Sergei Filippovich Kovalik (1846-1926) - a revolutionary populist, one of the organizers of "going to the people."
| Sergey Filippovich Kovalik | |
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| Date of Birth | October 13 (25), 1846 |
| Place of Birth | village Svadkovichi, Cherikovsky district , Mogilev province Russian empire |
| Date of death | April 26, 1926 (aged 79) |
| Place of death | Minsk BSSR , USSR |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire β  the USSR |
| Occupation | professional revolutionary |
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| Academic degree | |
| Religion | Orthodoxy |
| The consignment | Populists |
| Main ideas | populism |
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Biography
The nobleman, the son of an officer-Cossack of the Poltava province., Co-owner of the farm Svadkovichi and der. Kostyushkovichi of the Cherikov district and village Shiply Strokaylovsky volost of the Klimovichsky district of the Mogilev province. Mother died when Kovalik was two years old. He entered the Brest Cadet Corps in 1856, studied there until 1863 (during which time the corps changed its location from Moscow to Vilna), then (after the transfer of the cadet corps to St. Petersburg and transformation into a special class of the Pavlovsk Military School ) for another year. He was released from military service and released from school with the civil rank of provincial secretary . In 1864 he entered the St. Petersburg University as a volunteer; in order to transfer to the status of a full-fledged student, he passed gymnasium exams as an external student at the Mogilev gymnasium (1865). In 1868 he transferred as a volunteer to the University of Kiev, a mathematician. After graduating from Kiev University (1869), he received a Ph.D.
Justice of the peace Mglin district of Chernihiv province., Then the foreman of the congress of justices of the peace. Member of the provincial zemstvo council, deputy chairman of the Duma, mayor.
He shared the views of M. A. Bakunin . He organized populist circles in Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod and others. In July 1874 he was arrested and sentenced to 10 years of hard labor under the 193 trial . He served a link in Verkhoyansk , spent a quarter of a century in Siberia. Upon his return in 1898 he lived in the Blon estate near the Bonch-Osmolovsky . He later found work as an accountant and assistant overseer of the Minsk Excise Office, then was elected chairman of the Minsk Provincial Land Committee, was a teacher of analytical geometry at the Belarusian Polytechnic. The headman of the Minsk branch of the All-Union Society of Former Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers . He wrote in the journal βKatorga i Linkβ. The author of the memories.
He was buried in a military cemetery in Minsk .
Family
- Daughter - Maria Sergeevna (November 27, 1894, Balagansk, Irkutsk province - January 22, 1979, Leningrad) is married to Rodion Anatolyevich Bonch-Osmolovsky .
Memories
- Kovalik S.V. Revolutionary movement of the seventies and the process of 193 / posthumous ed. - M .: Publishing house of political prisoners, 1928. - 194 p. (Reprint of autobiography, articles in the "Former" and "Hard labor and exile")
- The old man [Kovalik SF] The movement of the seventies in the Great Process (193) // Past. 1906. No. 10. S. 1-30; No. 11. S. 30-72; No. 12. S. 56-81.
- The old man [Kovalik SF] One of the victims of the movement of the 70s. In memory of K.A. Lukashevich // Past. 1907. No. 1. S. 114-116.
- The old man [Kovalik SF] Letter to the editors // Past. 1907. No. 5. P. 311.
- Kovalik S. Revolutionaries-populists in penal servitude and exile (according to personal memoirs) // penal servitude and exile. 1924. No4 (11). S. 139-171.
- Kovalik S. To the biography of P.I. Voynaralsky // Katorga and the link. 1924. No4 (11). S. 245-251.
- Kovalik S. Sergey Alexandrovich Zhebunev // The penal servitude and the link. 1924. No. 5 (12). S.243-245.
- Autobiography in the Encyclopedic Dictionary "Pomegranate" (1925).