Vladimir Purishkevich
Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich (
After the February Revolution, Purishkevich was one of the only leaders of the Black Hundreds to remain politically active. He eventually joined the White movement and died from typhus in 1920.
Biography
Early career
Born as the son of a poor nobleman in
Purishkevich was a hardline supporter of
During the
When the first Russian women's congress convened in 1908, Purishkevich sent a letter to several of the participants calling it "an assembly of whores".[8][9] One of the recipients of the letter, Anna Filosofova, made the letter public and took Purishkevich to court; he was sentenced to one month in jail.[8]
Criticism of Rasputin
During
On 19 November, Purishkevich delivered a speech in the Duma that denounced Rasputin and the conduct of the government. He compared Rasputin with the "False Dmitri", and argued that Rasputin's influence over the tsarina had made him a threat to the empire.[12] He stated that the monarchy was becoming discredited:[13][14]
The Tsar's ministers who have been turned into marionettes, marionettes whose threads have been taken firmly in hand by Rasputin and the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna—the evil genius of Russia and the Tsarina... who has remained a German on the Russian throne and alien to the country and its people.[15]
He concluded that "While Rasputin is alive, we cannot win".[16]
Killing of Rasputin
Prince
On the evening of 16 December 1916, the conspirators gathered in the Moika Palace and eventually killed Rasputin.
A curious policeman on duty on the other side of the
They had planned to burn Rasputin's possessions. Sukhotin put on Rasputin's fur coat, rubber boots, and gloves. He left with Dmitri and Dr. Lazovert in Purishkevich's car,[20] which suggests that Rasputin had left the palace alive.[21] Because Purishkevich's wife refused to burn the fur coat and the boots in her small fireplace in the ambulance train, the conspirators went back to the palace with the larger items.
Yusupov and Dmitri were placed under house arrest in the Sergei Palace. The tsarina had refused to meet them but said that they could explain to her what had happened in a letter. Purishkevich assisted them and left the city to the Romanian front at ten in the evening. Because of his popularity, Purishkevich was neither punished nor exiled.[22]
Revolutionary Russia
During the February Revolution in 1917, many right-wingers were arrested but Purishkevich was tolerated by the government and so was "virtually the only former national Black Hundred leader to maintain an active political life in Russia after the tsar's downfall".[23] However, the revolution meant that Purishkevich initially had to moderate his politics. He called for the abolition of the Soviets, who were, in turn, calling for the abolition of the Duma.
In August 1917, he wanted a military dictatorship; he was arrested over the
At the time, Purishkevich was living in the Hotel Russia at
White Russia
After his release, he moved to White Army-controlled Southern Russia. There, during the Russian Civil War he published the monarchist journal Blagovest and returned openly to his traditional political stance of support for the monarchy, a unified Russia, and opposition to the Jews. In some of the towns occupied by the Volunteer Army, he gave lectures in which he denounced the British policy towards Russia. In 1918, he formed a new political party, the People's State Party, and called for an "open fight against Jewry";[27] the party collapsed after his death.
Vladimir Purishkevich died from
Reputation
Purishkevich was described by contemporary Russian politician
References
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- ^ Ronald C. Moe, Prelude to the Revolution: The Murder of Rasputin, p. 232. (Aventine Press, 2011).
- ^ a b c d Langer, Jack Fighting The Future: the doomed anti-revolutionary crusade of Vladimir Purishkevich Revolutionary Russia (journal) Vol. 9, No. 1 June 2006 P42
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- ^ E. Radzinsky, The Rasputin File, p. 434.
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- ^ Langer, Jack Fighting The Future: the doomed anti-revolutionary crusade of Vladimir Purishkevich Revolutionary Russia (journal) Vol 19, No.1 June 2006 P45
- ^ Kellogg, Michael The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945 Cambridge University Press (2005) p44
- ^ a b c Andrew Kalpaschnikoff, A Prisoner of Trotsky's, 1920
- ^ a b Irene Zohrab, "The Liberals among the forces of the Revolution: from the unpublished papers of Harold W. Williams". New Zealand Slavonic Journal, 20, (1986), 63-64.
- ^ Kellogg, Michael The Russian Roots of Nazism: White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917-1945 Cambridge University Press (2005) pp102-3
- ^ Out of My Past: Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov, p. 170.
- ^ Liubosh, S. B., Russkii fashist V. M. Purishkevich, Leningrad: Byloe Publishing House, 1925
- ^ Shenfield, Stephen Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies and Movements Routledge, 2015, p. 31
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- ^ "Семен РЕЗНИК: ВМЕСТЕ ИЛИ ВРОЗЬ? [WIN]". www.vestnik.com.
- "În căutarea lui Vladimir Purișchevici Partea 1: Sutele Negre (Ante-Primul Război Mondial)". 2 June 2017.
Sources
- Vladimir Pourichkevitch (1924) Comment j'ai tué Raspoutine. Pages de Journal. J. Povolozky & Cie. Paris. Translated and published as The murder of Rasputin (1985) Ardis.