Okulov, Nikolay Pavlovich (deputy)

Born in the family of Pavel Moiseevich and Praskovya Alekseevna Okulov, peasants of the village of Filippovsky, Urzhum district, Vyatka province . Shortly after the birth of Nicholas, his parents moved to Nolinsk , where they were engaged in felting and felting. He studied at the Nola City College. In 1892 he entered the Kazan Teacher Institute with three years of study. He was forced to look for jobs, gave lessons to the workers of the workshop of ladies' dresses A.P. Stepnitskaya. Through the student of the Kazan feldsher school, Taisiya Trutnev entered the self-education circle of the Kazan Agricultural School. Among other things, the forbidden literature was studied in the circle: the works of F. Lassalle, K. Marx , K. Kautsky. The circle was slightly conspiratorial and did not have a clear revolutionary orientation. After graduating from the institute in 1895 as the best student, he was sent to the Tsaritsyno city two-year school, where he worked for only about 3 months. Rotmister Koch, who was investigating the case of revolutionary propaganda, wrote, "Okulov is an extremely talented teacher, treats with great love his activities and children ...". It turned out that without the permission of the director of the school, Okulov spent evenings with his students in the evenings at his apartment, reading to them Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenev. At the beginning of 1896 he was arrested. The books of Plekhanov and Axerod and letters of recommendation to the Tsaritsyn revolutionaries were seized from him. On October 22, 1896, he was imprisoned for 3 months, considering the preliminary detention of everything in the Saratov prison, he spent 9 months. Two-year oversight of the police is established, after this period unspoken oversight with the prohibition of life in the capitals and St. Petersburg province is established. Lived lessons. In 1898 he moved to Sarepta, where he conducted paperwork at various enterprises. In 1898 he married. At the beginning of 1899 he returned to Tsaritsyn, where he received the position of clerk at the sawmill S. M. Golitsyn . Received permission to move to Moscow due to his wife’s illness. Graduated from short accounting courses. He served as a hired accountant. He collaborated with the Tsaritsyno newspapers and the St. Petersburg Commercial and Industrial Newspaper. In 1905 he returned to Tsaritsyn ^[2] . He worked as an accountant in the Tsaritsyno agency of the Rostov millionaire E. T. Paramonov ^[3] . He became the founder and chairman of the union of accountants and clerks.

Taking 5th place out of 16, he was among the 8 electors from Tsaritsyn at the provincial election meeting. In Saratov, he joined the party of people's socialists ^[2] . On February 7, 1907, he was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation from the general electors of the Saratov provincial election meeting. Initially, it was reported that Okulov "convinced adjoins the party of socialist [ialists] -rev [olyutsionery]" ^[4] . But in the Duma it became part of the People's Socialist faction. He was a member of the Duma commission on the execution of the state list of income and expenses and the commission on the normal rest of employees in trade and craft establishments.

After the dissolution of the Duma, Okulov quit the Enes party and apparently did not engage in political activity. He worked as an accountant in the office of Prince S. M. Golitsyn, received a salary of 400 rubles a month. In 1910 he went to Switzerland for treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, visited France. In 1912 he built a large one-story stone house in Novorossiysk, because he needed a dry southern climate due to tuberculosis. In 1916, he bought an estate with a residential building and outbuildings in the village of Alekseevka, Kerensky district, Penza province, but in 1917 the estate was selected by peasants. He moved to Novorossiysk, according to his testimony given during the 1938 investigation, under Denikin he worked as an assistant notary. In 1925, the family moved to Moscow. In the 1930s, he worked as an accountant and deputy chairman of the board of the Sokol workers' housing and construction cooperative partnership ^{[2] [5]} .

On August 8, 1937, he allowed himself a careless phrase addressed to an employee of the NKVD in Moscow and the Moscow Region, who was looking at home books in the office: “It’s necessary to drive this bacon, it only hinders to work.” On September 5, 1937, he was dismissed from his job with the phrase "for antisocial behavior defaming the title of Soviet worker." He was arrested on the night of March 16-17, 1938, during the search two books in a foreign language and two photographs of the State Duma were seized. In addition, colleagues showed that Okulov refused to subscribe to a state loan and did not join the union.

On August 15, 1938, at a meeting of the special board of the Moscow City Court, he was convicted under article 58-10 of Part 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (anti-Soviet agitation) to 7 years in prison camp and to deprivation of suffrage for three years ^[6] . On October 4, 1938, the criminal collegium of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR rejected the cassation appeal against the verdict. Information about serving the conclusion or about Okulov’s death was not found. According to the biographer Okulov, the historian E.P. Vorobyov, this suggests that he died before reaching the place of detention ^[2] .

On September 22, 1995, the Prosecutor's Office of Moscow rehabilitated on the basis of the law of the RSFSR "On the rehabilitation of victims of political repression" of October 18, 1991 ^[2] .

• The older sister and three younger brothers, including Andrei Pavlovich Okulov and Peter Pavlovich Okulov ^[2] .
• Wife (from June 29, 1898) - Nadezhda Feofilaktovna Fedonina ^[2]
  • Daughter - Vera (06/28/1899—?) ^[2]
  • Is the son a name? (1901—?), An oil engineer in Kazakhstan ^[2] .
  • Daughter - Olga Nikolaevna Okulova (1906—?), A long-term employee of the VGBIL ^[2] .

• 1925-1938 - Moscow, ul. Belinsky d. 4 apt. 13 ^[6] .

• Boyovich M. M. Members of the State Duma (Portraits and Biographies). The second convocation. M, 1907. S. 311
• Members of the 2nd State Duma. Biographies. Comparative characteristics of the members of the 1st and 2nd Duma. Alphabetical Index. SPb .: Pushkinskaya early printing. 1907.P. 90.
• State Duma of the Russian Empire: 1906-1917. B. Yu. Ivanov, A.A. Komzolova, I.S. Ryakhovskaya. Moscow. ROSSPEN. 2008.S. 426.
• Vorobyov Ye. P. “Russian life is not so bad that it does not give good work”: the fate of State Duma deputy N. P. Okulov. // New historical bulletin, 2015.
• Vorobyov E.P. Political activity of the deputy of the II State Duma of the Russian Empire N.P. Okulov // Bulletin of the Archivist 2017 No. 4 .

Archives

• Russian State Historical Archive. Foundation 1278. Inventory 1 (2nd convocation). Case 310; Case 567. Sheet 11.