Background

Alexander Prugavin was born on June 11, 1850 in Arkhangelsk, in the family of a supervisor of public schools in the Arkhangelsk province.

Education

From 1869 Alexander Stepanovich studied at the Moscow Petrovsky Agricultural and Forestry Academy.

Career

In 1871 Alexander Stepanovich was a witness in the case of Nechaev. In the same year he was exiled to the Arkhangelsk province for participation in the revolutionary student unrest. In January 1873, for health reasons, he was transferred to Voronezh. There Alexander Stepanovich organized a conspirator's circle, consisting of supervised persons, including S.S. Shashkov.

In October 1873 Alexander Stepanovich was sent to the town of Korotoyak, where he was living in exile until August 1877 (held the position of the district council secretary, clerk of the military presence), after which he was again sent to the Arkhangelsk province. During his stay in Voronezh and Korotoyak, he was published in the Voronezh newspapers. From 1877 he studied Old Belief and sectarianism.

After October 1917, he participated in a white movement in Siberia. He died of typhus in the Bolshevik prison.

Alexander Stepanovich is the author of many works, including books: "Religious Outcasts" (Moscow, 1906), "In Casemates: Essays and Materials on the History of Russian Prisons" (St. Petersburg, 1909), "About L. Tolstoy and Tolstoyan movement" (Moscow, 1911), "Unacceptable world" (Moscow, 1918).

Works

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  • Monastyirskiya Turmyi Borbe s Sektantstvom: K Voprosu o Vosmeroterpimosti

    (Russian Edition)

    1923
  • Zakony i spravochnyia sviedienia po nachal'lnomu narodnomu obrazovaniiu

    (Russian Edition)

    1898
  • Requests of the People and Responsibilities of Intellectuals in the Field of Education and Training

    (Russian Edition)

    1895
  • Die Inquisition der Russisch-Orthodoxen Kirche

    (German Edition)

    1923

Membership

• Grand Orient of Russia’s Peoples