The illegal print shop in Kursk. I base the party of the Socialist Revolutionaries in Kursk in 1903

Revolutionary and information activities of political parties in Russia have increased significantly in 1900-1907.

I was a student of Mathematics Department of  St. Petersburg Imperial University in this period.  I was a student of   Kiev’s  Imperial University of St. Vladimir in 1898-1900 too.

Visiting  of the University was not necessary for students.  We have established the timetable of visiting our classes  ourselves. The students  could not visit there university  over the years.  I had not practical classes on my Department  of  Mathematics in St. Petersburg.

I was in Kursk every summer during  the vacation time and sometimes in the winter too.

Some members of our family in front of our house in Kursk . 

 Me  ( Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev) is   on the right.

I tried to do revolutionary work  during  the  vacation time    in my homeland in Kursk.

There was not  large-scale industry  in Kursk in that period and  there were only certain groups of workers.  Our work was  primarily for revolutionizing  of the peasant masses.

I found  a hectograph and started  the  printing of  the proclamations.

I putted up printed  proclamations throughout the city on the houses and fences myself.

I  sent out some of the  printed proclamations  to the factories and villages. 

I printed the proclamations without changing my  handwriting. I ordered a special big round seal  for greater credibility. It was  engraved on this seal:

 “"Everybody can  find  there rights in the struggle . The Kursk Regional  Committee of the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries”.

Although the entire committee and the entire party in Kursk consisted of a single person, myself! 

Znamensky Monastery in Kursk (1905).

                             The Triumphal Arch on Moscow street in Kursk (1900).

                                                    The Moscow street in Kursk (1910).

This information is taken from the diary of Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev (1882-1954) – the mathematician, socialist, revolutionary, financier and banker.

The full text of diary is on :

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This is the photos from the life in 1890 - 1915 of the family of Feodor Prokopyevich Timofeev. Feodor Prokopyevich Timofeev was the very prosperous 2nd Guild merchant in Kursk Russia.

This is the photos from the life  in 1890 - 1915 of the family of  Feodor Prokopyevich  Timofeev. Feodor Prokopyevich  Timofeev was the very  prosperous  2nd Guild  merchant in Kursk Russia.

The  Timofeev's family on the porch of their family  house in Kursk.

I am (Timofeev Adrian Fedorovich)  second from the  left in the top row.

           Me(Timofeev Adrian Fedorovich) is the   second from the left in the middle  row.

Feodor Prokopyevich  Timofeev had eight childrens: 6 boys and 2 girls.
There were 3 childrens from Natalie - his first wife (maiden name, first name and  years of life - not known).

My imprisonment in 1931 in Verhneuralsky political prison of OGPU (KGB) on the case of The Mensheviks Union.

            The public trial in Column Hall of Union House in Moscow  in 1931.

I ( Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev) belonged to the Russian  Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries. It was a major political party in early 20th century in  Russia and a key player in the Russian Revolution. It  won a plurality of the national vote  in Russia's first-ever democratic elections. This election was to the RUSSIAN CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY. This party was defeated and destroyed by the  Bolsheviks.

It was my  second imprisonment.  It was  in  1930-1934.

          

This is my photo after returning  to Moscow from in  Verhneuralsky  political prison  of OGPU (KGB) on the case of The Mensheviks Union. I returned to Moscow in 1934.

The Tramble cafe in the center of Moscow which was famous among artists, writers, painters and musicians.

      This building was built in 1776 for the Governor-General of Siberia Jacobi. Alexander Annenkov spent his childhood in this house. Some later this building became very profitable because of  placed  hotels, restaurants, and cafes  which were visited by many famous artists, poets, writers, painters and musicians.
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The  Annenkov house in the center of Moscow.

(Alexander Dumas, Burliuk, Esenin, Fencing Master, French writer, Ivan Bunin, Mayakovsky, Nobel Prize winner, Shershenevich, Timofeev, Tramble, Tremble, Vertinsky,)

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Attempt of stealing of 320,000 rubles (800,000.00 US dollars) from the  Moscow branch of the Siberian Trade Bank  in January 1917.

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The famouse Tramble cafe in the Annenkov house (1910).

Street  view  of the Tramble cafe (1910).

The Tramble (Tremble) cafe on the left side of the Petrovka street (1910).

The Annenkov house in the center of Moscow.

This  building was built in 1776 for the Governor-General of Siberia Prince Jacobi. 
Decembrist  Ivan Annenkov  spent his childhood and adolescence   in this house. This building became very profitable in 19th century  because of  the  hotels, restaurants, and cafes placed in it.

