Background
Vasily Ivanovich Anuchin was born on April 2, 1876 in Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
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Vasily Ivanovich Anuchin was born on April 2, 1876 in Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
In 1886 Vasily Ivanovich graduated from the parishional school, in 1891 from Krasnoyarsk Theological School. He entered the Tomsk Theological Seminary, but in 1896 according to his own petition, was expelled.
In 1897 Vasily Ivanovich moved to Saint Petersburg, where, after graduating from the Archaeological Institute, he worked at the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1905, he was one of the initiators and until 1909 a participant in expeditions to the Turukhansk region to study the language and life of the Yenisei dwellers. In 1910 in Saint Petersburg Vasily Ivanovich published and edited the magazine "Responses to Art life", where he published his small literary and critical articles devoted to modern satirical literature.
Since 1911 he lived in Tomsk, occasionally published in the "Siberian life", traveled with lectures, worked as a technician in a road construction detachment. Vasily Ivanovich spoke in Saint Petersburg as a representative of the Siberian regional cooperation.
In 1907 in Krasnoyarsk, he nominated himself for the 2nd State Duma from the party of the Esers, but did not pass the vote. After The February Revolution of 1917, a member and then deputy chairman of the Provisional Committee of Public Order and Security in Tomsk, chairman of the bureau of the Peasant Congress.
In May 1917 Vasily Ivanovich left the Socialist-Revolutionary Party. In 1923 he was administratively deported to Kazan, where until 1928 he taught at the university. From 1928 to 1941 he worked at the Samarkand Pedagogical Institute (now Samarkand State University).
