Stepanov, Filipp Petrovich

Born July 3, 1857 . The son of the Russian general Tsarsko-rural commandant Stepanov, Pyotr Aleksandrovich , grandson of Russian writer, the first governor of the Yenisei province , the governor of the Saratov province , local historian Stepanov, Alexander Petrovich , nephew of Russian cartoonist Stepanov, Nikolai Alexandrovich . Stepanov’s elder brother, Stepanov, Mikhail Petrovich , a participant in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–7878 , was part of the Ruschuksky detachment. In 1882, he became one of the founding members of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society , secretary (1882-1889) of the society headed by Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. On August 13, 1876, Philip - the camera-page . According to the first category, he was promoted to the senior cornets of the 12th Alexandra regiment of hussars . Together with the regiment he participated in the affairs of the Ruschuksky detachment during the Russian-Turkish war, and later was awarded the Order of St. Anne of the 4th degree.

After the end of the campaign, Philip Petrovich was transferred by cornet to His Majesty's Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment with seniority from the date of production. In 1880, Philip entered the Nikolaev Academy of Engineering, after completing a course in which he was renamed military captain engineers and assigned to Warsaw to be the headquarters of the Guard for the construction of forts on the left bank of the Vistula River. In Warsaw, Filipp Petrovich served until 1893 and at that time was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree. In May 1890, Philip retired and entered as a full-time engineer at the Ministry of Railways, with the appointment of assistant chief of the station on the Polesye railways (at Rovno station).

In January 1891 he was transferred to the post of head of the Samara-Zlatoust railway, first to the Minyar station, and then in 1892 to the Ufa station. In November 1893 he was transferred to the same position on the Moscow-Kiev railway, first to the Mtsensk station, and in 1895 to the Oryol station. On January 1, 1895, he was appointed to consist of the head of the 6th section of the track service of the Moscow-Kursk railway at Oryol station.

According to Stepanov, in 1895 Alexei Nikolayevich Sukhotin, the leader of the nobility of Chernsky Uezd (later Stavropol Vice-Governor) Sukhotin, who lived in his estate Medvedki (Medvezhka) two versts from Cherni, passed him the Protocols of the Sion of Sages.

From the testimony of Philip Petrovich

In 1895, my neighbor on the estate of the Tula province retired Major Alexei Nikolaevich Sukhotin handed me a handwritten copy of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. He told me that one of his friends, a lady (who did not name her for me), who lived in Paris , found them with her boyfriend (it seems from Jews), and secretly transferred them from him before leaving Paris, and brought this translation , in one copy, to Russia and transferred this copy to him - Sukhotin.

At first I printed it in one hundred copies on a hectograph , but this edition turned out to be difficult to read and I decided to print it in any printing house, without specifying the time, city or printing house; Arkady Ippolitovich Kellepovsky, then an official on special assignments under Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich , helped me to do this; he let them print the Provincial Printing House; it was in 1897 . S. A. Nilus reprinted these protocols completely in his essay, with his comments. ^[4] .

Currently, this document is stored in the archives of Holy Trinity Monastery ( Jordanville , USA ). There are no actual confirmations of the words of Stepanov, the publications mentioned by him have not yet been found. Stepanov's statement is considered one of the important documents on the history of the protocols by both supporters of authenticity and critics ^[3] .

In November 1897, Stepanov brought the protocols to Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna , the sister of the wife of Nicholas II . ^[5] . Princess V.F. Golitsyna, recalling what she had heard from her father, argued that the manuscript of the “Protocols of Zion”, received by her father from Sukhotin, was in Russian; that the first edition, on the rights of a manuscript, without specifying the printing press where it was printed, was also in Russian; that, probably, the manuscript received by her father was the original manuscript that Sukhotin received from an anonymous lady, and it is not known whether it was previously translated into Russian from another language; that S. A. Nilus received from her father the same Russian manuscript, which her father had previously received from Sukhotin. ^[6] .

