Metadata: I. M. Tregubov
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- State Museum of the History of Religion
- Holding institution (official language):
- Государственный музей истории религии
- Postal address:
- 190000, Russia, St. Petersburg, Pochtamskaia ul., d. 14/5
- Phone number:
- (812) 315-30-80
- Web address:
- www.gmir.ru
- Email:
- gmir@relig-museum.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 13
- Title:
- I. M. Tregubov
- Title (official language):
- Трегубов И. М.
- Creator/accumulator:
- I. M. Tregubov
- Date(s):
- 1853/1938
- Language:
- Russian
- French
- English
- German
- Extent:
- 1,897 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The fonds includes articles and notes by I. M. Tregubov; his correspondence and personal documents; materials of his family’s archive; a collection of documents on the history of sectarianism; materials on the topic of conscientious objection; newspaper clippings; etc. The documents reflect I. M. Tregubov’s espousal of religious freedom and pacifism and his involvement in human rights activities, and in particular, in trials of Trezvenniki [“teetotaler”] sectarians and Tolstoyans; his activities in promoting and organising sectarian (Trezvennik, Molokan, Mennonite) agricultural communes; his work with the Joint Council of Conscientious Objection Societies and Groups; and his position against antisemitism, and in particular, a fragment of a letter from an unidentified person describing the pogrom against Jews in Odessa in 1905; a manuscript by I. V. Smirnov titled Antisemitism and Revolution, which discusses the everyday antisemitism of the period and Soviet power’s attitude toward it (1918); and an article, translated by I. M. Tregubov, from the journal Revue politique et litteraire (Paris, 1883, no. 22), on a meeting of the Society for Jewish Studies at which Ernest Renan read a report titled “The Original Identity and Gradual Separation of Judaism and Christianity.”
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ivan Mikhailovich Tregubov (1858-1931) was a writer and public figure. An acquaintance of Lev Tolstoy, he was an adherent of Tolstoyanism. After graduating from the Poltava Theological Seminary, he became a tutor in a men’s religious school in 1884, where he remained until 1890. Then he moved to Moscow, where he worked at the Posrednik publishing house. From 1896 on, he made public appeals in defence of the Dukhobors. He was subjected to persecution by the authorities, arrested, and deported to Courland (now southwestern Latvia). Before returning to Russia in 1905, he visited Switzerland and France, collecting documents on religious sects for his archive. He wrote a series of social and antiwar appeals and proclamations. In 1907-14 he lived in St. Petersburg and was involved in distributing copies of Lev Tolstoy's pamphlet The Only Possible Solution to the Land Issue to members of the State Duma; he attended Tolstoy’s talks, and from June 1909 on, regularly transcribed and published them, first in an abridged version in the newspaper Novaia Rus’, then in a 1912 collection. In 1908 he organised the Community of Free Christians. He responded to the outbreak of the First World War with an antiwar appeal titled “Come to Your Senses, Brethren!,” for which he was arrested and spent more than a year in Taganka prison. He was released in 1916, his case concluding with his acquittal. In 1920-21, he worked as an instructor in the People’s Commissariat of Education. From 1923 on, he served as an official agent of the Dukhobor communities of the Northern Caucasus and Ukraine, and spoke out in support of the Living Church movement. In 1929, he lent support to and helped distribute an open letter by the peasant writer M. P. Novikov titled “On raising the crop yield in peasant agriculture.” He was arrested soon thereafter along with M. P. Novikov, and died in exile in 1931 in the village of Suzak in Kazakhstan.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Renan, Ernest
- Smirnov, I. V.
- Tregubov, I. M. (Ivan Mikhailovich)
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes three inventories systematised according to the thematic-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
