Alexander Dubrovin

Dr. Alexander Dubrovin
Born	Дубровин, Александр Иванович 1855 Kungur,Kungursky Uyezd,Perm Governorate,Russian Empire
Disappeared	after April 29, 1921 Moscow
Status	Mentioned as alive in 1929
Body discovered	No
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	Russian Empire,RSFSR
Style	monarchism,antisemitism
Political party	Union of Russian People
Criminal charge(s)	organization ofpogroms,murders in 1905–17

Alexander Ivanovich Dubrovin(‹See Tfd›Russian:Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Дубро́вин) (1855,Kungur– unknown) was afar-rightpolitician in the Russian Empire, a leader of theUnion of the Russian People(URP).

Biography

A trained doctor, Dubrovin gave up his practice to concentrate on opposing what he saw as creepingliberalismin the Russian aristocracy, turning his own movement, theRussian Assembly,over to the newly formed URP in 1905, when he was appointed head of the new group's directorate.Bothanti-Semiticandanti-Masoniche believed in theZhidomasonstvo(Judeo-Masonic) conspiracy and took the lead in organising thepogromsof theBlack Hundreds.

Gaining a popular following amongst the peasants,petite bourgeoisieandlumpenproletariatfor hisdemagogy,Dubrovin sat in theState Duma of the Russian Empiredespite being a firm believer inabsolutismand before organising a failedboycottof the Third Duma in 1907.Closely involved in the trial ofMenahem Mendel Beilis,as later described inBernard Malamud's novelThe Fixer,Dubrovin himself fell foul of the law when his tendency towards violence saw him indicted for the murder of a fellow Duma member.

In the URP, Dubrovin was the leader of an extreme faction based around theRusskoe znamyanewspaper and in 1910, that became the base of his support when the majority faction of the URP fell underNikolai Markov.With Dubrovin somewhat lacking in charisma and seen as somewhat unbalanced, his faction fell into insignificance.

Death controversy

According toPhilip ReesDubrovin was shot in 1918 for his activities against theOctober Revolution.A number of other sources however place Dubrovin alive after this date and his actual date of death remains unresolved. On October 21, 1920 Dubrovin was arrested in Moscow byCheka.He was charged as an organizer ofpogroms,murders etc. in 1905—1917 when he was the chairman of URP.In their entirety thesecorpus delicti(components of crime) were qualified under theCriminal CodeArticle "the counter-revolutionary activity".

According to multiple Russian sources, since December 12, 1917, Dubrovin lived in Moscow and worked as a doctor in the 1st Lefortovo Soviet ambulance station. He was arrested by theAll-Russian Extraordinary Commission(Cheka) on October 21, 1920. The documents of the case indicate that Dubrovin “from 1905 to 1917 was the chairman of the" Union of the Russian People ", which fought against the liberation movement in Russia. On October 30, 1920, the accusation of counter-revolution was added to this and Dubrovin was personally interrogated members of the Presidium of the ChekaVyacheslav Menzhinsky,Martin Latsisand secretary B.M. Futoryan.

On November 1, 1920, the Special Department of the Cheka issued a conclusion that “the charge of Dr. Dubrovin Alexander Ivanovich in the organization before the revolution, is of murders, pogroms, insinuations, forgeries, striving with all their activities to strangle the liberation of Russia is proven" and the case was transferred to the Collegium of the Cheka with the proposal "the chairman of the Union of the Russian People AI Dubrovin - to be shot”.On December 29, 1920 he was sentenced to be shot by the Presidium of the Cheka by being "convicted of organizing murders and pogroms".However the exact date of execution is not known.

Dubrovin’s files atFSBarchives keep two consecutive death sentences dated December 29, 1920 and April 21, 1921 which indicates that at least one time Dubrovin’s appeal for amnesty was satisfied. No documental traces of the actual implementation of this sentence were found.Meanwhile, according to theSmall Soviet Encyclopediapublished in 1929Dubrovin was still alive by that date.

See also

• List of people who disappeared

Sources

• Репников А. В. (2007)."Мы все уничтожены, мы фактически разгромлены…" (русские монархисты накануне и после падения самодержавия)["…"(russian monarchists before and after the fall of the autocracy)](PDF).Известия высших учебных заведений.Поволжский регион. Гуманитарные науки. История (in Russian). Vol. 2.Saratov.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2011-08-18.Retrieved2010-07-01.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Макаров В. Г. (публ.) (2005).Следственное дело доктора Дубровина[Investigation in Dr. Dubrovin case]. Архив еврейской истории (in Russian). Vol. 2.ISBN9785824307412.