Background
Nikolay Alexandrovich was born on June 1, 1862.
Nikolay Alexandrovich was born on June 1, 1862.
Nikolay Alexandrovich composed his first adventure novel and play as a twelve-year-old boy, in 13 he began to publish the manuscript magazine "Strela", and in 16 he published his first article in "Children's Reading" and even received a fee.
At the university Nikolay Alexandrovich studied at the natural faculty. He graduated with honors, while attending all the lectures at the Historical, Philological and Law faculties.
Nikolay Alexandrovich began to create his own library, only after graduating from the University in the 1880s. He took up any work of a corrector, to replenish it. And when he collected about 80 thousand books he gave all of them to "the League of education" in St. Petersburg.
Nikolay Alexandrovich opened his library on Bolshaya Podyacheskoe in St. Petersburg. The library became a base for workers of the Sunday schools who raised the first workers, propagandists, Marxist workers. In 1896, he was expelled from St. Petersburg to Ryazan. In 1901, he was arrested and deported for 2 years to the Crimea, in a village near Alushta - under police supervision.
In the first Russian revolution Nikolay Alexandrovich came as an SR. He actively wrote leaflets, numerous brochures, and, as a consequence, a reference to police surveillance in Novgorod. In 1907, he feeling disgust for politics, went to Switzerland and left the party of the Socialist-Revolutionaries. Also in Switzerland, he collected a library, where he lived for the last 40 years, (100 thousand volumes) enjoyed by all the Slavists of the world, all emigration. A Russian club emerged near Klaran in Montreux, at Rubakip. He had only one requirement for readers: a careful return of the books taken.
Nikolay Alexandrovich bequeathed his enormous library to Russia. The library now is in the RSL, making up a special fund - the "Rb" foundation.
Since 1930 Nikolay Alexandrovich began to receive a pension from the Soviet government. In addition, he got all the major Soviet periodicals and magazines, many books. Many outstanding scientists and writers gave their publications to Rubakin.
Nikolay Alexandrovich made a table shortly before his death: read - 250 thousand books; created - 49 large scientific works; collected - 230 thousand books; compiled and sent - 15 thousand programs for self - education; published - more than 350 articles in 115 periodicals. Hundreds of books have been edited, thousands of letters have been written.Two large unpublished novel found in the table. And all this - for a life of 84 years.
Quotations: Long live the book - the most powerful tool for the struggle for truth and justice.
An unusually solid, purposeful man, Nikolay Alexandrovich very loved books, but was not stingy bibliophile.
