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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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 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). 

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.

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 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).