These places was  liked to visit by  the famous Moscow writers, poets, musicians and artists  in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Here was  the famous cafe Tramble (Tremble) which  liked to visit  Ivan Alekseevich Bunin  the outstanding Russian writer and  Nobel Prize winner  for literature in 1933, revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and many other  poets, musicians and artists.

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The Tramble cafe in the center of Moscow  which was famous among artists, writers, painters and musicians.

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Attempt of stealing of 320,000 rubles (800,000.00 US dollars) from the  Moscow branch of the Siberian Trade Bank  in January 1917.

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Famous Tramble cafe (1901).

The first wooden church at this place appeared in 1753. The church was consecrated in honor of the birth of Jesus Christ (Rozhdestvenskaya). On 30 July of 1914 my bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna Kramskaya and me had Wedding Ceremony in this chirch.

The first wooden church at this place  appeared in 1753. The church was consecrated in honor of the birth of Jesus Christ (Rozhdestvenskaya).

Ten streets in this district  and all area were named Rozhdestvensky  in honor of this  church.

Instead of the disassembled wooden church in 1787 was completed the remarkable stone temple. This temple has become one of the most beautiful in St. Petersburg.

This temple was destroyed in 1934 during the Stalinist period.

The   Rozhdestvenskaya  Chirch  in 1905.


The place whereThe  Rozhdestvenskaya  Chirch  have to be. (2012). 

The Odessa Stock and Commodity Exchange

The Odessa  Сommodity  Exchange was one of the oldest Exchanges in Russia.  It was founded  in 1796. 

This is a picture of old Odessa  Сommodity  Exchange building.  This  building was constructed in  neoclassical style and was located on the seaside boulevard. 

The building of the "New Merchants Exchange." Photographic postcard of the early XX century

It is noteworthy that the exchange was established in Odessa at the request of the foreign merchants. Meetings were held daily from 10 to 12 hours. To observe the procedure on the Stock Exchange was attended by Chief of Police. Three decades was enough to speculators raised the question of its own building, which quickly built. But the new building did not satisfy the gathering, as the room side by side with other exchanges urban institutions. Their work was fettering the activities of speculators. With the bond issue was proposed to raise money to build a new exchange of Odessa. It was laid in 1894 at the corner of Pushkin Street and the Police. The cost of construction was about 800,000 rubles.

On the Stock Exchange trade at Odessa is little known. In the memoirs of contemporaries, almost nothing is said of the passions in the trading of securities.

The building of the "New Merchants Exchange" now.

Makaryev's Fair ( Nizhny Novgorod Fair later) was the greatest Trade Fair in Imperial Russia.

Makaryev's Trade  Fair (Makarevskaya Jarmarka) was the Greatest Trade Fair in Russia held annually every July near Makaryev Monastery on the left bank of the Volga River from the mid-16th century to 1816. Following a massive fire in 1816, it was moved to Nizhny Novgorod, but for some decades thereafter it still was commonly referred to as Makariev Trade  Fair. It attracted many foreign merchants all over the World.

This is SketchUp model of the main building of NNTF.

The Nizhny Novgorod (former Makarevchkaya)Trade Fair  (NNTF) (1824).

I will quote below what  was written  about   Nizhny Novgorod Fair in 19^th century   by well-known American writer Suzanne Massie  in her remarkable book “ Land of Firebird - The Beauty of Old Russia”. Mr.  Irwin Well   wrote about this book in Chicago Tribune “ It stuns the reader with the richness, variety, and beauty of East Slavic creativity.”  

Adrian Fedorovich Timofeev participation in the reconstruction in 1922 of the historical Nizhny Novgorod Fair during the NEP (New Economic Policy) Era in Soviet Russia (1921-1928).

Makaryev's  Fair (Makarevskaya Jarmarka) was the Greatest Fair in Russia held annually every July near Makaryev Monastery on the left bank of the Volga River from the mid-16th century to 1816. Following a massive fire in 1816, it was moved to Nizhny Novgorod, but for some decades thereafter it still was commonly referred to as Makariev Fair. It attracted many foreign merchants all over the would.
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       Makaryev's  Fair ( Nizhny Novgorod Fair later) was the greatest Trade  Fair in Imperial Russia.

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I  participated in the reconstructionin in  1922  of the Historical Nizhny Novgorod Fair during the NEP (New Economic Policy) Era as a representative of the State Bank of Russia.

