Alekseev, Andrey Ivanovich

Andrei Ivanovich Alekseev was born on December 15 (December 2, old), 1897 in St. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire.

A. I. Alekseev - illegitimate son of the head of an ancient princely family; and until 1911, under the guidance of his father, he received home noble education.

In 1910, the hereditary prince - the father of A.I. Alekseev - officially recognized Andrei Alekseev as his son.

In 1911, the intrafamily circumstances forced Prince Andrei to leave his parental home, and since that time, due to the changed domestic, family, and conditions, Andrei Ivanovich Alekseev began to provide his own life with personal labor. From now on, until the last years of his life, Andrei Ivanovich Alekseev was forced to carefully hide his noble origin from everyone.

A.I. Alekseev begins his career as a turner student (then as a turner) at the Ayvaz factory, which was located on Vasilyevsky Island (4 Volkhovsky Lane) in St. Petersburg.

A.I. Alekseev at the Aivaz plant was immediately actively involved in revolutionary activities on the political platform of the Bolshevik party, and a year later, in November 1912, he was accepted by the Bolshevik organization of the plant into the party of the RSDLP (b); party pseudonym A. I. Alekseev - "Hryvnia".

From the fall of 1912 to October 1917, A. I. Alekseev conducted a multifaceted underground party - RSDLP (b) - both in the capital of the Russian Empire and in the army; A.I. Alekseev was called up for active military service in the spring of 1916 as an ordinary 180th reserve infantry regiment, this regiment was stationed in the Russian capital until the spring of 1917.

A. I. Alekseev participant in the February Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd.

Since the spring of 1917, A.I. Alekseev on the southwestern front of the First World War, he is a private of the 199th Kronstadt Regiment of the 11th Army.

In June 1917, A. I. Alekseev took part in the I Congress of Soviets and the All-Russian Conference of Military Organizations of the RSDLP (b) in Petrograd.

In December 1917, at the Army Congress, Andrei Ivanovich Alekseev, the Bolsheviks of the 11th Army, was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the II convocation; and with the acquired political powers, A. I. Alekseev again arrives in Petrograd.

At the request of V.I. Lenin and with a mandate from the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, at the end of December 1917, A.I. Alekseev leaves Petrograd for the city of Petrozavodsk with the aim of establishing Soviet power in the Olonets province and eliminating the threat of separation of Karelia from Soviet Russia (course towards the separation of Karelia from Russia at that time the Executive Committee of the Olonets Provincial Council of Peasant, Workers 'and Soldiers' Deputies was chaired by the Menshevik V. Kujiev).

In the same place, in Petrozavodsk, in parallel with party and state work, A. I. Alekseev organized a mobile folk theater.

In the fall of 1918, when Soviet power was established both in Petrozavodsk and in the localities, and the threat of separation of Karelia from Soviet Russia was eliminated, A. I. Alekseev arrived in Moscow with a report to V. I. Lenin and Y. M. Sverdlov on the implementation party instructions.

In November 1918, A.I. Alekseev was sent by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to the Red Army at the disposal of the Political Department of the Southern Front, then to the 40th Bogucharovsky Division as an instructor in the campaign department.

As an instructor in the propaganda department of the 40th Bogucharovskaya Division, A. I. Alekseev organized an amateur army theater and directed it; this theater with scenic performances of an agitational and educational nature performed before the soldiers and the population.

In August 1920, A.I. Alekseev was demobilized as a senior political officer, and was sent by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee to Petrograd, where A.I. Alekseev was registered in the city Union of Art Workers (Rabis) .

Since the beginning of the 1920s, A. I. Alekseev conducted energetic cultural and educational activities among workers and employees in Petrograd-Leningrad: he founded factory and factory clubs, and with them amateur art groups, created educational exhibitions in the Houses of Culture, arranged various thematic lectures. A.I. Alekseev is the author and organizer of many mass festive theatrical urban performances.

At the same time, and in parallel with the cultural work, A. I. Alekseev was a student of various scientific and practical special courses on the organization of club art and theater activities.

From the 20s to the end of his life, A.I. Alekseev constantly, systematically raised his qualifications, was engaged in self-education. In the years 1925-1927 A.I. Alekseev Chairman of the Leningrad City Committee of Club Leaders.

In 1928, A.I. Alekseev organized a theater at the Friend of Children (ODD) and headed it as director and artistic director.

Organized by A.I. Alekseev, the Theater of Traffic Police was a unique educational institution. Unlike the pedagogical concept of A.S. Makarenko, who at the same time created labor colonies in order to educate juvenile offenders, Andrei Ivanovich Alekseev independently developed a completely special, unique in the country pedagogical method, the purpose of which was made through art and familiarization to multinational centuries-old cultural traditions, comprehensive education of Soviet youth.

