Khrunov, Vladimir Petrovich

Origin

Comes from an untitled kind of Moscow noblemen Khrunov . On the maternal side, his ancestors were the class inspector of the Page Corps, Major General Karl Osipovich Ode de Sion (1758-1837) and the commander of the Black Sea Squadron, Vice Admiral Alexei Sarychev (1760-1827).

Birth, Early Years

Born in 1877 in Orenburg, where his father, military doctor Pyotr Aleksandrovich Khrunov , a participant in the Khiva campaign , at that time, with the rank of college adviser ^[1], was in charge of the sanitary unit of the 5th regiment of the Orenburg Cossack army . Mother - hereditary noblewoman Elizaveta Aleksandrovna (1848-1926), nee Ode de Sion, graduate of the Orenburg Institute of Noble Maidens . Vladimir Petrovich had one older, as well as three younger brothers and two younger sisters. The family moved from place to place quite often, as their father progressed: until 1882 the Khrunovs lived in Orenburg, then until 1886 in Helsingfors (now in Finland ), until 1894 in the city of Murom, Vladimir province, and so on.

When Vladimir Petrovich was 8 years old, he was sent to relatives in Moscow so that he could study at the gymnasium ^[2] . After graduating from high school, he entered the imperial Moscow University . There he became a student of Professor Kliment Arkadyevich Timiryazev and even made friends with him ^[3] . According to family tradition, Countess Alexandra Tolstaya (1817-1904), a distant relative and godmother of his mother, sometimes visited Moscow during these years. Each time, Vladimir Petrovich visited her in a kindred way and treated her with special Moscow feasts , which the countess loved very much ^[2] .

He had to complete higher education in Kazan , where his father, already in the rank of state adviser, served as the team doctor of the 59th infantry reserve brigade. In 1903 he graduated from the Natural Department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Kazan University ^[4] with a diploma of the first degree. The father, as was customary in the family, sent him to travel to Switzerland ^[2] .

Beginning of teaching activities

Upon returning from a trip abroad he entered the chemical department of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute . For lack of funds, in 1906 he was forced to interrupt his studies and move to his father, who at that time served as a corps doctor of the 2nd Army Corps stationed in Grodno . He managed to get a place as a teacher of natural sciences in the Grodno private male gymnasium , and since then pedagogy has become his main occupation.

In Ranenburg

In 1909, at the invitation of a friend, he moved to Ranenburg (now Chaplygin) to take the place of a teacher of natural history and geography of the local male gymnasium . In 1909-1912, he taught the same subjects at the Ranenburg girls’ gymnasium, and from September 1910 he became secretary of its pedagogical council. In August 1918, the Commissariat of Public Education of the Ranenburg County appointed him the chairman of the Pedagogical Council of the Ranenburg Gymnasium, later renamed the 1st school of the 2nd level.

In 1921, the Ranenburg Institute of Public Education and the 2nd-level school with him were transformed into the Ranenburg Pedagogical College, in which Vladimir Petrovich took the post of teacher of natural sciences. He made friends with the famous teacher and author of textbooks K. N. Rashevsky (1874-1956), who since 1919 taught mathematics at the technical school ^[5] . In 1925, Vladimir Petrovich transferred to the post of teacher of pedology in the same technical school. He has been repeatedly sent to conventions of teachers of Pedagogical Schools in Moscow, Leningrad and Voronezh . At a congress in Moscow, he listened to the speeches of A. V. Lunacharsky and N. K. Krupskaya . By 1937, pedagogy was actually banned in the USSR, and Vladimir Petrovich returned to teaching natural sciences at the Ranenburg Pedagogical College, which was then renamed the technical school. From November 1941 to September 1943 he was the head teacher of the school, after which he returned to the duties of a teacher of natural sciences. In 1949, due to the liquidation of the school, he was appointed a biology teacher at Chaplygin secondary school. Soon after that he retired.

Community Activities

Since 1911, Vladimir Petrovich began to carry out active social activities in Ranenburg, becoming a member of the economic committee of the Ranenburg men's gymnasium. After the February Revolution, he became a member of the City Council, and since June 1916 he temporarily served as deputy mayor ^[6] . He also joined the editorial board of the newspaper Izvestia of the Ranenburg Council of Workers, Soldiers, and Peasants' Deputies and was the author of some notes in it ^[7] .

After the October Revolution, he continued to actively participate in the public life of the city. In 1920, he was elected a member of the Ranenburg County Executive Committee . Several times he was elected a member of the Ranenburg City Council - he was in charge of the financial and budget section. He held various positions in the county branch of the Trade Union of Public Education Workers and was its oldest member. In 1947 he was elected to the Ranenburg City Council of Workers' Deputies of the second convocation. In 1950, he was re-elected deputy of the Chaplyginsky City Council of Workers' Deputies.