 Nizhny Novgorod Fair  was completely destroyed during the revolution and the sivil war in Russia (1917-1922). See the pictures below.

Anfisa Antonovna Kramskaya started to service at the Central Bank of the Credit Unions System of the Russian Empire on Nevsky Prospect, 59.

My bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna  Kramskaya  graduated from Bestuzhev Courses in 1913 and started to work in St. Petersburg in  the Central Bank of  the Credit Unions System on  Nevsky Prospect 59.

This is Google Earth 3D model of 59, Nevsky Prospect  before reconstruction in 2010.
This bank was a part of the Credit Unions System of the the Russian Empire.

The  Credit Unions System of  the Russian Empire started to work on 29 March 1864.

The total turnover for the first year was 20.5 million rubles. In the  next sixth year of the  activity  of the   Credit Unions System of the Russian Empire (1869) turnover reached 1.069.66 million rubles.

I was awarded by Certificates of the State Domestic Loan of 1917 for 1000 rubles.

I worked as  the trustee of the Moscow Branch of the Siberian Trade Bank in 1917-1918. The office of Moscow Branch of our Bank was on Ilinka Street.

See the post: My work in the Moscow office of The Siberian Trade Bank  in the vicinity of famous building of The Moscow Exchange.

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  I worked  hard and was very honest, careful  and diligent  employee.

   I prevented the fabrication of  the   falsified check for 320 thousand rubles (800,000.00 US dollars)  in January 1917.

See the post: Attempt of stealing of 320,000 rubles (800,000.00 US dollars) from the  Moscow branch of the Siberian Trade Bank  in January 1917.

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My bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna Kramskaya graduated from Bestuzhev Courses in 1913 and started to work in Commercial Bank in St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt 59.

       My bride Miss Anfisa Antonovna  Kramskaya  graduated from  Bestuzhev Courses in 1913 and started to work in Commercial Bank in St. Petersburg on Nevsky Prospekt 59.

      The Bestuzhev Courses  were the largest and most prominent women's higher education institution in Imperial Russia. 

The institute opened its doors in 1878. It was named after Konstantin Bestuzhev-Ryumin, the first Director. The most famouse  professors  of the Bestuzhev Courses were   Alexander Borodin, Faddei Zielinski, Dmitry Mendeleyev, Ivan Sechenov, and Sergey Platonov. A building for Bestuzhev Courses on the 10th line of Vasilevsky Island  was built in 1885 on a draft of Academician of  Architecture A. Krasovsky. 

Bestuzhev courses in St. Petersburg. 1878-1918

The history of the Kuznetsky Most street in the center of Moscow.

Kuznetsky Most  is the  street in the center of  Moscow, This street  runs from Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street to Lubyanka Street. The name (literally Blacksmith's Bridge) refers to the 18th century bridge over Neglinnaya River.

The is Kuznetsky Most street in the XVIII century. 

This is SketchUp model of old building of Trading House Muir and Mirrielees which was opened on Kuznetsky Most street in 1892.

My propaganda work in St. Petersburg in 1902-1905 among the workers, female students and soldiers of the General Staff.

I did  a propaganda work among the workers and soldiers in St. Petersburg.  I was a 
Marxist still at school , but I tolerated for other revolutionary organizations, as long as they are called on to the  socialism and actively fought against the autocracy.

 I was a Marxist but   standing closest to the Social Democrats.  No one had heard  about  the Bolsheviks in the 1902-1905 in St. Petersburg. On the activity of the struggle against tsarism my sympathies were with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and the Narodnaya Volya Party.

The program of these parties are provided for the terrorist struggle against tsarism and  socialization not only of all the factories, but also the socialization of all land and confiscation of the landlords real estate.

All my comrades among the revolutionary students were the Social Democrats.

My best comrades were two brothers of  Grigoriev, Nik  Wittmann,  Peter Malynin. – All of them were the students of Technological, Mining or Railway Universities in St. Petersburg.

The revolutionary organization gave me the  connection to  the workers and students. I got for  practice study and conducting  self-study two groups of workers of different plants, as well as female students (kursistok). Among these kursistok was the girl student and my future wife Kramskaya Anfisa Antonovna - a student of the Higher Women's (Bestuzhev) courses on Vasiljevsky  Island.

Narodnaya Volya party members gave me a group of soldiers, most from the  General Staff of the Imperial Army. 