Pupils of A.I. Alekseev - former homeless children, amateur young artists of the theater of children’s theater - not only mastered the school curriculum under the guidance of teachers, but also through active creative, scenic activities led and directed by A.I. Alekseev, became involved in literary and theatrical art art, to the rich cultural heritage of the past, and thus were brought up as individuals, as citizens of a new, socialist society. A.I. Alekseev did not create a colony for former juvenile delinquents in the SDD, but a genuine teenage and youth theater, which carried out its creative (and economic) activities under the conditions of a self-governing community united by one goal (at that time it was said - communes).

Under the direction of A.I. Alekseev, amateur artists for several years moved completely freely with theatrical performances in Leningrad, giving performances on its various small stages, and toured in the summer in the Leningrad Region.

The ODD theater under the direction of A. I. Alekseev was not only a theatrical creative collective, but also a youth athletic team.

Pupils of A.I. Alekseev, together with the teaching staff during the summer holidays, independently, with household utensils and theatrical requisites, made trekking transitions from village to village, sometimes stopping for a few days on the river or lake for sporting and gymnastic events and rehearsals.

And not a single pupil of A.I. Alekseev from the collective of the theater of the DDD did not run away, did not return to his former homeless life. Not a single pupil of the Theater of Traffic Police has betrayed the pedagogical ideas of Andrei Ivanovich Alekseev.

Many pupils of A. I. Alekseev, having subsequently received a professional education and labor specialty, having found families, did not stop maintaining good, appreciative relations with their Teacher until the end of his days.

Since 1932, A.I. Alekseev again raised his professional qualifications at the Communist Academy at the Central Executive Committee of the USSR (Leningrad Branch).

Since 1935, A. I. Alekseev has served in the Leningrad Regional Council of Trade Unions (LOSPS) as a cult inspector of amateur performances.

In the summer of 1941, immediately after the declaration of World War II, A. I. Alekseev volunteered to go to the front. Throughout the war A.I. Alekseev (at the beginning of the war - senior political instructor, since 1943 - major) commanded 716 separate combat engineer battalion, which was subordinate to the NKVD.

Since the beginning of the war, the battalion under the command of A. I. Alekseev was stationed on the Leningrad, Volkhov and North-Western fronts. Andrei Ivanovich Alekseev with the soldiers of his battalion at this time performs a number of important military and government tasks.

Since 1943, the battalion of A. I. Alekseev in Kazakhstan in the city of Guryev (now Atyrau ); there, the soldiers of the battalion under the command of A. I. Alekseev built a defense plant. The battalion of A.I. Alekseev at that time numbered 2,000 fighters and 4,000 captured Italians.

In the city of Guryev, A. I. Alekseev organizes an amateur Russian-Kazakh theater and, as an artistic director, leads it.

At the very end of the war, 716, a separate engineer battalion under the command of A. I. Alekseev, with a government mission, was stationed in Georgia.

In 1946, A.I. Alekseev was demobilized from the army, in the same year he returned to Leningrad.

From 1947 until his retirement, A. I. Alekseev was the artistic director of amateur art groups in the Palace of Culture. A.M. Gorky (Leningrad, Stachek Square, 4).

Created under the artistic direction of A. I. Alekseev, the ballet (adult) troupe of the Palace of Culture. A.M. Gorky in the 1950s was the best unprofessional theater in the Soviet Union, in those years she was the only amateur ballet troupe in the country who performed with a classical repertoire and based on the canons of classical choreographic art.

A.I. Alekseev - laureate of the All-Union Festival of amateur performances, held in Moscow in 1951.

Since 1958, A. I. Alekseev is a personal pensioner of national importance.

Being retired, A. I. Alekseev conducts an active educational and pedagogical activity: he constantly speaks to soldiers, working and studying youth with historical and educational lectures, continues to participate as much as possible in the creative life of the Palace of Culture named after A. Gorky, writes a memoir.

A.I. Alekseev died on January 21, 1980. Andrei Ivanovich Alekseev was buried in Leningrad at the Shuvalovsky cemetery .

A. I. Alekseev was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution and many medals.

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• Alekseev A. I. Resolution of the Bolsheviks // Svetlana Newspaper / Organ of the Party Committee, Trade Union Committee, Komsomol Committee and the Directorate of the Svetlana Electronic Instrument Making Association of Leningrad, 1977. - April 6. - No. 14 (4104 - 4109). - S. 6-7.
• Alekseev A.I. These years cannot be forgotten. - L., 1981.

• Soviet Karelia // Essays on Party, Soviet and Cultural Construction of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic / Ed. G.S. Rovio et al. - M.-L .: Lensotsekgiz, 1933. - S. 36-73.
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• The history of our region // Textbook for schools of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. - Petrozavodsk, 1966. - S. 133-135.
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• Archive of the St. Petersburg Exaltation of the Cross Exaltation, in the Yamskaya Church, for 1897.
• Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA).
• Russian State Military Archive (RGVA).
• Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI).
• State Museum of the Political History of Russia (Kshesinskaya Mansion in St. Petersburg).
• Political and state archives of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Olonets province).
• Archive of the Leningrad Palace of Culture. A. M. Gorky.