Igor Platonovich Demidov (June 5 ( 17 ), 1873 - October 20, 1946 , Paris ) - Russian journalist and political figure, member of the IV State Duma from the Tambov province.
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| Date of Birth | June 5 (18), 1873 |
| Place of Birth | Nizhny Novgorod province |
| Date of death | October 20, 1946 (73 years old) |
| A place of death | Paris , France |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | Member of the State Duma of the IV convocation from the Tambov province |
| Education | Imperial Moscow University |
| Religion | Orthodoxy |
| The consignment | Constitutional Democratic Party |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Emigration
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Biography
He came from the Demidov clan: father Platon Aleksandrovich Demidov (09.17.1840-07.10.1892) - a judicial figure; Valid State Councilor; Honorary Trustee of the Nizhny Novgorod Noble Institute (buried in the Shuvalovskoye cemetery ). On the maternal side, he was the compiler of the βExplanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Languageβ V. I. Dahl .
He graduated from the Demidov Law Lyceum in Yaroslavl and the Law Faculty of Moscow University ( 1899 ). In his student years he was going to take monasticism in Optina Desert .
Having married Ekaterina Yuryevna Novoseltseva I.P. Demidov settled in Temnikov . In a dowry, he received a estate near Temnikov in the village of Kondrovka.
Honorary Justice of the Peace (1902), leader of the nobility , chairman of the Zemstvo Council (1906) of the Temnikovsky Uyezd in the Tambov Province . In 1904 he joined the β Union of Liberation β, which subsequently joined the Constitutional Democratic Party . Vice-chairman of the Moscow Society of Agriculture, member of the editorial board of the newspaper " Russian News ". In 1909 he became a freemason, a member of the Ursa Minor and Northern Star lodges, and was a member of the Supreme Council of the Great East of the peoples of Russia . Member of the IV State Duma from the Tambov province (1912-1917); adjoined the left wing of the Cadets, who advocated a more radical tactical course, for the unification of democratic forces.
At the beginning of World War I, he organized an advanced sanitary detachment led by his wife E. Yu. Demidova. He took an active part in the work and was a member of the Main Committee of the All-Russian Zemstvo Union for Assistance to Sick and Wounded Soldiers.
After the February Revolution, he was appointed Commissioner to the Ministry of Agriculture and Commissioner of the Provisional Government on the South-Western Front . In May 1917, at the VIII Congress, he was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Cadet Party. Candidate member of the Constituent Assembly . He advocated the continuation of the war "to a victorious end."
After the October Revolution, he entered the National Center , until 1919 he directed the work of its department in Kiev . He stood at the origins of the creation of Shulginsky "Alphabet" - an underground nickname " Buki " [1] . In December 1919, he headed the delegation sent by General A.I. Denikin to Poland .
Emigration
In 1920, not wanting to work with P.N. Wrangel , he emigrated to Paris . In April 1920, at a cadet meeting in the apartment of Baron B.E. Nolde, he made a statement on "lowering the moral and disciplinary level of the Volunteer Army "; Following P. N. Milyukov, he insisted on the impossibility of waging a struggle in the old forms and on the unacceptability of such a figure as P. N. Wrangel.
Since April 1921 - an employee, and since March 1924 - a member of the editorial board and assistant editor of the newspaper "Latest News". He was a member of the conspiratorial "Center for Action" created by N. V. Tchaikovsky to lead the anti-Bolshevik struggle in Russia. After a split among the Parisian cadets, together with P.N. Milyukov he formed the Democratic Group. Then he took part in the creation of the Republican Democratic Association. In the early 1920s he was a member of the parish council of the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Paris.
He wrote: Duma on Orthodoxy // Modern Notes. - 1923. - No. 17. (Reprinted: Thoughts on Orthodoxy // Russian Foreign Literature: Anthology: 6 vol. / Comp. V.V. Lavrov; Edited by A. L. Afanasyev. - M .: Book, 1990 . - T. 1, book 1. - S. 332β338).
In 1940, after the occupation of Paris, he was evacuated with the editors of "Latest News" to Arcachon .
He died of a serious illness in 1946. He was buried in the Batignolles cemetery in Paris.
His son Yuri, a former active member of the Russian Student Christian Movement, died childless in Paris in 1963. Another son, Igor Igorevich Demidov, who for many years headed the Russian Red Cross in Paris, died in 1992. Both are buried near Paris at the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois .
Grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Igor Platonovich live in Paris: Maria Igorevna (born 1932), Igor Igorevich (born 1934) with their sons - George, Igor and Alexander.
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| a lion (1745-1801) | Alexander (1737-1803) | Pavel (1739-1821) | Peter (1740-1826) | Nikolay (1773-1828) | Ivan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Basil (1769-1861) | Gregory (1765-1827) | Alexey (1771 - until 1841) | Pavel (1798-1840) | Anatoly (1812-1870) | Nikolay (1773-1833) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alexander (1811-1872) | Alexander (1803-1853) | Peter (1807-1862) | Pavel (1809-1858) | Denis (d. 1876) | Pavel (1839-1885) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plato (1840-1892) | Gregory (1837-1870) | St. Prince Nikolay Lopukhin-Demidov (1836-1910) | Alexander (1845-1893) | Michael (1840-1898) | Elym (1868-1943) | Anatoly (1874-1943) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Igor (1873-1946) | Alexander (1870-1937) | Pavel (1869-1935) | Nikolay (1871 - 1957) | Vladimir (1907 - 1983) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes
- β Repnikov A.V .; Grebenkin I.N. Vasily Vitalievich Shulgin (Russian) // Questions of History . - 2010. - No. 4 . - S. 25-40 . Archived on November 29, 2014.
Literature
- Golostenov M.E. Demidov Igor Platonovich // Political Parties of Russia, end of XIX - first third of XX century: Encyclopedia. - M .: ROSSPEN, 1996 .-- S. 181.
- State Duma of the Russian Empire, 1906-1917: Encyclopedia. - M .: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2008. - P. 158-159. - ISBN 978-5-8243-1031-3 .
Links
- Igor Platonovich Demidov on the Chronos website
- Demidov, Igor Platonovich