Bagels, Alexander Alexandrovich

Born in the family of an official of the Ministry of Railways. He graduated from the St. Petersburg Institute of Railway Engineering .

In 1912, he donated 100,000 rubles to the establishment of a special laboratory at the Yekaterinburg Mining Institute for the study of coal, oil, peat, etc. in the Urals. At the suggestion of the mayor A. Obukhov elected to the honorary citizens of Yekaterinburg ^[2] .

In 1912 he was elected to the IV State Duma from the Perm province. He was a member of the Duma faction of progressives . The faction was supported by large Russian manufacturers ( A. I. Konovalov , I. N. Efremov , and the Ryabushinsky brothers), who subsequently took an active part in the work of the Military Industrial Committees during the First World War.

As the commissar of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma on the morning of February 28, 1917 he was sent to the Ministry of Railways with support in the form of a detachment of soldiers. He used the railway telegraph to notify the heads of all railway stations in the country that the power had passed to the State Duma:

According to Yu. V. Lomonosov , this telegram in March played a decisive role: by the morning of March 1, that is, two days before the abdication of Nicholas, all of Russia, or at least that part of it that lies no further than 10— 15 versts from the railways, I learned that a revolution took place in Petrograd. From the military front to Vladivostok, from Murmansk to the Persian border, this telegram turned out on every page. There was no doubt. The old power has fallen: a new one has been born. After this, the abdication of Nicholas and Michael seemed a secondary formality. From the telegram of Bublikov everyone knew that already on February 28, in fact, power was in the hands of the Duma. Was this really so? Of course not. Bagels .. tweaked the reality. In doing so, he rendered a huge, yet unconscious, service to the Russian revolution and at the same time delayed its natural course, surrounding the Duma with an undeserved halo ^[3] .

February 28, 1917 ordered to stop the royal train, leaving Stavka in Tsarskoye Selo. By decision of the Provisional Government, on March 8, 1917, as part of a delegation of State Duma commissioners, he arrived in Mogilev to arrest the former tsar and send him to Tsarskoye Selo.

He opposed the growth of workers' wages and against the law of the Provisional Government of June 12 on increasing income tax and corporate income tax.

On August 13, 1917, at the All-Russian State Conference in Moscow, on behalf of the "commercial and industrial class" he described A. F. Kerensky as "the main speaker", and the Minister of Finance N. V. Nekrasov as the "main speaker." From the speech of A. A. Bublikov at the State meeting in response to the accusations of I. Tsereteli of entrepreneurs in desertion:

You made a great mistake: you applauded the words that trade and industry are the enemy. We wait and believe that these old remnants, these words will come out of Russian everyday life. And then the commercial and industrial class will have the greatest happiness among you, shoulder to shoulder, to stand in the ranks of the workers for the benefit of the new Russia, Russia, which he longed to see free for many years and from which he would never give up.

The speech ended with shouts of “Bravo!” And applause. The handshake of the “citizen” Bublikov and the “noble leader of Russian democracy” Irakli Tsereteli was the culmination of the meeting.

In September 1917 he left for France. He was elected to the interim executive committee abroad (Paris, 1920; meeting of former members of the State Duma); in 1921 he participated in the work of the congress of the Russian National Association (Paris). He was published in the journalism department of the newspaper “General business” (Paris).

He later moved to the USA; collaborated with the New Russian Word , wrote articles on the restoration of the national economy after the Civil War, on American investments in the development of Russian railways.

Source - MFN Electronic Catalogs

• A. A. Bublikov. On the issue of straightening the Petersburg-Siberian transit highway. - SPb. : Leshtuk. steam rush. P.O. Yablonsky, 1905. - 60 p.
• Bagels A. A. On the issue of the Tomsk-Tashkent Railway. - SPb. : Sobr. Ing. put. communication., 1907. - 10 p.
• Bublikov A. A. On the issue of organizing private railway construction: Notes on the Charter of the North-Don Island d. - St. Petersburg. : type of. t-va p. f. “Electrotype. N. Ya. Stoykova ”, 1909. - 84 p. - (Sov. Congresses of representatives of industry and trade. Mater. On the railway issue. No. 28).
• Bublikov A. A. On the military significance of the proposed road: To the project of Dombrovsko-Donetsk railway. d. - St. Petersburg. , 1909. - 4 p.
• A. A. Bublikov. On the need for urgent reform of the setting of the railway tariff business in Russia. - SPb. , 1915. - 84 p. - (Sov. Congresses of representatives of industry and trade. Mater. On the railway issue. No. 34).
• Bublikov A. A. On the principle of shortest distances. - SPb. : type of. t-va p. f. “Electrotype. N. Ya. Stoykova ”, 1910. - 45 p.
• A. A. Bublikov. On forms of state support to railway enterprises. - SPb. , 1907. - 49 p. - (Sov. Congresses of representatives of industry and trade. Mater. On the railway issue. No. 13).
• Bublikov A. A. On the search for railways. - SPb. : type of. “Anchor”, 1907. - 27 p. - (Sov. Congresses of representatives of industry and trade. Mater. On the railway issue. No. 1).
• Bublikov A. A. On the organization of railway construction. - SPb. : type of. t-va p. f. “Electrotype. N. Ya. Stoykova ”, 1909. - 37 p. - (Sov. Congresses of representatives of industry and trade. Mater. On the railway issue. No. 29).
• A. Bublikov. The current situation in Russia and the railway issue. - SPb. : Sobr. Ing. put. communication., 1906. - 59 p.
• Bublikov A.A. Private railway construction in recent years. - SPb. : type of. t-va p. f. “Electrotype. N. Ya. Stoykova ”, 1914. - 55 p.
• A. A. Bublikov. Economic consequences of the construction of an extensive network of access roads and straight lines. - SPb. : Sobr. Ing. put. communication., 1907. - 12 p.

journalism

• Bagels A. A. The Russian revolution (its beginning, the arrest of the king, prospects). Impressions and thoughts of an eyewitness and participant . - New York, 1918. - 160 p.

• Bagels Alexander Alexandrovich // Mnukhin L., Avril M., Losskaya V. Russian Abroad in France 1919-2000. - M .: Science; House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva, 2008.
• Bagels Alexander Alexandrovich (neopr.) . Chronos. Date of appeal September 16, 2013.
• Museum of the History of Yekaterinburg. Honorary Citizen of Yekaterinburg A. Bagels on the Russian Revolution. (unavailable link) Retrieved September 17, 2013.