Matvey Dmitrievich Shishkin (1886-1962) - Russian political and public figure, deputy of the Constituent Assembly , activist of the international cooperative movement.
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| Date of Birth | April 16, 1886 |
| Place of Birth | with. Vyazemy, Zvenigorod district , Moscow province |
| Date of death | January 12, 1962 (75 years old) |
| Place of death | Stockholm |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  the USSR  Sweden |
| Occupation | politician and public figure |
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Biography
Tver Karelian . Born into a peasant family.
He graduated from the Theological College at the Savin Monastery of the Zvenigorod County of Moscow Province, five classes of the Bethany Theological Seminary, and in 1915 - the Faculty of Law of Moscow University . Member of the RSDLP since 1907, Menshevik-internationalist. While studying at the seminary during the first Russian revolution, he became a participant and organizer of the All-Russian Seminar Congress in Sergiev Posad, the organizer of the strike at Bethany Seminary.
While studying at the university, he worked in the Moscow provincial zemstvo as a traveling statistician.
He was fond of amateur theater, participated in drama circles in Moscow and Tula. He was a member of the board of the Golitsyn music and drama circle, secretary of the commission on rural theater at the All-Russian Union of Stage Figures.
He participated in the cooperative and zemstvo movement as an instructor of the Moscow Union of Consumer Societies on cultural and educational work (1913), a participant in the Kharkov Congress on Reasonable Entertainment, the All-Russian All-Russian Congress in Yaroslavl for out-of-school education, and in the Tver All-Union Cooperative Congress.
Since 1915, he lectured on out-of-school education at public universities.
He is the author of a number of articles in the magazines of the cooperative movement Union of Consumers, Unification, and Tolstovsky Herald. His most famous articles are “Before Spring” (publication of the Golitsin circle), “In troubled waters”, “Staging”, “Fist”, “Thomas Gordeev”, “Theater and consumer societies” (editions of the Moscow Union of Consumer Societies), “People’s Teacher and the folk theater "(publication of Tulunov and Shestakov)," The first steps in organizing a music and drama circle in a consumer society "," Literary evening in a peasant's hut "," Striznevsky people's house "," The chicken is still booming in the egg, " "L. N. Tolstoy in the memory of the peasants of the Golitsinsky circle ”and others.
On October 6, 1915, he was arrested and sent into exile in the Olonets province , in the village of Reboly. He organized a theater in the Karelian language . In the village of Reboly, he staged a play by S. T. Semenov “Corrupted” [1] .
He described the life of the peasants of the village of Reboly, their needs in the article “Unequal Struggle” (magazine “Petrograd Cooperator” No. 44-45 for 1916).
Was transferred to Porosozero . He worked as a clerk (outside the state) for local guardianship of families called up for war. Under the pseudonym Kuzmin published articles on educational issues in the province in the journal “Bulletin of the Olonets Provincial Zemstvo”.
In 1916, in issue 6 of the Petersburg Co-Operator magazine, he published an article entitled “Guardians of the Law,” exposing local police officials involved in smuggling across the border with Finland. The article caused a wide public outcry and M. D. Shishkin was transferred to the village of Varloev Les, Olonets district .
After the February Revolution, he continued to work in the Union of Consumer Societies. He was a member of the Lodeinopolsky peasant congress in May 1917, provincial peasant congresses in May and August 1917 [2] .
In 1917 - a member of the All-Russian Council of Peasant Deputies, the All-Russian Council of Workers' Cooperation.
Secretary of the Council of All-Russian Cooperative Congresses in 1917. [3] [4]
Member of the Executive Committee of the Olonets Provincial Council of Peasant Deputies. In 1917 he was a member of the State Committee for Public Education [5] .
A delegate of the Stockholm Conference of Socialists from the All-Russian Cooperative Union in 1917 [6] .
On December 6, 1917, with the support of the Union of Teachers of the Olonets Province, he was elected to the Constituent Assembly from the Olonets constituency with the largest number of votes (4598) [7] [8] .
Member of the Council of Workers' Cooperation, inspector of the Central Union. In 1918, he was arrested by the authorities of the Olonets province at the request of the military commissariat of the 8th district of the Bezhetsk district on August 30, 1918 on charges of organizing resistance to the decrees of the Council of People's Commissars and dispersal of the Trestinsky volost council [9] , but was released with the support of the central cooperation bodies.
In February 1921, he participated in the First All-Karelian Congress of Soviets as a delegate from the Tver province, where he worked in cooperation bodies after the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly. He criticized the policy of the Bolsheviks .
In 1921 he was again arrested, exiled to Tver , then to the Vologda province.
In 1922 he was expelled to Germany as an “anti-Soviet cooperator” [10] . Since 1924 he lived in Stockholm .
He was a member of the Socialist Party of Sweden .
In the suburbs of Stockholm, Ulstene organized a private theater studio, popular among emigrants and residents of Stockholm [11] [12] [13]
Participated in the international cooperative movement.
Compositions
- From the memories of cooperative and political. - New York, 1960
Notes
- ↑ Databank on the Menshevik project
- ↑ Who should be held in the Constituent Assembly from Olonia. Petrozavodsk. Provincial Printing House. 1917. - p. 4-36.
- ↑ Ivanov A.V. Revolution of 1917 and cooperation
- ↑ Brief review of the activities of the All-Russian Council of Workers' Cooperation, Moscow, 1918
- ↑ History of Karelia
- ↑ Petrozavodsk. 300 years of history. t. 3 - Petrozavodsk: Karelia, 2003 - p. 533-534.
- ↑ Bulletin of the Olonetsogogubsovet. 1917.October 29, December 6.
- ↑ Shishkin Matvey Dmitrievich // Who should be held in the Constituent Assembly from Olonia. - Petrozavodsk, 1917. - S. 23-24
- ↑ Bulletin of the Olonets Provincial Executive Committee of the Councils of Peasant, Worker and Red Army Deputies. 1918. October 5
- ↑ V. G. Makarov, BC Khristoforov passengers of the “philosophical ship” .
- ↑ Unknown Chaliapin
- ↑ Chaliapin evening in Stockholm
- ↑ Fedor Chaliapin: from Kazan to Stockholm
Literature
- Karelia: encyclopedia: in 3 tons / hl. ed. A.F. Titov., Vol. 3: R - Ya. - Petrozavodsk: Publishing House PetroPress, 2011. - ISBN 978-5-8430-0127-8 (vol. 3)