Sholp, Evgeny Gustavovich

Ukrainian, Orthodox. He graduated from the Oryol Military School (1881), Mikhailovsky Artillery School (1884) and the Military Law Academy . From 1894 to 1899 he served as an artillery officer.

He moved to Siberia, where he became a magistrate in Krasnoyarsk , later a member of the Krasnoyarsk District Court. In this capacity, he considered up to 20 cases every day, and up to 250 cases every month ^[1] .

In 1899–1900 he assisted in the organization of a shelter for the poor on the resort lake Shira (Yenisei province) ^[2] . He headed the Krasnoyarsk Society of Sobriety, was a member of the leadership of the Literacy Society, collaborated with the commission on the needs of the agricultural industry; engaged in the study of the resettlement case. It was printed in the magazines "Eastern Review" ( Irkutsk ) and "Siberia" ( St. Petersburg ). He was elected a vowel of the Krasnoyarsk City Council. In 1902, being in this capacity, as part of the work of the county and provincial committees of the Special Meeting on the needs of the agricultural industry, he prepared a bill on the development of zemstvos in Siberia. Scholp speaking for the three-territorial zemstvo and proposed the establishment of volost Zemstvo structures, replacing the volost boards existing at that time ^[3] .

Since 1903 a member of the Uman district court. He organized the Literacy Society in Uman , the chairman of the city library and the branch of the Red Cross. Chairman of the Uman Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party, later - a member of its Kiev provincial committee.

April 21, 1906 elected to the State Duma I convocation of the total composition of the electors of the Kiev provincial electoral assembly. He entered the Constitutional Democratic faction and the Ukrainian community . Member of the Commission on the study of unlawful actions of officials, the Commission for Civil Equality and the budget commission. Signed the bill "On Civil Equality". Rapporteur of the Commission on the illegal actions of the administration. He spoke in a debate on the agrarian question, on the Mandate, on food aid to the population. In one of his speeches, he drew attention to the fact that “in the Western Territory, all attempts by the peasants to get in touch with the deputies were intensely persecuted” ^[4] . Entered into the so-called "inquiry" commission ^[4] . On 13 (26) June, he made a report on the discussion of the “Cossack question”, informed the members of the State Duma of the conclusion of the commission that considered application No. 103 about the request for illegal mobilization of 2nd and 3rd order regiments and their use for the internal police service. In total, 40 Cossack regiments and 50 individual Cossack hundreds were mobilized, that is, even if they were reduced to regiments, 8 regiments, at a minimum. Of the mobilized 24 Don regiments, only 4 fought with the Japanese, the other 20 with their own ^[5] .

July 10, 1906 in the city of Vyborg signed the " Vyborg Appeal " and was convicted under Art. 129, part 1, pp. 51 and 3 of the Criminal Code ^[6] , sentenced to 3 months in prison and deprived of the right to be elected. He did not attend the process of December 12-18, 1907, as he was ill ^[7] .

In 1908, the attorney of the Odessa Court of Justice, while residing in Kiev ^[8] .

In 1915, at the June conference of the cadet party, Sholp warned that "the Russian liberation movement is threatened with such a phenomenon as has never happened before: until now, the broad masses of the people were not yet Jewish-phobic." However, now the five-million Russian army has become a source of anti-Jewish phobia, and Sholp feared that “there will be no village where this infection would not have been brought” ^[9] .

He died in 1916.

Daughter - Alexandra E. Sholp (1905–1989) musicologist

Possible relatives:

Brother - Arkady Gustavovich Sholp, Head of the Traffic Services of the Privislyanskaya Railway in Warsaw ^[10]

Brother - Alexander Gustavovich Sholp (1857–1938), major general, member of the White movement ^[11] .

Sister - Olga Gustavovna Sholp, head of the Sholp gymnasium in Odessa ^[12] .

• Sholp EG. The needs of the agricultural industry of the Yenisei province in comparison with the provinces of the Zemstvo. - Krasnoyarsk: Typ-lit. M. Ya. Kokhanovskaya, 1903. Part 1: Common needs, Part 2: Special needs. - 1903. - [155] c.
• Sholp Eug. Moscow impressions // Wreath on the grave of Sergei Andreevich Muromtsev / Under the editorship: V.P. Obninsky. - M .: Tipo-lit. t-va I. N. Kushnerev and Co., 1910. c. 69-72
• Sholp EG. Fragments of memories about V. M. Garshin // Contemporaries about V. M. Garshin: memoirs. - Saratov: Publishing House of the University, 1977. - 251 p.

• State Duma of the Russian Empire: 1906-1917. B. Yu. Ivanov, A. A. Komzolov, I. S. Ryakhovskaya. Moscow. ROSSPEN. 2008. p. 705.
• Boiyovich M.M. Members of the State Duma (Portraits and Biographies). First convocation. M .: Type. Partnership I. D. Sytin. 1906 p. 137.
• First State Duma. Alphabetical list and detailed biographies and characteristics of members of the State Duma. - M .: Type. Partnership I. D. Sytin, 1906. - 175 p.
• State Duma of the first draft. Portraits, brief biographies and characteristics of the deputies. - Moscow: Renaissance, 1906. C. 34.
• Russian State Historical Archive] Fund 1278. Inventory 1 (1st convocation). Case 122. Sheet 14; Fund 1327. Inventory 1. 1905. Case 141. Sheet 77-77 turnover.