Biography Bervie Flerovskii Golitsin

Bervie Flerovsky Vasily (28.04 (10.05) .1829 – 4.10.1918). The revolution can not be objective – it means and, moreover, is a tool that the most dangerous in the hands of people who do not have defined and shared goals, or acting in concert with goals antithetical to, and in this case, the masses will inevitably rake up the fire for others. Without a leader we all – and moderate and immoderate, and revolutionaries and revolutionaries – are acting like peas in all directions, and all appears and ends in accident, instantly create and emitted groups; anything there is no unity, nothing has the strength, the second line and reserve . Despite all this, despite the fact that we all can see, we go one after the other and ruin themselves one after another, driven by despair, with which we are unable to resist. V. Bervie Flerovsky V. Bervi born on April 28 (10 May) in 1829 in Ryazan. Of the hereditary nobility. Sooner addicted to reading, particularly books on the history of the French Revolution, which he took in the library of his father, a professor of physiology at Kazan University. In 20 years, graduated from Kazan State University with a degree candidate and "with special distinction" that gives him the right "to begin service in the ministries and general departments. From 1849 worked in the Ministry of Justice, in St. Petersburg. Career Bervie is going well, but the service burden to him, so when in 1861, first in Kharkiv, and then St. Petersburg University offered him a teaching, he happily agreed, believing that the purpose of his life has been achieved. He successfully passed key exams and preparing for foreign travel "for preparing for a professorship in St. Petersburg University, but at this time are student unrest. Having decided to protest against the massacre of students, Bervi wrote a petition from his colleagues, formed the "cream of Russian law, in order to" open the eyes of the Emperor on this matter "and collects underneath the signature. He threatened to arrest and exile, but limited lifting of foreign trips. More drastic measures were applied to Bervie in the next, in 1862, when he defended the arrest of thirteen Tver nobility – conciliators, convey to Alexander II, opposition to the feudal parties peasant reform of 1861 and demanded that the representative assembly of all classes. At this time Bervi wrote to the Tsar, letters to the Marshals of the nobility of all provinces of Russia and the appeal to the British Embassy. King, he warned that the government's repressive policies lead to revolution, the leaders of the nobility had requested to speak in defense of the rights of their class, the British ambassador – to inform people of their country, that "despotic … actions of the Russian government "is not" left without objection by the oppressed. " The shape of these documents did not give any reason for the prosecution Bervie. Then the authorities resorted to truly Jesuit methods. There was doubt about his intellectual abilities. The arrested Bervie to the hospital for the insane, and within six months were subjected to various surveys, and when all the commission found him completely healthy, in December 1862 went into exile in Astrakhan. Link this with a break in the years 1870-1874. continued until 1887, ie 25 years, and was accompanied by incredible harassment, constant surveillance police searches, arrests, imprisonment, frequent changes of places of exile (Astrakhan, Kazan, Kuznetsk, and Tomsk in Siberia, Vologda, Tver, Arkhangelsk Shenkursk Province, Kostroma). Constant wanderings gave Bervie rich material for his numerous books on history, sociology, economics, law, and also for his artistic works. Since the late 60-ies he was actively working under various aliases in the democratic journals Notes of the Fatherland "," Case "," Knowledge, "" Word "and other periodicals. His major work "The situation working class in Russia" (St Petersburg, 1869, under the pseudonym AN Flerovsky, Vol. 2-e, pererab., SPb., 1872 arrested) based on his personal long-term observations of life working people of those provinces in which he had to be, as he outlined in his letter to Marx of 11 (23) May 1871 (see: Marx, Engels and Revolutionary Russia, pp. 191 -195). To get acquainted with the book Bervie, Marx began to study Russian language and evaluated it very highly, placing it on par with the work of Engels' "Condition of the Working Class in England, and the author himself – with NGTchernyshevskiy (ibid., pp. 24-26, 35, 37, 66, 168, 171, 185). Revolutionary Organization of Tchaikovsky, with which this work was published and asked Bervie write a work on sociology and ethics to young people, which he sang in his book The ABCs of Social Sciences (St. Petersburg, 1871, Part I-II, Anonymous, arrested) . In 1873, at the request dolgushintsev (from the name of their leader, AV Dolgushin), he wrote propaganda pamphlet "How to be live by the laws of nature and truth", published in their underground press. Although these works Bervi no direct appeal to the revolution, the socialist ideas contained in them, the noble personality of their author had a significant influence on the revolutionary youth. Many of his works were banned by the censor, were confiscated and destroyed. In 1890 Bervie moved to Tiflis (now Tbilisi), and in 1893 he went abroad in Geneva, then to London, where by "Free Russian Press Foundation, an organization of political exiles led by steppe SM -Kravchinsky, completed the publication of his main work – "ABC of Social Sciences (London, 1894, Part III, vol. 1 – 3). On his return in 1896 he briefly served in Kostroma zemstvos, and in 1897 moved to Yuzovka (now Donetsk) and entered the service of an accountant. The last eight or nine years Bervie seriously ill. He died on October 4, 1918 "According to feelings – wrote about him NV Shelgunov – it was Christ, and at the same time, the most bigoted populist, the most ardent revolutionary." Writings (except the above) Freedom of speech, tolerance, and our laws on the press. SPb., 1869 (anonymous); 3rd ed. SPb., 1872. Research on current issues. SPb., 1872 (anonymous). On life and death. Image idealists. Roman. Geneva, 1877, Part I-III (anonymously), St. Petersburg., 1907 (Part I and II). Philosophy of the unconscious, Darwinism and the real truth. SPb., 1878 (anonymous). Vasiliev [Bervi VV]. Mirabeau, his life and public activities. Biographical sketch. SPb., 1894. Flerovsky N. Three Political Systems: Nicholas I, Alexander II and Alexander III. Memoirs. London, 1897. Flerovsky N. Criticism of the fundamental ideas of science. SPb., 1904. Bervie Flerovsky V. Memoirs revolutionary dreamer. M. – L., 1929. Bervie Flerovsky V. Selected economic works. M., 1958 – 1959, v. 1-2 (in Volume 2 is a bibliography). LITERATURE Aptekman OV Vasily Bervie Flerovsky. L., 1925. Podor G. economic views VV Bervie Flerovskii. M., 1952. Plakida MM fearless worker. Stalino, 1960.