Nekrasov, Konstantin Fedorovich

Konstantin Fedorovich Nekrasov was born and raised in the estate of Karabikha, Yaroslavl province . Nephew of the poet N. A. Nekrasov . After graduating from the 2nd Moscow Cadet Corps , he left military service due to illness. He returned to Karabikha: first he was treated, then he helped his father manage the estate. After a quarrel with him, he got a job as a zemstvo chief in the Poshekhonsky district of the Yaroslavl province, after 3 years he was transferred to the Yaroslavl district , and then to Yaroslavl .

He was elected the vowel of the county and provincial zemstvos and the deputy of the Yaroslavl City Duma, but was dismissed without the right to occupy state and public posts for the free interpretation of the governor’s circulars. In 1905, he was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Empire of the first convocation as a member of the local department of the " People’s Freedom Party " from Yaroslavl. After the dissolution of the Duma, he signed the Vyborg Appeal on July 10, 1906, and was convicted of this under Art. 129, part 1, paragraphs 51 and 3 of the Criminal Code . He spent three months in the summer of 1908 in the Yaroslavl prison in Korovniki , and received a ban on political activity. Nekrasov’s main occupation in prison, he said, was reading.

Since 1909, he published in Yaroslavl, together with journalist N. Druzhinin, the daily newspaper of the democratic direction “The Voice ”, sometimes it was published in it as a journalist. The newspaper had a cultural and educational orientation; she did not conduct political agitation; she allowed herself to write critically only about local problems. A year later, the illustrated application “Voices” appeared - the weekly literary and local history magazine “Yaroslavl Zarnitsa”.

In 1911, Konstantin Fedorovich founded the " Publishing House of K. F. Nekrasov ." The publishing house had departments: “Translated fiction”, “Russian classics”, “Modern Russian literature”, “Historical literature”, “Monuments of the Renaissance”, “Monuments of ancient Russian art”, “Biographical library”, also produced a series of popular publications of Russian and foreign literature. A. Blok , K. Balmont , V. Bryusov , A. Bely , A. Tolstoy , D. Merezhkovsky , F. Sologub , M. Kuzmin , V. Khodasevich , B. Zaitsev and others collaborated with the publishing house.

In 1914, together with Moscow art critic P. Muratov, he published 6 issues of the literary and art magazine Sofia, dedicated to the study of ancient Russian art and its comparison with European art. N. Berdyaev , M. Gershenzon , V. Khodasevich, B. Zaitsev, I. Grabar , A. Benois and others collaborated in the journal. The publication was stopped due to the call to the front of many employees, including the editor P. Muratov.

Traveled to Russia, Europe, Iran. He was a member (for some time and chairman) of the Young Life society, which cared about the health of children from poor families. Founder of the Society for the Protection of Antiquities in Yaroslavl.

At the beginning of 1916, Nekrasov sold the printing house, transferred the right to publish the Golos newspaper to the Golos Publishing Partnership, represented by its main representative N. Druzhinin, and moved to Moscow. By 1917, the publishing house stopped its work. After the October Revolution, Konstantin Fedorovich worked in the department for the protection of monuments of art and antiquities, then in financial institutions. He studied the history of ancient Russian art, worked on the book "On Fresco Painting of Old Russian Masters", recommended by the Academy of Architecture for publication, but remained unpublished.

At first he lived in his own two-story house, then in the same house he lived in only one room, then partitioned into two small ones. In 1924, the wife of Konstantin Fedorovich died, leaving him with the 9-year-old son Nikolai. Konstantin Fedorovich Nekrasov died on September 22, 1940 in a train, on the road from the south, where he was resting. He was buried in Tuapse , the grave was not preserved. Its large and almost unexplored archive is stored in the State Archive of the Yaroslavl Region and the Yaroslavl Museum-Reserve .

• Wife (marriage completed on October 23, 1916 - source of the GAJAO. F.230. Op. 11 D. 448, L.253 ob-254 Metric book of the Holy Cross Church of the city of Yaroslavl) - Sofya Leonidovna Shcherba, nee? (1879-1924) ^[1] , even before meeting Nekrasov, she left her first husband, V. V. Shcherba, from whom she had a daughter, Tatyana ^[2]
  • Son - Nikolai (1915—?) ^[3] , December 27, 1941 the Krasnoye-Presnensky district military registration and enlistment office of the city of Moscow was called up to the front, before the draft he lived at 15 Malaya Gruzinskaya d. 6 ^{[4] [5]}

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