Alexey Mikhailovich Putintsev

Background

Alexey Mikhailovich Putintsev was born on January 10, 1880 in the village of Staraya Khvorostan of the Korotoyak district, Russian Federation into a family of hereditary clergy. Alexey had a younger brother Ivan and three sisters.

Education

Alexey Mikhailovich graduated from the Voronezh Theological School, and in 1901 he ended the Voronezh Theological Seminary. But in the choice of profession, he moved away from family traditions, since from his youth he was internally immersed in his particular world, wrote down folk tales and poems. And therefore he entered the Slavon Russian department of the Faculty of History and Philology of Yuryevsk University (now University of Tartu).

In his student years he continued to live with an interest in poetry, folklore, ethnography, and was engaged in literary work. Over the last three years of study (1904-1906) he has published 31 articles - in the publications of Voronezh, Kazan, Yuriev, Vilna. Most of them were devoted to creativity, correspondence, publication of works of the poet Ivan Nikitin.

Career

After the university, the work of Alexey Mikhailovich began in high schools and real schools. In 1906-1918, he was a teacher in secondary schools of the cities of Tsaritsyn, Samara, Kazan, Kamyshin. Then Alexey Mikhailovich worked as teacher of the school in the village of Levaya Rossosh of Korotoyak district (1918-1920). Then Putontsev was a lecturer, associate professor, professor of the Department of Russian Literature of the Voronezh State University (1920-1930).

Alexey Mikhailovich was the organizer and the first head (1924-1930) of the Museum of Literature of the Voronezh Territory named after I.S. Nikitin (now it's the memorial house-museum of I.S. Nikitin). He was unreasonably repressed (1930) in the so-called "local history case", sentenced to 5 years of forced labor camps (he was in Solovki and in Svirlag). After that, Alexey Mikhailovich worked as researcher of the library, professor of the Oryol State Pedagogical Institute (1933-1935), professor of the Perm State Pedagogical Institute (1936), Tambov State Teacher's Institute (since 1936). Putintsev is an author of over 200 publications, including works.

Membership

• Voronezh Scientific Archival Commission , Voronezh

  1906

• Russian Geographical Society , Russian Federation

  1913

Connections

In Novocherkassk, Alexei Mikhailovich met with Maria Boreysha, a teacher of foreign languages, a graduate of the Moscow Institute of Noble Maidens. They got married, in 1909 in Kazan, they had a daughter, Maria. He was father-in-law of Pavel Alekseevich Cherenkov.

Spouse:

Maria Boreysha

Brother:

Ivan Mikhailovich Putintsev