Deryuzhinsky, Vladimir Fedorovich

Born on March 27, 1861 in Smolensk. The son of the provincial prosecutor Fyodor Timofeevich Deryuzhinsky (from the Belarusian gentry) and his wife Ekaterina Nikolaevna, who belonged to the pillar noble family of the Muromtsevs . Second cousin of Vera Bunina (wife of the writer) and Natalia Ilyina (wife of the philosopher Ivan Ilyin ). He married Sofya Antonovna Artsimovich, daughter of Senator A. A. Artsimovich .

He graduated from the Smolensk gymnasium in 1878, and then, in 1883, the law faculty of Moscow University ^[2] with a candidate’s degree and was left at the university for 2 years in the department of police law. In the years 1884-1885, Deryuzhinsky was abroad for scientific purposes, where he studied legal issues at the University of Paris and the University of Heidelberg . In 1884 he translated (together with Mr. Ammon) the book of Maine, " Ancient Law and Custom " ^[2] .

Upon his return to Russia, Deryuzhinsky was appointed privat-docent of Moscow University, where in 1886 he taught students a general course in administrative (police) law , and since 1889 he taught a number of special courses in various sections of the same subject ^[2] .

In 1891, V.F. Deryuzhinsky was appointed acting extraordinary professor of police law at Yuryev ( Derpt ) University (now Tartu University ) ^[2] .

In 1895 he was appointed editor of the Journal of the Ministry of Justice ^[3] and a teacher of police law at the Imperial Alexander Lyceum . Also, during one academic year , he lectured in police law at the Military Law Academy on 96 Moika Embankment ^[2] . In May 1896, he defended a master's thesis at Kharkov University under the title: “Habeas corpus act and its suspension in English law. Essay on the main guarantees of personal freedom in England and their time restrictions” (printed in 1895 in Yuriev) and approved in the master's degree police law.

Since 1897 he edited the journal "Labor Assistance" ^[4] , which was published in the Petrograd State Printing House by the Committee of Guardianship; Empress Alexandra Fedorovna (wife of Nicholas II ) personally supervised the magazine. In May 1917, he resigned, citing a lack of time and proposing to appoint V.N. Polovtsev as the new editor.

In 1900, Deryuzhinsky became a member of the newly created Russian Society for the Protection of Women , chaired by Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna Oldenburgskaya .

From 1902 to 1916 he was a professor of law at St. Petersburg University in the department of police law. In May 1917, Privy Councilor Deryuzhinsky was appointed by the Interim Government as a senator. After the October 1917 coup, Deryuzhinsky’s family was scattered around the world: V. F Deryuzhinsky and his daughter stayed in Soviet Russia, his wife and son Boris settled in Copenhagen , and his son Gleb moved to the New World , where he demonstrated the great talent of the sculptor ^[5] . Having received good fees, he issued papers allowing his father and sister to come to him in the United States of America , but on December 21, 1920, Vladimir Fedorovich Deryuzhinsky died of typhoid fever in the Russian refugee camp Beyuk-Dere (Turkey) and never reached America .

Deryuzhinsky is the author of many articles on jurisprudence in the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron ^{[6] [7]} . His journalistic articles mainly dealt with issues of political history. Most of his works, in addition to the publications listed above, were published in the Legal Journal , Russian Thought , the European Journal , the Journal of the Ministry of Education and the Russian Gazette ^[2] .

• Deryuzhinsky, Vladimir Fedorovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Barinov D.A., Rostovtsev E.A. Deryuzhinsky Vladimir Fedorovich // Biography of St. Petersburg State University