More information about General Staff buildinf is in the post "My propaganda work with the soldiers of the General Staff and the describtion of the building in which they served" of this blog.

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The main headquarter of  the  General Staff was located in the heart of St. Petersburg on the Palace square opposite the Winter Palace.

It was impossible to assemble, and to carry out the revolutionary activities in the building of the General Staff in front of the Winter Palace and the soldiers one by one gathered and came to practice to  my rented apartment.
          The General Staff Building at  present time.

The history of the Petrovka street.

Petrovka street  is one of the main and oldest streets in the center of Moscow.

It starts  about  1/2 mile from Kremlin and Red Square. It received its name for Petrovsky Monastery  founded in the late XIV century. The name Petrovka  was used since the beginning of the XVII century and since then has never changed. This is  rare for the historic streets of downtown of Moscow.

Petrovka Street and the Petrovsky Monastery in the late XIX century.

Attempt of stealing of 320,000 rubles (800,000.00 US dollars) from the Moscow branch of the Siberian Trade Bank in January 1917.

I worked as  the trustee of the Moscow Branch of the Siberian Trade Bank in 1917-1918. The office of Moscow Branch of our Bank was on Ilinka Street.

See the post: My work in the Moscow office of The Siberian Trade Bank  in the vicinity of famous building of The Moscow Exchange.
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I worked  hard and was very honest, careful  and diligent  employee.
   I prevented the fabrication of  the   falsified check for 320 thousand rubles (800,000.00 US dollars)  in January 1917.

There was an article about this incident in the Bulletin of the Moscow city hall and the Metropolitan Police on February 1, 1917 № 26

My work in the Moscow branch of The Siberian Trade Bank next to the famous building of the Moscow Exchange.

Moscow office of the Siberian Trade Bank where I worked in 1917-1918 was on  Ilyinka Street near Moscow  Exchange Builbing. 

                           This is 3D model of Moscow  Exchange Builbing.

During my work at the Moscow office of the Siberian Trade Bank I prevent  the theft     of 320,000 rubles (800,000.00 US dollars)   in January 1917.
1.     See the post "  Attempt of stealing  of 320,000 rubles (800,000.00 US dollars) from the  Moscow  Branch of the Siberian Trade Bank  in January 1917" in this blog.

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My work on the St. Petersburg Stock and Commodity Exchange, and the history of the St.Petersburg Exchange on Basil Island.

You can look at SketchUp model of The Old Saint Petersburg  Exchange  by following  this link:

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While working at the  Siberian Trade Bank  at Nevsky Prospekt, 44 I have often had to visit the St. Petersburg;s Stock and Commodity Exchange.

The history of Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg (This is the street on which I reached my Siberien Trade Bank (Nevsky, 44) every day from Nicholas Railroad Station).

Nevsky Avenue (Prospect) is the main street in the city of St. Petersburg, Russia. Planned by Peter the Great as beginning of the road to Novgorod and Moscow, the avenue runs from the Admiralty to the Moscow Railway Station and, after making a turn at Vosstaniya Square, to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
The chief sights include the  Stroganov Palace, the huge neoclassical Kazan Cathedral, 

This is SketchUp 3D model of the  Kazan Cathedral.

the Art Nouveau Bookhouse (Dom Knigi), Elisseeff Emporium, half a dozen of 18th-century churches, a monument to Catherine the Great,  the Anichkov Bridge with its horse statues and much more. The feverish life of the avenue was described by Nikolai Gogol in his story "Nevsky Prospekt". Fyodor Dostoevsky often employed the Nevksy Prospekt as a setting within his works, such as "Crime and Punishment" and "The Double: A Petersburg Poem".

My propaganda work with the soldiers of the General Staff and the description of the building in which they served.

I did  a propaganda work among the workers and soldiers In St. Petersburg.  
It was impossible to assemble, and to carry out the revolutionary activities in the building of the General Staff in front of the Winter Palace and the soldiers one by one gathered and came to practice to  my rented apartment.

More information about my propaganda work is in post "

My propaganda work in St. Petersburg in 1902-1905 among the workers, female students and soldiers of the General Staff" in this blog.

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The description of General Staff Building is below.

The building was designed  in 1819-1829. It consists of two wings, which are separated by a tripartite triumphal arch. It  commemorating the Russian victory over  Napoleon in 1812. The arch links Palace Square through Bolshaya Morskaya St. to Nevsky Prospekt. The western wing now hosts the headquarters of the  Western Military District of the Russian Army. The eastern wing was transferred to the Hermitage Museum in 1993.

