Trubetskoy, Sergey Evgenievich

Born on February 27, 1890 in Moscow, in the house of the maternal grandfather of Prince Alexander Alekseevich Shcherbatov . Father - Prince Yevgeny Nikolaevich Trubetskoy , religious philosopher and jurist. Mother - Princess Vera Alexandrovna, nee Shcherbatova .

Received primary education at home. He traveled a lot with his parents in Europe . Until 1906 he lived in Kiev , spending the summer in the Shcherbatovy Nara estate near Moscow. In 1905 he entered the 6th grade of the Kiev First Gymnasium . The following year he moved with his family to Moscow.

He graduated from the 7th Moscow Grammar School with a gold medal and the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University (1912). He studied with professors L. M. Lopatin and G. I. Chelpanov . He taught at Moscow University.

He participated in the Kaluga noble assembly , was elected a deputy of the nobility .

With the outbreak of World War I, he tried to go to the front as a volunteer , but did not get there due to health problems. He consisted of an assistant commissioner in a medical train , assistant head of the control department in the Committee of the North-Western Front , a fellow chairman of the front committee authorized in the Representation of Zemgora, in the liquidation commission for the Kingdom of Poland .

In 1917 he moved to Moscow, lived with his aunt S. A. Petrovo-Solovovo . He served as an authorized representative in the financial department of the Main Committee, and later as a senior clerk in the Moscow Union of Cooperative Societies.

In 1919 he entered the National Center , participated in the Six, which tried to coordinate the activities of the National Center, the Union of the Renaissance of Russia and the Union of Public Figures. On January 20, 1920 he was arrested and kept in the internal prison of the Special Division of the Cheka on the Lubyanka. Special investigator Agranov conducted his case. He was transferred to solitary confinement. At the same time, he learned about the arrest of his sister Sofia and the death of his father in Novorossiysk . He was later transferred to Butyrka prison . The Supreme Tribunal of the RSFSR (the prosecutor was actually the chairman of the tribunal Krylenko ) sentenced Trubetskoy to be shot, which was replaced by ten years of strict isolation. He was transferred to the Tagansk prison , participated in the church services of Metropolitan Cyril , who was also held in this prison.

In 1921, the dean of the Faculty of History and Philology Grushka petitioned for Trubetskoy to be sent to the university. The All-Russian Central Executive Committee granted the petition and the prince was sent to the university and left in prison. At the same time, Trubetskoy learned that his sister and mother were resettled in a communal apartment. In the summer of 1922 he was again arrested, was detained in the GPU internal prison on the Lubyanka. There I met with Metropolitan Kirill (Smirnov) , philosophers S. L. Frank and N. A. Berdyaev . At this time, the investigator first proposed to Trubetskoy to sign a request for departure abroad, but he refused. Subsequently, the prince nevertheless signed a letter of departure, together with his mother and sister. I left Moscow for Petrograd to sail to Stettin on a German steamboat . Upon arrival, met with his brother Alexander. Moved to Berlin .

In 1922-1938 he collaborated with the Russian All-Military Union : compiled bulletins on the situation in the USSR , was a political adviser to generals Kutepov and Miller . In 1938-1949 he was engaged in translations and journalism. He left the memoirs “Past”, in which he described his conclusion in the first years of Soviet power.

He died on October 24, 1949 in Klamar . Since 1923 he was married to Princess Marina Nikolaevna Gagarina (1897-1984).

• Prince Sergey Evgenievich Trubetskoy Past. - Moscow: DEM, 1991.

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