• June 6, 1945 - he was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" for his achievements in the training of teachers during the war years by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR .
• September 7, 1946 - by order of the People's Commissar of Education of the RSFSR was awarded the badge " Excellence in Public Education ."
• September 19, 1947 - by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, he was awarded the title of Honored Teacher of the RSFSR School ^[8] .
• September 1, 1951 - by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR he was awarded the Order of Lenin .

He was married to the hereditary noblewoman Anna Vasilievna, nee Ode de Sion (1870-1952), who was brought to his cousin by mother. Her father, Lieutenant Vasily Alexandrovich , the prototype of one of the characters in the novel by V. Pikul “ Bayazet ”, died in Kursk when Anna Vasilievna was 13 years old. A cousin of her father Olga Alekseevna Filosofova (nee Stolypin ), maid of honor of Empress Maria Fedorovna , took her as a pupil to her in the Winter Palace . At the end of the court service, they moved together from St. Petersburg to Penza, where they settled in the Stolypin family home. In January 1903, Vladimir Petrovich Khrunov, while still a student of Kazan University, married Anna Vasilievna, their children:

• Khrunov, Kirill Vladimirovich (1904-1943) - military doctor, lieutenant of state security . He died of illness at the front of World War II.
• Shebanova, Olga Vladimirovna, nee Khrunova (1908-2006) - a high school teacher, was awarded the sign " Excellent student of public education ."
• Khrunov, Alexey Vladimirovich (1911-1982) - ZIL engineer.
• Korotkova, Maria Vladimirovna, nee Khrunova (1916-2001) - a high school teacher.

The final goal of Vladimir Petrovich was Moscow, where his father had a spacious own two-story house on 13 Aptekarsky Lane (demolished in the 1950s due to disrepair). The privy councilor Peter Aleksandrovich Khrunov himself, having retired in 1908, settled there with the rest of his family. Therefore, the first years in Ranenburg, waiting for the opening of a suitable vacancy in Moscow, Vladimir Petrovich did not care about finding his own housing, but rented the entire second floor of a house with a garden along Bolshaya Street (now Kirova), owned by the merchant Ivanov. His teacher salary was also enough for hiring a housekeeper and a visiting cook. In the summer, the Khrunov couple often visited with their children Anna Gavrilovna Zenkovich, an unmarried rich relative who lived with her pupils in her own estate, Kraevschina ^[9] near Kiev. Her hospitable house annually gathered under its roof numerous branches of the Khrunov family scattered throughout the expanses of the Russian Empire ^[2] .

The February and October revolutions, the chaos of the Civil War , as well as the death of his father and older brother in 1918, completely upset Vladimir Petrovich’s plans to move to Moscow. Now, income was only enough for hiring two rooms, which was very small for the large Khrunov family. However, by the beginning of the 1920s, he still managed to save up for the construction of a wooden house on Zastavnaya Street (now Oboronnaya) in 1860. This structure, consisting of two log cabins , united by a common roof and porch, still exists today. In the harsh 1930s, the provincial Ranenburg was a relatively safe place, in addition, the service of his son in the NKVD provided the family with additional protection. Therefore, Vladimir Petrovich, despite the cramped housing, sometimes gave refuge to those families of relatives who were threatened with persecution by punitive authorities in the capital ^[2] .

As the only teacher in the city of Chaplygin awarded the Order of Lenin, he was devoted to part of the exposition of the City Museum of Local Lore relating to education ^[2] . It consisted of documents and personal belongings transferred to the museum by themselves and relatives. However, in the early 1970s, after the death of Vladimir Petrovich, the party leadership of the city ​​became aware of his noble origin, as well as the "general" rank of his father ^[10] . It was decided that the representative of the class of owners socially alien to Soviet society did not have a place in the museum. The exposition was dismantled, and all exhibits associated with the "son of the tsarist general" were destroyed.

• Minutes of the meeting of the Council of Workers ', Soldiers' and Peasants 'Deputies dated June 12, 1917 / Chairman Sheindels, Secretary Kulikov // News of the Ranenburg Council of Workers', Soldiers 'and Peasants' Deputies: newspaper / Editorial Council: Tyurin, Kazan, Khrunov, Kulikov, Kazan and Aleksandrov. - Ranenburg, 1917. - No. 2 (June 17).
• V.P. Khrunov. Subscription to the “Freedom Scam” and donations for war needs // Bulletin of the Ranenburg Council of Workers, Soldiers and Peasants' Deputies: newspaper / Editorial Council: Tyurin, Kazan, Khrunov, Kulikov and Kazan. - Ranenburg, 1917. - No. 3 (June 27).