Vasily Mikhailovich Popov ( April 1771 - April 23 [ May 5 ] 1842 ) - an associate of Prince A. N. Golitsyn , who shared his passion for mysticism . In the years 1817-24. Director of the Department of Public Education of the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and Public Education [1] , which was headed by Golitsyn.
| Vasily Mikhailovich Popov | |||||||
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| Predecessor | position established | ||||||
| Successor | position abolished | ||||||
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| Predecessor | position established | ||||||
| Birth | 1771 | ||||||
| Death | April 23 ( May 5 ) 1842 Kazan | ||||||
| Burial place | Zilantov Monastery , Kazan | ||||||
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| Years of service | 1779-1796 | ||||||
| Affiliation |  Russian empire | ||||||
| Type of army | army | ||||||
| Rank |  lieutenant | ||||||
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 reviews
- 2.1 Selected Works
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Came from the nobles. On April 20, 1779, he was assigned to serve in the Stored Commission ; on May 8, 1794 he was transferred to the provisioning staff. October 10, 1795 promoted to lieutenant . Since June 20, 1796 he served in the Life Hussar squadron . Dismissed from service on November 14, 1796 (during the transformation of the Life Hussar squadron into the combined Life-Hussar Cossack regiment).
From February 11, 1797 he was in Geroldia : translator, assessor (from November 23, 1799). From December 18, 1802, he was the head of the department of the Ministry of Justice . October 26, 1807 was sent to the Bialystok region under Senator Theils, who had the highest command to form one; since July 24, 1808 - vice-governor of the region, state adviser .
Since September 6, 1809 - Advisor to the Main Postal Board under the auspices of the Minister of the Interior ; since June 2, 1811 - Director of the Office of the Minister of the Interior; On August 31, 1811, he was granted the status of state councilors .
Religious and mystical moods in Russian society, manifested in the framework of the social movement of the era of Alexander I , resulted in the establishment of the St. Petersburg Bible Society . At the first meeting of the Society on January 11, 1813, AH Golitsyn was elected president, and V. M. Popov and A. I. Turgenev were elected secretaries. In 1816, V. M. Popov joined the Higher Translation Committee [2] , which was created for the editors of translations of the scriptures into Russian.
In the years 1817-1833. - President of the Committee of Guardianship of Israeli Christians, created to convert Jews to Christianity and form special colonies from them, while providing them with significant land allotments (the committee's guardian is Prince Golitsyn ). He was a member of the St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society .
From February 17, 1817 to 1825 - Director of the Department of Education. In November 1817, until February 28, 1818, by the Highest Command, he was in Moscow with MC Piletsky-Urbanovich with a special assignment - to dissuade the priest Selivanov in his errors.
In 1819 he translated into Russian the sermons of Mindel; in the Catholic Church on Nevsky Prospect, he listened, along with Magnitsky , Runich and others, to Gosner's sermons - both preachers belonged to the New Catholics.
In 1823, he was undergoing treatment abroad, returned on September 13, 1823. In 1824, he took part in the correction of the translation of the book of the preacher Gosner [3] (corrected 19 half-sheets), made by the former professor of Kazan University Yakovkin and official Treskinsky. Through the efforts of the enemies of Prince Golitsyn - Metropolitan Seraphim , Arakcheev and Photius - they decided to put the book on fire, and bring translators, correctors, publishers, censors and typographers to court. Gosner was sent abroad. Prince Golitsyn and his subordinates, including V. M. Popov, were dismissed from the Ministry of Education. Golitsyn received V. Popov as an employee in his (Postal) department as a member of the Council.
The new Minister of Education, A. S. Shishkov, repeatedly appealed to Alexander I about bringing V. Popov to court. Despite his supportive attitude towards V. Popov, Alexander I finally ordered to investigate V. Popov’s case in court along with other persons involved in the Gosner case. The court of the Governing Senate, due to disagreements, referred to the Council of State for consideration, where opinions differed; Alexander I approved the opinion for the justification of V. Popov [4] . In particular, I. A. Muravyov-Apostol spoke in defense of V. Popov [5] .
V. M. Popov was jealous of religion. Since 1821, he, along with Prince Golitsyn, attended secret meetings with E.F. Tatarinova , who transferred to Khlystyism; along with Tatarinova and the Buxgeven brothers, V. Popov was distinguished by a "spirit of divination"; became one of the most fanatical followers of Tatarinova, and forced his daughters to go to the delights of Tatarinova. His middle daughter was disgusted with joys and was often tormented by his father because of this. Rumors about these tortures came to the attention of the police, and a search conducted in 1837 entailed the destruction of Tatarinova’s spiritual union and her expulsion from St. Petersburg to the Kaminsky monastery (Tver province). Her accomplices were deported to different monasteries, V. M. Popov - to the Zilanty monastery of the Kazan province.
While in the monastery, V. M. Popov through c. Protasova applied for permission not to live in a monastery, but in a city with his daughters - the application was not granted. After his death, each daughter was assigned 1000 rubles each. a year before marriage; the youngest was placed in the Society of Noble Maidens by His Majesty's boarder, the middle and oldest were transferred to the special care of the main supervisor of the capital's educational homes.
Reviews
Contemporaries portrayed V. Popov as a fanatical, narrow-minded and poorly educated man. Voeikov in his satire "House of Crazy People" makes V. Popov himself say to himself:
Though without book teaching |
Another contemporary described V. Popov as follows: “It was a small, impassable (Schulternlose) figure with a meaningless pitic expression on his face. When he needed to mention in his report to the Committee how many Bibles and gospels were distributed in the spine or binding, he was not content with a business message, but with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, he added: “Your deeds are wonderful, Lord!”
Selected Works
- Popov V.I. The journey of two members of the Russian Bible Society in the Ostsee gubernias in 1816: [In letters]. - SPb .: type. I. Ioannesova, 1916 .-- 44 p.
Notes
- ↑ Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and Public Education // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Members of the committee were also: A.F. Labzin , Archbishop Michael and Seraphim, and Archimandrite Filaret.
- ↑ Geist des Lebens und der Lehre Jesu Christi: Betrachtungen und Bemerkungen über das ganze Neue Testament. - Bd. 1: Mathäus und Marcus.
- ↑ Y. Kondakov, “The Gossner Affair” (1824-1827) // Liberal and conservative trends in religious movements in Russia in the first quarter of the 19th century. - SPb. , 2005.
- ↑ Ivan Matveevich Muravyov-Apostol . Diplomats of the Russian Empire. Date of treatment August 18, 2013. Archived August 31, 2013.
Links
- An. Yelnitsky. Popov, Vasily Mikhailovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes / Under the supervision of A. A. Polovtsev, Chairman of the Imperial Russian Historical Society. - SPb. , 1905. - T. 14: Smelters - Primo. - S. 531-534.
- Danilevsky R. Yu. Popov Vasily Mikhailovich // Dictionary of the Russian language of the XVIII century / Otv. ed. A.M. Panchenko. - M .: Institute of Russian Literature and Language, 1988-1999.