ИЗ ЖИЗНИ ТОМСКОГО СТУДЕНТА: ПИСЬМА К.К. БЕЛКИНА К НАРОДОВОЛЬЦУ Н.А. МОРОЗОВУ (1916 Г.)
Реконструируется биография студента медицинского факультета Императорского Томского университета Кронида Константиновича Белкина, который с 1916 г. вел переписку с народовольцем Н.А. Морозовым. Письма К. Белкина, его личные дела и материалы периодической печати дают возможность не только восстановить его биографию, но и рассмотреть в целом повседневную жизнь сибирского студенчества накануне русской революции 1917 г. ; In the article the everyday life of Siberian students on the eve of the 1917 Russian Revolution is reconstructed on the basis of the letters of a student of the Faculty of Medicine of Imperial Tomsk University, K.K.Belkin, to the future honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Science, a member of the NarodnayaVolya [People's Freedom], N.A. Morozov, which are kept in the archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, of the personal files of the student and of periodical press materials. They provide information about student life, activities of public student and scientific organizations of Tomsk. It is noted that N.A. Morozov's visit to Tomsk in October 1915, during which he became acquainted with K.K. Belkin, was a significant event in the cultural life of the university city. According to the letters, there were other events in the life of the student after the departure of N.A. Morozov from Tomsk. Letters describe K.K. Belkin's participation in the All-Russian agricultural census in Altai and in Semipalatinsk Oblast, and mark the position of the local indigenous population. The details of the Tomsk University life are also reflected in the letters, namely, the political sympathies of the new university administration. K.K. Belkin together with professor N.I. Bereznegovsky interceded for establishing a publishing house at the university. Participating in meetings of the Tomsk Society for the Study of Siberia and the Society of Practitioners, K.K. Belkin interceded for numerous public student organizations that existed in Tomsk. However, the university administration, in his opinion, did not favor the idea to set up a student cooperative. In the article the fate of K.K. Belkin is traced, too. In 1917, he joined the Socialist-Revolutionary Party and began to take an active part in the life of the party. During the Civil War he served in the army of Kolchak. After the restoration of the Soviet power in Tomsk at the end of 1919, K.K. Belkin was arrested twice for participating in anti-Soviet activities. Since 1923, he had been serving a sentence in various camps, including the Solovki prison camp, where he helped patients because he had studied at the Faculty of Medicine. In 1938, K.K. Belkin was arrested and executed on charges with counter-revolutionary activity and espionage. And only in 1992 he was rehabilitated. The article emphasizes that K.K. Belkin's letters expand our understanding of the pre-revolutionary life of Siberian students.