Oldenburg, Sergey Sergeevich

He graduated from the law faculty of Moscow University . He worked as an official of the Ministry of Finance of Russia.

Unlike his father, who had liberal political views, he adhered to right-wing views from a young age, was close to the Soyuz October 17 party , and sympathized with P. A. Stolypin , Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

In 1918 he left for Crimea , where he joined the White Movement . In the fall of 1920, General Baron P.N. Wrangel was unable to evacuate with the Russian Army due to the fact that he was ill with typhus . Having recovered, with fake documents he got from the Crimea to Petrograd , where he met with his father, who helped him emigrate. He crossed the border with Finland , then reached France .

He lived in exile in Finland , Germany and France ( Paris ), was a political associate of P. B. Struve , one of the leading authors of right-wing emigrant publications: the Russian Thought magazine, the Vozrozhdenie, Rossiya, Russia and Slavs newspapers . He was a member of the Paris Union for the Liberation and Restoration of the Homeland ^[3] . He was sympathetic to the right French writer and politician C. Morras . He was a scholar, a connoisseur of history. He lived in poverty in exile.

Family

Father - Sergey Fedorovich Oldenburg ( 1863 - 1934 ), academician (1900), orientalist, permanent secretary of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (since 1904), Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1917), Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1925-1929), Minister of Education (July — September 1917). One of the founders of the domestic Indological school ^[3] .

Mother - Alexandra Pavlovna Oldenburg (nee Timofeeva)

Uncle - Fyodor Fyodorovich Oldenburg (1861-1914), a Russian teacher and public figure.

Wife - Ada Dmitrievna, in 1925 left Russia for her husband in Paris. The family had five children. One of the daughters, Zoya Oldenburg, is a famous French writer and historian.

The Supreme Monarchical Council instructed S. S. Oldenburg to write the history of the reign of Emperor Nicholas II , which was published in 1939 (Volume 1) and 1949 (Volume 2).

The work he wrote is apologetic. The author substantiates that the revolution interrupted the successful progressive economic development of Russia: “in the twentieth year of the reign of Emperor Nicholas II, Russia reached an unprecedented level of material prosperity in it”.

S. S. Oldenburg was able to carry out such a scientific study, having access to unique documents - copies of genuine historical acts of the Russian Empire at the Russian Embassy in Paris ^[4] on Grenelle Street, which, as a precaution, long before the First World War , began to be sent to storage at the Russian embassy in Paris. Prior to being recognized by the French government of the USSR, the Russian Embassy was managed by V.A.

The manuscript, even during the lifetime of the author, was delivered at the beginning of 1940 to Belgrade, however, the preparation of the manuscript for publication began only after the death of Sergey Sergeyevich. In 1941, in connection with the outbreak of hostilities of Germany against Yugoslavia , only a few copies remained of the first circulation of the book ^[3] .

According to the first publisher of this capital work, Yu. K. Meyer, these circumstances enabled Professor S. S. Oldenburg to create an objective investigation of the corresponding historical period of the Russian State. The archival documents that he used in his work on “The Reign of Emperor Nicholas II” did not fall into the hands of the Bolsheviks , as they were promptly sent to Stanford University, USA in Palo Alto, California ^[4] .

In modern Russia, S. S. Oldenburg's book has withstood a number of reprints.

According to a member of the Supreme Monarchist Council ^[5] Colonel A. S. Gershelman , S. S. Oldenburg -

... A talented writer who speaks several languages, smart and deeply decent ... ^[6]

Led by the doctor of historical sciences, professor A. D. Kirillov, the Center for Contemporary Regional Political History “Ural Center B. N. Yeltsin” ^[7] :

A modest official on the Ministry of Finance of Russia, the son of an academician and Minister of Culture, Sergey Sergeyevich Oldenburg (1888-1940) did not correspond to the magnificent laurels of the parent. But, being in exile, he became a serious and deep historian, a temperamental publicist, taking conservative positions, fiercely upholding the national idea. Thus, he accomplished his life’s feat ... Two-volume work, which has become a classic study of the history of Russia in the late XIX - early XX centuries, creates a complete portrait of a lively and powerful Power in all the variety of economic, political, social ...

