Lavrentiev, Ivan Egorovich

From the peasants of the village of Bolshoi Frolovo, Tetyushsky district, Kazan province. He studied at a public school, then at a city school, but he did not finish the course ^[2] . For 10 years he served as a teacher in a parish village school ^[2] . He was under police surveillance for agitation among the peasants. He was engaged in agriculture and gardening. He shared the program of the All-Russian Peasant Union, but personally did not enter it ^[3] . According to his convictions, to the left of the cadet party ^[4] .

On April 14, 1906 he was elected to the State Duma of the 1st convocation from the congress of commissioners from the volosts of the Kazan province . He was a member of the Labor Group. He signed bills: "On Civil Equality", "33" on the agricultural issue. Member of the editorial board of the newspaper "Peasant Deputy" ^[3] .

On July 10, 1906, in the city of Vyborg, he signed the Vyborg Appeal and was convicted under Art. 129, part 1, paragraphs 51 and 3 of the Criminal Code ^[4] , sentenced to 3 months in prison and deprived of the right to run for any elected office.

After the dissolution of the Duma, he returned to his native village, lived in his father’s house ^[5] . As Lavrentyev himself writes after returning home, “the gendarme carefully drove in twice a week to see if I was at home and if there was any meeting” ^[6] . I had to leave my father without any allotment ^[5] . According to police, during the Duma’s Easter holidays on the night of April 22, 1907, a meeting was held at Lavrentyev’s apartment in Kazan , in which the acting deputy of the 2nd State Duma G. I. Petrukhin ^[7] , who came from the same volost, participated like Lavrentiev. Until November 1907, Lavrentyev was under the secret surveillance of the police. Suspended from teaching at a parochial village school, provided himself with odd jobs, was in poverty ^[3] . He wrote for the "Journal for All" under the pseudonym Eve. Vlasov ^[1] . Held as a peasant essay writer ^[8] . He corresponded with Maxim Gorky ^[9] . He wrote Trudovik Notes for the Monthly Magazine, but the material was not published due to censorship restrictions. At the end of 1916 and the beginning of 1917 (dated by the content of the letter), he asked M. Gorky to financially help with a promise to repay the debt when the “situation is corrected” and the “Notes of the Trudovik” can be published ^[10] .

After the February Revolution of 1917, he joined the Labor People's Socialist Party ^[3] . According to the modern biographer I.E. Lavrentiev and his wife Pelageya Andreevna enthusiastically welcomed the advent of the Soviet regime. "At all rural gatherings, their speeches sounded full of confidence in a happy future." I. E. Lavrentyev worked as a teacher, managed the library and was a freelance correspondent for the Bednota newspaper. P. A. Lavrentieva led evening classes in educational program in her native village, worked in the village council, was a delegate at women's congresses, and lay judge. Vera Figner stayed in the house of the teacher Lavrentiev when she came to her small homeland in the Tetyushsky district. Vera Figner decided to build a new school in Big Frolov for a fee for a book. A confidential correspondence was established between the Lavrentievs family and V. N. Figner ^[11] .

On June 28, 1931, Lavrentyev and his son-in-law F. G. Korolev, a teacher, an employee of the village council, were arrested as "decomposers of collective farms." According to P. A. Lavrentieva, the reason for the arrest is in the criticisms of Ivan Egorovich to the Tetyushinsky chairman of the executive committee and secretary of the district committee in local newspapers. V.N. Figner intervened in the situation, and her appeal to E. Yaroslavsky acted. I.E. Lavrentiev and F.G. Korolev were released. But Ivan Egorovich returned home seriously ill, lying unconscious. In the winter of 1932-1933, he continued to get sick, did not leave his house. In November 1934, the Lavrentievs with their sons Konstantin, Ivan and Leonid moved to their eldest son, Sergei, in Alma-Ata. In September 1936 they returned from Kazakhstan to Bolshoi Frolovo. Ivan Egorovich still suffers from shortness of breath, but gets a job in a library-reading room and school, in the evenings he teaches adults literature and the Russian language. In May 1937, P. A. Lavrentieva wrote to V. N. Figner the last letter from the surviving letters - it says that Ivan Yegorovich has been sick for five weeks, and Pelageya Andreevna goes to him in the library-reading room. “If only Vanya would feel better,” she concludes the letter ^[11] .

November 26, 1937 I.E. Lavrentiev was arrested by the NKVD. On December 13, 1937, he was sentenced by a troop of the NKVD of the TASSR on charges of “organizing a Socialist Revolutionary group” to capital punishment with confiscation of property. Shot on December 17, 1937. He was buried in Spassk . Rehabilitated September 13, 1956 ^[12] .

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• Peasant [I. Lavrentiev] From the village (notes of the peasant) // Northern Notes 1915

Wife - Pelageya Andreyevna , teacher

Children:

Sergei - the eldest son, the head of the hut-reading room, "hut", in the early 30s he moved to Kazan, in the mid-30s - Alma-Ata ^[11]

Nikolay ,

Tatyana ,

Anna is a teacher ^[11] ,

Nina is an employee of kindergarten ^[11]

Konstantin - left for the construction of Trucksib ^[11] ,

Leonid is the youngest son ^[11] .

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