Ershov, Vladimir Arkadievich (revolutionary)

He was born on May 28, 1859 in Kharkov in a family of philistines. Brother - Ershov, Konstantin Arkadevich (1862-1885).

In 1879 he graduated from the Moscow Commercial School. Then he studied at the Moscow Technical School, which he did not graduate from.

In the mid-1880s, he lived in Moscow, taught lessons, drew the attention of the gendarme authorities to relations with his sisters Vera and Eva Sheftel and other politically unreliable persons.

In 1884-1885, he was a member of the central Moscow People's Volunteer Group and was a member of P. N. Lebedev, his comrade in a commercial school who was engaged in propaganda among Moscow workers. At the end of 1884, on behalf of the Moscow People's Food Organization, he negotiated with A.N. Bach . He was arrested on December 2, 1885 and brought to inquest at the Moscow Gendarme Administration in the case of P.N. Lebedev and other People’s Volunteers on charges of possession of banned publications and propaganda among workers. He was detained until May 20, 1886 .

July 16, 1887 was subjected to solitary confinement for 6 months. Upon serving his sentence, from March 5, 1888 he was subordinated to secret surveillance with the prohibition of residence in the capitals and capitals of the provinces. In March 1888 he moved to Tver .

In Tver in 1888-1890 he lived in the same apartment with the supervised V. I. Dmitrieva , whom he married. In 1890, he was brought to inquiry on charges of having links with a revolutionary circle of Russian emigre terrorists organized in Paris . During the inquiry he was under special supervision. At the end of the inquiry, on June 17, 1891, he was subjected to solitary confinement for 6 months, followed by subordination to secret surveillance for a period at the discretion of the Minister of the Interior. He served his sentence in Petersburg solitary confinement from October 26, 1891 to April 14, 1892 . Upon serving his sentence, he was subordinated to secret surveillance with a ban on residence for 3 years, in addition to the capital and provincial capitals, in university cities, in Tver , Nizhny Novgorod , Saratov and Ryazan .

Then he settled with V. I. Dmitrieva in Voronezh , where he settled as a scribe, first in the state chamber, and then in the county zemstvo administration. He left the service in 1899 .

In the late 1890s, he collaborated in local newspapers and was a translator of foreign languages ​​in the editorial office of the newspaper Voronezh Telegraph.

In the early 1900s he lived in Rostov-on-Don , where he was a corrector for the newspaper Donskaya Rech, and then again settled in Voronezh.

In 1902 and 1905 he was abroad. In 1902 he was ransacked and brought to inquiry in the case of the Northern Union.

In 1906-1907 he was secretary of the newspaper Voronezhskoe Slovo. He took a close part in the organization of the Voronezh People’s University, was a member of the board, worked there until the October Revolution in the out-of-school education section.

In 1918-1919 he worked in cooperation. In 1920, he settled in Sochi, where he worked in the statistical office and in the Museum of Local Lore. He was arrested in November 1920, and released the following year.

He died in Sochi on February 28, 1922 .

• Ershov Vladimir Arkadievich // Figures of the revolutionary movement in Russia : in 5 volumes / ed. F. Ya. Kona et al. - M .: All-Union Society of Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers , 1927-1934.