Kiparisov, Fedor Vasilievich

After graduating from Sergiev Posad High School in 1904, he entered the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University . In 1905 he attended the summer term of the University of Bern . In the same year he joined the RSDLP (b) abroad.

Returning to Moscow, he became a party propagandist. At the university he moved to the group of philosophical sciences, but due to illness he was forced to interrupt his education and quit the party. Nevertheless, he remained in the field of view of the public safety department in Moscow. In March 1912, during an interrogation to the question about “personal means of life,” he answered: “I live on my wife’s means and private lessons” ^[1] . In the same year, he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University and studied at the Department of Classical Philology under S. A. Zhebelev . In the years 1915-1917. published several works on classical philology (Greek epigraphy ) in the Journal of the Ministry of Education .

Neither in the revolution nor in the Civil War did F.V. Kiparisov take part. In the years 1915-1920. served on the Northern Railroad as an agent.

In 1920, he was reinstated in the party and sent to "Soviet" work. In 1920-1929 - Member of the Presidium, Deputy. Chairman of the Main Political Administration Ts.K. Union of educators, executive secretary of the section of scientists. In those same years, Kiparisov actively collaborated in the periodicals of Teacher’s Newspaper, the magazines Worker of Education, Scientific Worker, and Public Teacher.

Since 1929, Kiparisov lived in Leningrad; was a professor at the Historical-Linguistic Institute (1929-1932) ^[2] , deputy. ch. Editor of the Dictionary of the Russian Language of the Academy of Sciences (1933-1935).

Since 1929, he actually headed the State Academy of the History of Material Culture (GAIMK). Before the death of N. Ya. Marr , at the end of 1934, Kiparisov was officially considered his first deputy. Kiparisov was able to justify the relevance of archaeological research, in particular, due to the expansion of research in the field of the history of technology. In 1935, a series of books on technological research was published in Izvestia GAIMK.

Kiparisov rarely appeared in print. An exception is his groundbreaking work, “The Thing Is a Historical Source”. Reflecting information about different aspects of human activity, “things” do not lend themselves to unambiguous classification.

He was arrested on August 16, 1936. According to the prosecution, he was ^[3] :

an active participant in the counter-revolutionary Trotsky-Zinoviev terrorist organization, which committed the villainous murder of S. M. Kirov on December 1, 1934, and prepared a series of terrorist acts against the leaders of the CPSU (b) and the Soviet government, and took part in the preparation of terrorist acts against Comrade Kirov in 1932–34 and comrade Zhdanov in 1935-1936.

On December 19, 1936, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR sentenced him to capital punishment (Articles 58-8, 11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR). In accordance with the Archive and Investigation Case, Kiparisov was shot on the same day. However, according to the Certificate of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, issued to his son A. F. Kiparisov on February 8, 1957, "while serving his sentence, died on May 4, 1939."

In accordance with Definition No. 4n-04780/57 of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of June 27, 1957:

The verdict of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR of December 19, 1936 in relation to Bykovsky Sergey Nikolaevich, Khudyakov Mikhail Georgievich , Kiparisov Fedor Vasilyevich and Adrian Vasily Stepanovich due to newly discovered circumstances, to cancel and to dismiss the case for them in the absence of corpus delicti.

• Father - Professor of the Moscow Theological Academy V.F. Kiparisov .
• The first wife is the daughter of the Moscow merchant Maria Fyodorovna Afremova.
• Son - George (1908—?).
• The second wife is the singer and actress of the Moscow Art Theater Olga Vladimirovna Bogoslovskaya (1889-1979).
• Son Vadim (1920-1941) - died at the front.
• Son Alexey (1929—2018) is an artist.

• Platonova N.I. Fedor Vasilievich Kiparisov - Chairman of GAIMK in 1935-1936 // Academic archeology on the banks of the Neva (from RAIMK to the IIMK RAS, 1919-2014). - SPb. , 2013. - S. 19-22.
• Platonova N.I. The Chairpersons of GAIMK - Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr and Fedor Vasilievich Kiparisov // Traditions of Russian Archeology. - SPb., 1996. - S. 50-54.
• Sultanbekov B.F. Shot as a terrorist // Echo of centuries - Gasyrlar Avazy. - 2002. - No. 1–2 . - S. 107–125 .

• Kiparisov Fedor Vasilievich. Network biographical dictionary of historians of St. Petersburg University XVIII-XX centuries. - SPb., 2012.
• Fyodor Vasilievich Kiparisov on the site “Scientific Heritage of Russia”.
• People and destinies. Bibliographic dictionary of Orientalists - victims of political terror in the Soviet period (1917-1991). - SPb .: Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2003
• Kiparisov, Fyodor Vasilyevich at the Rodovod . Tree of ancestors and descendants