridical Lyceum, also worked at the Aleksandrovsky Lyceum , Aleksandrovsky Military Law Academy , and the Nevskaya Court of Justice. He participated in the Congress of the Russian group of the International Union of Criminalists, in the 2nd International Prison Congress in Budapest , in the Congress of Criminalists in Moscow in 1909 ^[1] .

The main result of scientific work was the work "Essays on the history of criminal law", published in 1904, after which Chubinsky was awarded the degree of " doctor of criminal law." The scientific activity of Mikhail Chubinsky was also noted abroad - in 1902 his work “Professor Emil Wahlberg and his importance in the science of criminal law” was published in German translation.

Social activities and political views

Mikhail Chubinsky was a member of several educational societies, and he was the chairman of the board of directors in the Kharkiv literacy society . According to political views he was a moderate liberal , supported the party of constitutional democrats , in 1905-1906 he was the chairman of its Kharkov bureau. He acted as a publicist in public and special journals, in particular the Vestnik Pravo and the Journal of the Ministry of Justice ^[2] . He was a deputy from the Kharkov University in meetings on university reform in St. Petersburg since the beginning of 1906. Since May 1917, Senator of the Criminal Cassation Department of the Governing Senate . ^[1] He was in Kharkov in the local box of the Great East of the peoples of Russia .

He gave public lectures in various cities of Russia: in Moscow , Voronezh , and Kharkov in 1916, the lectures “World Tragedy (War, Culture and Law”) took place ^[3] .

During the Civil War

According to Denikin , as a moderate liberal and legal theorist, Chubinsky did not accept the revolution, with all its arbitrariness and legal nihilism ^[4] . When hetman Skoropadsky made an attempt to unite the conservative forces of Ukraine, Chubinsky supported him and from April to July 1918 served as minister of judicial affairs in the government of the hetman, from July he was a senator and chairman of the Criminal Court. After the fall of Skoropadsky, Chubinsky, rejecting the extreme nationalism and leftism of the Ukrainian Directory , left for the Don , occupied by that time by the Volunteer Army . In the government of Denikin Chubinsky served as chief prosecutor. In Denikin’s memoirs, Chubinsky supports the Cadet “National Center”. The attitude of the “National Center” to the White Guards was contradictory - while welcoming their desire to restore Russia as a single power of law and order, its representatives, including Chubinsky, at the same time criticized certain aspects of their activities - for example, the introduction of compulsory education only in Russian ^[4] . Subsequently, Chubinsky lived in Crimea , where he collaborated with the Wrangel government and tried to establish a dialogue between the Ukrainian autonomists and Wrangel ^[5] .

Emigration

At the end of March 1920, was evacuated to Belgrade. During the years of emigration, Mikhail Chubinsky lived in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, Slovenes (Yugoslavia since 1929) , was a professor in Belgrade and Subotica ^[6] .

In 1920, the chairman of the constituent assembly of the Union of Lawyers in Belgrade. Since 1920, member of the Permanent Council on Legislative Issues under the Ministry of Justice of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia). Worked on drafts of the new Criminal Code and Criminal Justice in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He created a non-partisan association in Belgrade, which in 1922 was transformed into a local department of the Russian National Committee. Since 1921 a member of the Russian academic group in Belgrade (Yugoslavia). He headed the National Circle, "who stood on the platform of the National Congress 1921".

In 1924 he was initiated into Freemasonry in the Russian Parisian bed “ Astraea ”. Then he became a founding member of the Paris Hermes lodge. In 1926 he became the founder and chairman of the Russian Masonic circle (since 1927, the lodges) "Maxim Kovalevsky." He played a prominent role in the Yugoslav Freemasonry, a member of a number of Belgrade lodges. The assistant (1st deputy) of the great orator of the Grand Lodge of Yugoslavia (the Union of the Lodges of Yugoslavia) in 1930-1934, her speaker in 1934-1937.

Collaborated with a number of special Serbian publications, including in the journal Letopis Matica Srpske, as well as with the Belgrade Russian Thought. Member of the editorial board of the "Russian affairs", in 1926-1927 a member of the editorial board of the journal "Appeal", then - the newspaper "Russia". Editor of the monarchist "Tsar herald". From 18/1/1926 valid, from 10/31/1926 Honorary Member of the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists in Yugoslavia. Repeatedly spoke at meetings of this Union with public reports, presided at meetings. In the summer of 1927 he became one of the organizers of the National Bloc in Belgrade. In 1928, he participated in the 1st Congress of Russian foreign writers and journalists, held in Belgrade, where he was elected one of the deputy members of the board of the Foreign Union of Russian Writers and Journalists. In 1936 he left the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists in Yugoslavia in protest against the speech of I. N. Golenishchev-Kutuzov , who declared that the monarchists have nothing in common with literature. Honorary member of the Union of Russian Lawyers in Subotica. He led the Voivodina Department of the Association of Progressive and Democratic Forces of the Russian Emigration in Yugoslavia in Subotica. Member of the creation of the Institute and the Museum of Criminology in Belgrade .

Son: Chubinsky, Arseny Mikhailovich (12/13/1895, Kiev - 5.2.1962, USA) was also a lawyer, doctor of law at the University of Belgrade, entered the Masonic lodges with his father, then moved to the USA.