Aleksandr Andreyevich Titov ( 1878 - 1961 ) - Russian chemist , politician, entrepreneur , professor at Moscow University .
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| Occupation | Zemgorov Union Interim government " Union of the Renaissance of Russia " |
| Education | University of Leipzig (1903) |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Chemistry (1911) |
| Religion | Orthodoxy |
| The consignment | Party of People's Socialists |
Biography
Born on August 27 ( September 8 ), 1878 in the city of Rostov, Yaroslavl Province, in the family of a local archaeographer, paleographer and ethnographer, merchant Andrei Aleksandrovich Titov (1844-1911). Since there was no gymnasium in Rostov at that time, together with his cousin he studied at the German Peter and Paul College (1889-1895) at the Lutheran Church of St. Peter and Paul in Moscow. Then he entered the Physics and Mathematics Department of Moscow University , from where he was expelled and deported to his homeland in 1899 for participating in student unrest . In the same year he went to Germany to study, where he graduated from the University of Leipzig . In the fall of 1903 he defended his doctoral dissertation in chemistry on the topic of negative catalysis . In 1904 he returned to Russia and in 1905 he was approved by the Master of Chemistry by the Council of St. George's University .
He worked as a laboratory assistant at Moscow University , and since 1907 he was a private assistant professor in it. In 1911, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Moscow on the topic “Absorption of gases by activated carbon ”. In 1911, he left the university in connection with the Casso Case . In 1911, he became a professor of chemistry at Moscow People's University , and after the evacuation of the Warsaw Veterinary Institute - there.
He inherited from his father large commercial and industrial enterprises in Rostov with branches in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, and households in Moscow [1] .
He stood at the origins of the creation of the People's Socialist Party in 1906. He was elected to the vowels of the Rostov and Moscow City (in 1913 and 1917 [2] ) Dumas and the Yaroslavl Provincial Zemstvo . During the revolution of 1905-1907, he collaborated in the Organizing Committee of the All-Russian Peasant Union , campaigned in various cities of the country, and provided material assistance to the Socialist Revolutionaries . In 1915 he took part in the creation of the Zemgorov Union. In 1914-1918 he was a member of the Main Committee of the All-Russian Union of Cities (he organized the department for supplying the army with medicines).
After the Provisional Government came to power in May 1917, he accepted an invitation to take officeComrade Minister of Food A.V. Peshekhonov . He headed the Office for the Supply of Essentials, worked in the technical committee. He advocated strengthening state control over the economy. Due to a conflict with A.F. Kerensky over the proposal to raise bread prices, he resigned in September 1917.
The October Revolution categorically did not accept. In December 1917 - January 1918 a member of the Moscow " Union for the Defense of the Constituent Assembly ." He fought in the south of Russia. In 1918 he participated in the creation of the " Union of the Revival of Russia ." As a member of his negotiations with M.V. Alekseev , at the Iasi meeting (November 1918 - January 1919), with representatives of the Entente , A. I. Denikin .
In 1920 he emigrated to France , where he created the company "Biotherapy". In August 1920, in the case of the Tactical Center, he was recognized as an “ enemy of the people ” and sentenced to death [3] . Participated in the activities of "Zemgorov". Created Toothpaste Salogil. Since 1921 he taught at the Russian Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the University of Paris , since 1925 - at the Russian Commercial Institute in Paris. Member of the Board of the Russian Academic Union in France. Since March 1945, a member of the board of the Association of Russian Emigration for rapprochement with Soviet Russia. He was chairman of the Society of Russian Chemists in Paris.
He died on December 26, 1961 in Paris , was buried in the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois . The archives were transferred to the Library of Congress and the Rostov Kremlin Museum.
Notes
- ↑ One of them is located at Nikolsky (now Plotnikov ) Lane, 1/6.
- ↑ Bykov V.N. Vowels of the Moscow City Duma (1863-1917) // Moscow Journal. - 2009. - No. 3 .
- ↑ Case of the “Tactical Center and the organizations united in it” (1919) .
Links
- Chubykin I.V. Alexander A. Titov on the Chronos website // Political Figures of Russia 1917. Biographical Dictionary. - M., 1993.
- Krestyaninova E.I. Articles on the Rostov Kremlin Museum-Reserve website: Alexander Titov: circle of Moscow friends ; Notebook of Alexander Titov (1895) ; To the question of traditions and features of the subculture of the Rostov merchant environment in the 80s of the XIX century (according to the memoirs of A. A. Titov)
- Titov Alexander Andreevich . Chronicle of Moscow University . Date of treatment December 3, 2017.