Shchegolev, Pavel Eliseevich (1877-1931).

[TYPESCRIPT ON RUSSIAN SECRET ORGANIZATIONS] Original typescript drafts of Shchegolev’s manuscript on Russian secret political and literary organizations in the early nineteenth century.

[St. Petersburg]: ca. 1905. Loose folded leaves of typescript to rectos only, with pages measuring 35.5 × 22 cm. Pagination in pencil, occasional corrections as well as longer foreign passages added in ink. one section incomplete; light toning and dust soil; overall very good. Item #P003512

This collection of almost entirely unpublished and (as per our research) unknown typescript materials is devoted to the history of secret proto-revolutionary political and literary organizations in early nineteenth-century Russia. The manuscript consists of nine separate chapters, each based on extensive original research and of documentary character. Among the groups described are: “Obshchestvo literaturnykh prenii” and the secret societies of Sungurov (Moscow), Petrashevsky (St. Petersburg), Zavalishin (Moscow), the brothers Kritskii (Moscow) and others. According to our research, only one of the chapters appeared in print, under Pavel Shchegolev’s name (“Obshchestvo literaturnykh prenii” in Byloe, 1907, no. 5, pp. 149–151). We thus also attribute the remaining essays to Shchegolev, though it is unclear whether they were meant to be published separately or part of a book project. Byloe was the first legally published journal devoted to the history of the Russian revolutionary liberation movement, and it was co-edited by Shchegolev and the historian Vasiliy Bogucharskii. Despite being legal, Byloe was frequently targeted by the censors and Schegolev was eventually sentenced to three years in prison for various “anti-government” publications.

Schegolev (1877–1931) was a literary historian working on Alexander Pushkin; around 1905 he began researching Russian social movements, particularly the history of the so-called “liberation movement”. He was repeatedly exiled for participating in revolutionary events around the turn of the twentieth century; after the February Revolution he held a position in the Provisional Government. He helped analyze the archives of the Imperial Police Department and remained active as a historian of the Russian revolutionary movement.

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