Background
Tikhon Mitrofanovich was born on the 5th of August, 1883 in Russian Federation into the clergy family.
Tikhon Mitrofanovich was born on the 5th of August, 1883 in Russian Federation into the clergy family.
He graduated from the Voronezh Theological Seminary (1904), Saint Petersburg Theological Academy (1908), Saint Petersburg Archaeological Institute (1908).
Tikhon Mitrofanovich Oleynikov was a teacher and chairman of the school in Voronezh (1918-1920). Researcher at the provincial archives, senior curator of the provincial museum (1920-1929), at the same time teacher of the Voronezh branch of the Moscow Archaeological Institute (1920-1922). Lecturer at the Voronezh State University (since 1929).
From the second half of the 1930s, he worked as a history teacher at a school in the village of Semiluki.
Oleinikov's local lore activity before the revolution proceeded within the framework of the Central Historical and Archival Commission: Clerk (1910), Acting Chairman (1912), Chairman (1913). Editor of three issues of "Voronezh antiquities". Engaged in local church history XVII-XIX centuries. The largest work is the article consisting of 10 chapters "Voronezh Bishop’s House in the 17th and 18th Centuries," which traced the spread of Christianity to the Don, the spiritual and economic activities of the diocese, the life of the clergy. He published descriptions of the Valuisky Assumption Monastery and one of the churches of the Rossosh settlement, introduced the diary of the gymnasium teacher N.M. Savostyanov, sought materials for the biography of the poet A.P. Serebryansky and the genealogy of the Chekhov family.
Author of one of the first in Voronezh articles on the works of I.A. Bunin (1912). In the 1920s, it was rarely published, it was mainly concerned with the history of the peasantry. One of the editors of the book "By native land" (1928), for which he wrote generalizing essays on the history of the province.
Unreasonably repressed in 1930 in the so-called "local history case".