... An example is the work of a prominent historian of Russian emigration, S. S. Oldenburg “The reign of Emperor Nicholas II” 4. This book has survived several editions not only abroad, but also in Russia in the post-Soviet period. 5. The book of Oldenburg covers the period 1894-1917. - From the accession to the throne of Emperor Nicholas II to his abdication in February 1917.
The basis for the book of Oldenburg was the memoirs of contemporaries of events (A.N. Kuropatkina, S.Yu. Witte), published materials of the Provisional Extraordinary Investigation Commission (VChSK) of the Provisional Government and the correspondence of Nicholas II with various persons (mother, Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna, wife, Empress Alexandra Fedorovna, ministers), transcripts of meetings of the State Duma. Also, Oldenburg used periodicals from the reign of Nicholas II as a source.

- Scientific modern monograph " The struggle of groups in the court environment of Nicholas II"

• Election of people's representatives . - PG: Light and freedom, 1917. - 30 p. ^[eight]
• The reign of Emperor Nicholas II .: V.1 .: In 2 hours - Part 1 .: Autocratic rule (1894-1904); Part 2 .: Tipping years (1904-1907) . - Belgrade: Distribution Island Rus. nat. and patriot. lit., 1939. - 389 p.

Reprints

• “The reign of Emperor Nicholas II” , Munich, 1949
• The Reign of Emperor Nicholas II , Washington, 1981
• "The reign of Emperor Nicholas II . " Foreword by Yu. K. Meyer - St. Petersburg: Petropol, 1991. - 672 p. ISBN 5-88560-088-0 Reproduction of a publication: Washington, 1981 - circulation of 50,000 copies.
• “The reign of Emperor Nicholas II” / Reproduction of a publication: Belgrade, Publication of the Society for the Distribution of Russian National and Patriotic Literature, 1939. - M .: Phoenix, 1992. - Circulation 50,000 copies.
  • t. 1, 382 pp. - ISBN 5-7652-0006-0 , ISBN 5-7652-0007-9
  • t. 2, 256 pp. - ISBN 5-7652-0008-7
• "The reign of Emperor Nicholas II . " - M .: "Terra", 1992. - 640 pp. - ISBN 5-85255-122-8 - circulation of 30,000 copies.
• "The reign of Emperor Nicholas II . " - M .: "Phoenix", 1998. - 576 pp. - ISBN 5-222-00262-4 - circulation of 10,000 copies.
• "The reign of Nicholas II." - AST, Astrel, 2003. - 768 pages. - (Historical Library) - ISBN 5-17-017715-1 , ISBN 5-271-06346-1 - circulation of 5000 copies.
• "Nicholas II . " - M .: Eksmo, 2003. - 608 pp. - (History in Persons and Facts. Political Biographies) - ISBN 5-699-03056-5 - 4100 copies.
• "The reign of Emperor Nicholas II . " - M .: Dar, 2006. - 800 pp. - ISBN 5-485-00083-5 - circulation of 5000 copies.
• "The Reign of Emperor Nicholas II" in 2 volumes - N. Novgorod: The Black Hundred, 2013 - ISBN 978-5-85480-026-6 - circulation of 1500 copies.
  • t. 1, 448 pp. - ISBN 978-5-85480-027-3
  • t. 2, 448 pp. - ISBN 978-5-85480-028-0
• “ The Reign of Emperor Nicholas II ” in 2 volumes - N. Novgorod: “The Black Hundred”, 2017 - circulation of 1000 copies.
  • t. 1, 432 pp. - ISBN 978-5-00028-135-2
  • t. 2, 488 pp. - ISBN 978-5-00028-137-6

• Shaniavsky A.I. A brief biography of Sergey Sergeevich Oldenburg (1888-1940) // The scientific journal "Young Scientist". - Kazan, 2016. - No. 27 (131) . - S. 297-302 . - ISSN 2072-0297 .
• Oldenburg S. S. The reign of Emperor Nicholas II:

  Volume I, part one and two . Belgrade, 1939.

  volume II, part three and four . Munich, 1949.

• Kaganovich B. S. Beginning of the tragedy (Academy of Sciences in the 1920s based on the materials of the archive of S. F. Oldenburg) // Zvezda magazine . - St. Petersburg, 1994. - No. 12 . - S. 124 .
• Some results of the reign of Nicholas II
• Yu. K. Meyer Foreword // Oldenburg S. S. The reign of Emperor Nicholas II - St. Petersburg: "Petropol", 1991. - 672 p. ISBN 5-88560-088-0 Reproduction of a publication: Washington, 1981
• Gershelman A.S. Faithful Guard. M .: NP "Posev", 2008 ISBN 978-5-85824-179-9