Metadata: [N. R. Botvinnik, Ia. N. Sodoman]
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Russian Museum of Ethnography
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российский этнографический музей
- Postal address:
- 191186, Россия, Санкт-Петербург, Инженерная ул., 4/1
- Phone number:
- (812) 313-45-74
- Web address:
- http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/
- Email:
- info@ethnomuseum.ru
- Reference number:
- Unnumbered fond
- Title:
- [N. R. Botvinnik, Ia. N. Sodoman]
- Title (official language):
- [Ботвинник Н. Р., Содоман Я. Н.]
- Creator/accumulator:
- [N. R. Botvinnik, Ia. N. Sodoman]
- Date(s):
- 1876/1960
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- approx. 54 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- [The fonds was being processed when this description was written; information given is as of April 2017.] Housed in the fonds are documentary materials pertaining to the life and activities of N. R. Botvinnik, including a certificate issued by the Petrograd community rabbi to N. R. Botvinnik’s wife M. L. Lapiner for her “enrollment in an institution of higher learning” (1916); the marriage certificate of N. R. Botvinnik and his wife M. L. Lapiner (1916); the certificate registering their son Mark in the “vital records of Jews born in the city of Petrograd (1921); a prescription form from N. R. Botvinnik’s eye clinic (1917); etc.; personal documents of the Sodoman family include an extract from the personnel file of transport crewman Private N. A. Sodoman, issued to M. Ia. Sodoman to be presented to institutions of higher learning, and including copies of Emperor Alexander III’s edict awarding N. A. Sodoman the “For Diligence” [za userdie] medal; documents and extracts therefrom regarding N. A. Sodoman’s naval service and participation in campaigns aboard the ship Emgeiten, his marriage, his assignment to the Emperor Paul I Home for Invalids, and burial at the Jewish (Preobrazhenskii) cemetery in St. Petersburg in 1886; attestations, documents, and certificates issued to Ia. N. Sodoman in connection with his service on Russian and Polish railways and in other institutions and organisations (1877-1922), his death certificate (1934), etc.; M. Ia. Sodoman’s birth certificate, issued by the Gomel’ community rabbi (1892); his assistant pharmacist’s certificate for the medical school of the Imperial Iur’ev [Dorpat/Tartu] University (1915); his certificate of fulfilment of military service requirements; the notebook of M. Ia. Sodoman, serviceman of the 94th Enisei Regiment (1913); his passport book, issued by the Kronstadt Townsmen’s Administration, and passport (1913, 1917); the conduct lists of his pharmaceutical practice (1916-18); his employment record books (1921, 1939); and documents on his medals for his service in the Great Fatherland War (1943, 1959, 1960); M. Ia. Suzdal’skaia’s marriage certificate (1914); a copy of her permit to open a dental office (1914); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The fonds consists of personal documents of the ophthalmologist and public figure Naum (Nakhum) Rafailovich Botvinnik (1872-1939). N. R. Botvinnik graduated from Tomsk University medical school. In 1894, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he worked at the Military Medical Academy. In 1897, he received the title of doctor of medicine, whereupon he opened a private clinic. He was one of the founders, in 1912, of the Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jewish Population (OZE), and a member of its committee. He received awards for his part in medical expeditions to combat trachoma in the Pale of Settlement, including the Order of St. Vladimir, due to which he received the rank of state councillor. He was mobilised during the First World War, and was employed at the academy as a military doctor. After the February Revolution of 1917, he became the first non-converted Jew to be appointed a teacher at the Military Medical Academy by its research council. From 1920-30, he worked at a Jewish clinic. He became a member of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (OPE) in 1896, participated in its history commission from 1898, and was elected to the society’s committee; he studied issues of Jewish education, and was a contributor to the Perezhitoe [The Past; also translatable as What Has Been Experienced] collections. In the early 1920s, he took part in the OPE’s resumption of activities, and drafted its new charter. In the 1910s-20s, he was a member of the Jewish Historical-Ethnographic Society. Also housed in the fonds are personal documents of Iakov Naumovich Sodoman (1865 (?)-1934), a technician who worked on the Libau-Romny, Warsaw, and Nikolaev railways and in the Office of Polish Railroads of the Ministry of Railways and Main Society of Railways; and personal documents of his father, Nakhum Abram Sodoman (1826-86), a Navy serviceman; his son Mikhail Iakovlevich (born 1892), a pharmacist and veteran of the Second World War; and his daughter Minna Iakovlevna (married name: Suzdal’skaia), a dentist. The Russian Museum of Ethnography received the materials of N. R. Botvinnik and Ia. N. Sodoman as a single set of documents.
- Access points: locations:
- Gomel’
- Petrograd
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory without any apparent systematisation.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