In 1901 he took part in the transformation of the school into the higher school of church singing ^[7] . From 1906 to 1917, the Prosecutor of the Synodal Office (Moscow, 1906-1917), the director of the Synodal School and the Synodal Choir. On June 17, 1907, Stepanov was appointed an observer at the parish schools ^[8] . In the school Stepanov received the nickname Phil ^[9] . On July 13, 1908, he took part in the consecration of the new church on the Solovetsky Islands ^[10] . In 1910, by the highest order, he joined the executive committee for the repair and restoration of the Great Moscow Assumption Cathedral ^[11] . In the spring of 1910, a robbery, unheard of audacity, was committed in the Kremlin in the Assumption Cathedral. ^[12] . Stepanov in the wake of the robbery wrote a report:

From 1884, servants (except for the protopresbyter) were no longer subordinate to the office, but to the Metropolitan of Moscow, who, although he still sends all affairs to the office, but it is natural that its members, without recognizing the right to decide such cases, provide the decisive voice of Metropolitan, as not a mediocre chief, and such a duality of the authorities can not but affect the behavior of the conciliar servants who do not feel a single direct authority over themselves. ^[13]

In the same year, in 1910, under the personal order of Emperor Nicholas II, a synodal commission on church singing was set up under the auspices of Stepanov. ^] . So, in 1911, together with Kastalsky Alexander Dmitrievich Stepanov, a teacher at the Sinoid School, went on foreign tours in Europe ^[15] . ^On February 23, 1914, he participated in the first meeting on the case of 25 Imyaslavs subject to trial by the Moscow Synodal office ^[16] . I met the February Revolution with joy when speaking to my students, he said:

The February revolution is just the beginning, there are many important historical events ahead of us, and we all must be prepared for the trials and labor. ^[9] .

However, soon his business went badly and after the October Revolution, Filipp Petrovich moved to Sochi to composer and conductor Ivan Aleksandrovich Shmelev, who had lived in Sochi since 1901 and taught music there. Leaving Petersburg, he asked his friends to write to him in the name of Shmelev. For some time he lived in his home, together they put a children's opera ^[9] . At the beginning of 1920, he moved to Yugoslavia. He died in Belgrade on January 7, 1933 ^[17] .

Wife - Nadezhda Ivanovna, nee Riedel (1865-?).

• Children:
  • Vera (May 10, 1885 - March 10, 1954), was married to Prince Vladimir Vladimirovich Golitsyn (1887-1974)
    • Philip Petrovich's great-grandson - Prince Vladimir Kirillovich Golitsyn (1942–2018) was the headman of the Znamensky Synodal Cathedral in New York ^[18]
  • Nikolay (1886–1981) is a writer and publicist, public figure of the right direction, author of books on the Theory of the Masonic Conspiracy.
  • Marina (1887–1931?) ^[19] ;
  • Peter (1891—?).

• Report of the Prosecutor of the Synodal Office F. P. Stepanov on the establishment of the iconographic chamber at the Donskoy Monastery named after Seleznev, on the day of the consecration of the chamber on November 22, 1908: summary. sketch of the appearance of iconography. Chambers St. Petersburg: Synod. type., 1908.

• Stepanov Filipp Petrovich // List of civilian ranks of the fourth class. Corrected on March 1, 1916. Part one. - Petrograd: Publication of the inspection department of His Own Imperial Majesty's office . Senate printing house, 1916. - p. 1452.
• Freiman, O. R. Pazhy for 185 years: biographies and portraits of former pages from 1711 to 1896 / collected and published by O. R. von Freiman. - Friedrichsgamn: Type. Aq Islands, 1894-1897. - p. 688. - 952 p.
• Unforgotten graves. Russian foreign countries: obituaries 1917–1997 in 6 volumes. Volume 6. Book 2. Scr — F. M .: "Pashkov House", 1999. - ISBN 5-7510-0169-9 . P. 183
• S. V. Smolensky and his correspondents: correspondence with S. S. Volkova and others, letters to S. V. Smolensky by various individuals
• Orthodox Moscow in 1917-1921: a collection of documents and materials page 688
• Red archive, Volumes 60-62 page 128
• Zabelynsky scientific reading: Historical Museum — Encyclopedia of National History and Culture, Volume 121 p. 505
• The Crown of Thorns of Russia: The Mystery of the Protocols of Zion page 199
• Oleg Anatolyevich Platonov The Mystery of the Protocols of Zion page 201
• Synodal Choir and School of Church Singing: Concerts, Periodicals, Programs, Volume 2, Part 2

• History of the Zion Protocols.
• BERNS 'CASE OF "SIONA SAGES"
• Michael Hagemeister In Search of Evidence of the Origin of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”: a publication that disappeared from the Lenin Library
• Brother biography
• Son's biography

• The Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion
• John Shelton Curtiss An appraisal of the Protocols of Zion 1942
• Éditions RISS, 1931 - Waters flowing eastward