                    This is the view of Palace Square and the  General Staff Building

                                           in St. Petersburg. Russia.

You can see the Google Earth model of this building on:

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The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia was the official residence of Russian monarchs from 1732 to 1917.

The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia was the official residence of Russian monarchs from 1732 to 1917. It is Situated between the Palace Embankment and the Palace Square. 

You can look at SketchUp model of  The Winter Palace. 3D model   is located at this link:  http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=6d399a19103c75b7f63c51170ab64ef3&prevstart=0 

My studies at the Imperial University and the historic building of the Twelve Collegia - St. Petersburg Imperial University (St. Petersburg State University now).

I was a student of Mathematics Department of  St. Petersburg Imperial University in 1900-1913. 

Visiting  of the University was not necessary for students.  We have established the timetable of visiting our classes  ourselves. The students  could not visit there university  over the years.  I had not practical classes on my Department  of  Mathematics in St. Petersburg.

It  was very interesting to study at the Imperial University  and I wanted to be a good mathematician.

The Saint Petersburg Imperial  University Seal

The interrogation in the court after my jail in the Kiev’s Lukyanivska prison after participation in the Congress of the Russian Socialist and Revolutionaries. Mrs. Yulia Tymoshenko is the most famous prisoner in Lukyanivska prison now.

 I was arrested in Kiev on  04   December 4, 1905. I was arrested at the Congress of the Russian Socialist Revolutionaries party.

All Russian Revolutionaries were very encouraged  and feel them more free after the Imperial Manifesto of October 17.

The  armed insurrection began at this time in Moscow.

There were only three political prisoners at the time of our arrest in the Kiev’s  Lukyanovskaya prison.

The general view of Lukyanovka (Lukyanovskaya prison in Kiev, Ukraine)  during my imprisonment.

My jail in the Kiev’s Lukyanivska prison after participation in the Congress of the Russian Socialist and Revolutionaries. Mrs. Yulia Tymoshenko is the most famous prisoner in Lukyanivska prison now.

 I was arrested in Kiev on  04   December 1905. I was arrested at the Congress of the Russian Socialist Revolutionaries party.

All Russian Revolutionaries were very encouraged  and feel them more free after the Imperial Manifesto of October 17.

Ilia Perin's picture "Manifesto of October 17".

The  armed insurrection began at this time in Moscow.

There were only three political prisoners at the time of our arrest in the Kiev’s  Lukyanovskaya prison. The prison was overcrowded after our arrests. We organized a boycott of the prison’s Chief Mr. Malitsky for  his abuse of prisoners.

After his appearance in any of the prison cells we began to shout “You are the murderer and  executioner! Get out!”.
Some  information of this post is taken from the diary of Adrian Fedorovich  Timofeev(1882-1954) - mathematician, socialist, revolutionary, financier and banker.
The full  text of diary  (in Russian) is on
http://opentextnn.ru/history/familisarchives/Timofeyevs_family_Archives/Adrian_Timofeev

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The interrogation in the  court after my  jail in  the Kiev’s  Lukyanovskaya prison   after participation in the Congress of the Russian Socialist and Revolutionaries.

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My work in St. Petersburg in the Siberian Commercial Bank on Nevsky Prospect, 44.

I was hired in the Siberian Commercial Bank in 1915 after the graduation  from the  Mathematical Department  of the St. Petersburg Imperial University in 1913.

This is SketchUp model of the Siberian Commercial Bank on Nevsky 44  now. (2012).

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I have already had the experience of working in  the bank. I worked as  the Assistant of the  Head of Department at the Central Bank of  the Credit Unions System. I was  entitled to  sign all finansial documents. This bank was a part of the Credit Unions System of the the Russian Empire. I worked there for three years (1913-1915). This bank was on Nevsky Prospect 59-61 in St. Petersburg too.
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     Anfisa Antonovna  Kramskaya  started to service at the Central Bank of  the Credit Unions System of the Russian Empire on Nevsky Prospect, 59.

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This is the photo of me on my working  place at the Siberian Commercial Bank (1915).

My studies at the Imperial Universities in Kiev and St. Petersburg and my work in the Siberian Commercial Bank in St. Petersburg and Moscow (1898-1918)

  I was a student of   Kiev’s  Imperial University of St. Vladimir in 1898-1900  and I was a student of Mathematics Department of  St. Petersburg Imperial University in 1900-1913 too.

                             This is 3D model of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine.