Saladin, Alexey Timofeevich

Alexey Timofeevich Saladin (1876, Moscow - 1918, Ramenskoye ) - Moscow local history writer.

Born on May 19, 1876 in the Moscow Tversko-Yamskaya settlement in a family of immigrants from a peasant environment.

He graduated from Novikovsko-Yamskoye primary school and tried to enter the gymnasium, but did not pass the exam. He began to work as a typesetter in a printing house. In 1896, he graduated from the courses of rural teachers, was sent as a teacher to a rural school, but due to his participation in the “public readings”, he became one of the “unreliable” and was forced to enter the service of the Moscow-Kazan Railway Office as an assistant clerk. For participation in the revolutionary events of 1905, he was arrested, spent a year in Butyrka prison, after which he was exiled to the Rybnoe gubernia.

In 1909 he settled with his family in the village of Ramenskoye, where he got a job as an official at the railway station .

The enthusiasm of local history that emerged in his youth led Saladin to a systematic study of the history of Moscow and its suburbs. His local history articles and essays were published in the magazine "Young Russia". In 1912, he purchased a camera and created a small photo studio "Saladin and K", which specialized in photographing views of Moscow and its environs. they were released photo albums "In the suburbs of Moscow" (1902), "In Moscow" (1910), "Necropolis of Moscow" (1915-1918). Simultaneously with a photograph, Saladin collected materials on the history of the Moscow region and, in particular, Bronnitsky district ; in 1914, the Guidebook on Suburban and Dacha Locations to the Ramenskoe Station of the Moscow-Kazan Railway was published, which included photographs and essays about Izmailovo , Kuskovo , Kuzminki , Simonov and Nikolo-Ugreshsky monasteries.

In 1997, his book “Walks through Moscow cemeteries” ^[1] was published, which survived thanks to the archival scruples of I. A. Belousov , to whom Saladin provided his work for familiarization. I. A. Belousov wrote:

After reading the book, I was amazed at the enormous work done with such love in a very short time: during the summer months of 1915-16. Saladin described each cemetery from the historical side and all the graves of more or less prominent people, detailed the location of the graves, described all the tombstones, monuments, accurately reproduced the inscriptions on the monuments and made the characteristics of the buried. In the descriptions, he apparently gave preference to people literary

- Ryabinin Yu. Not in vain, not by chance ...

He died on July 18, 1918. He was buried in the cemetery in Ramenskoye; the grave was not preserved.