Aleksei Dorofeevich Bobkov (March 1904 - January 1, 1968 ) - lawyer, chairman of the Moscow Old Believer community of the Rogozhsky cemetery (1960-1968).
| Alexey Bobkov | |
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| Birth name | Alexey Dorofeevich Bobkov |
| Date of Birth | 1904 |
| Date of death | January 1, 1968 |
| Occupation | lawyer |
Belonged to the Old Believer family. His grandfather was a senior singer at the Rogozhsky cemetery, his father was an accountant at a factory owned by the Old Believer merchants Milovanov. Son, Evgeny Alekseevich , Old Believer archpriest. Grandchildren - Bobkov Sergey Evgenievich, Bobkov Nikolai Evgenievich, Bobkov Gleb Evgenievich - Old Believers priests.
He graduated from the faculty of Soviet law of Moscow State University ( 1928 ), worked in the administrative department of the Moscow City Council, in the courses "Shot", as a legal adviser. In the 1930s he was convicted of political charges, and was imprisoned for three years. In 1942 - 1953 - a lawyer of the Moscow Regional Bar Association, helped believers, in 1951, for an independent professional position, was suspended from work for a year. He was greatly influenced by the famous Old Believer spiritual writer Bishop Mikhail (Semenov) , on whose grave in the Rogozh cemetery he erected a monument.
From 1960 he headed the Moscow Old Believer community, in 1961 - 1967 in this capacity was a member of the cathedrals of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church . He took part in the publication of the church calendar for 1963-1968 - the only Old Believer publication of that time. He collected ancient manuscripts and literature on the history of the Old Believers, corresponded with the famous archaeographer V. I. Malyshev .
He was buried at the Rogozhsky cemetery.