Residents' Participance in the Celebration of the Tobolsk Province
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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Siberian Federal University Digital Repository Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences 12 (2013 6) 1787-1799 ~ ~ ~ УДК 93/99 Residents’ Participance in the Celebration of the Tobolsk Province in Tercentenary of Romanovs’ House Alexander А. Valitov* and Igor S. Tomilov Tobolsk Complex Scientific Station UB RAS 15 Ac. Yuri Osipov, Tobolsk, 626150 Russia Received 06.06.2013, received in revised form 09.06.2013, accepted 02.11.2013 The purpose of this article is the research devoted to celebration in the Tobolsk province of the tercentenary of Romanovs’ house. Besides, participation and a contribution of inhabitants of this region in anniversary events at all-imperial level are noted. Assistance of the population of the Tobolsk province in preparation and carrying out actions of various character – from secular to religious and from regional to nation-wide is revealed. The contribution of the authorities of edge, his inhabitants is shown. The trip to St. Petersburg of archpriest Dimitry Smirnov with a gift of the Abalaksky icon for emperor Nikolay II from inhabitants of the Tobolsk province is also colourfully and brightly described, his personal moods and experiences are shown. At last, reflection is found and influence of this event in the general context of celebrations, and value of anniversary for all estates of the Tobolsk province is in detail opened. Thus, in four years prior to falling of the imperial power in Russia, the nation was fastened by three eyelids of monarchic traditions. As experiment of Western Siberia shows, most fully it was shown in the provinces remoted from the center. Keywords: anniversary, Romanovs’ house, the Tobolsk province, the Abalaksky icon, the Tobolsk delegation, the siberian and Tobolsk diocese, an imperial family. Work performed under the project of young scientists and graduate students TKNS UB RAS 2013 (№ M-G-13-1). Introduction society and the state is literally covered by the In public life late imperial Russia the Jubilee fever» (Tsimbayev, 2005). But on the events have come to occupy an important place other hand, one of the members of the imperial dedicated to anniversaries and memorials of family, watching the celebration in 1913, recalled: famous historical events. «I got the impression that the anniversary of Beginning of XX century was marked by the Romanov’s House passed without much a series of celebrations of various kinds and enthusiasm ... Of course, in the theater the invited sizes. The researcher Cymbaev K.N. noted: audience shouted “Hurrah”, the band played a «The constant celebration of important dates is hymn, but there was no mood. Everything was a feature of russian life of this period, when the state-owned, there was no feeling that everybody © Siberian Federal University. All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: [email protected] – 1787 – Alexander А. Valitov and Igor S. Tomilov. Residents’ Participance in the Celebration of the Tobolsk Province… of Russia unanimously celebrates his dynasty» attempt to examine his views. And anniversary’s (Konstantinovich, 1955: 94). celebrations passes reference. However, a weak At that time there were not only the base documentary research strikes. The work anniversaries of major historical events in is based mainly on the works of 1960-1970’s, Russia, usually organized by the state. Various memories or diaries dignitaries, who treated political, social, scientific, cultural, commercial the Emperor biased or relatives. Certain factual interests have used the smallest reasons for material about the reign of Nicholas II gives the celebrating received a certain resonance. In the work of A.M. Anfimova (Anfimov, 1994). last years before the First World War noncircular Of foreign researchers Richard Wortman anniversaries were often widely celebrated addressed primarily to study anniversaries. The annually tens such as the 40th anniversary of fundamental work «Scenarios of power» belongs the founder of a scientific aerodynamics N.E. to him, which remains one of a kind work, Zhukovsky, the 30th anniversary of the funeral detailed coverage of the ceremonial and festive of General M.D. Skobelev or 45th anniversary of traditions of imperial Russia. One of the chapters the founding the Katkovsky’s school in Moscow. of this study specifically devoted to the 300th Domestic and foreign historians anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, in which underestimated phenomenon of anniversaries of the author describes in detail the celebration – late imperial Russia in the early XX century. from training activities and erecting monuments In contrast to european celebrations, which to the actual celebrations in St. Petersburg and have been studied in detail, the russian almost had other cities (Wortman, 1989). In addition, to the no interest by historians. Dealt with only certain problem of perception and processing of military aspects of the phenomenon, mainly related to the and historical experience in 1912 an article war of 1812 (Nekrasov, Zemtsov, 1969). In soviet german historian K. Schneider is devoted «100 historiography only in the article by Dyakova years after Napoleon» (Schneider, 2001). The there is mention of the century in the battle of religious aspect of the anniversary celebrations Borodino in the total number of anniversaries in and the Church’s role in these events in detail relation to their impact on the pre-revolutionary and thoroughly covered in a number of papers of Russian historiography (Dyakov, 1981). This K.N. Tsimbaev «The Orthodox Church and state theme had not received further development anniversaries of Imperial Russia» (Tsimbayev, of until now. One may note only one section of 2005). However, in all these works the regional the monograph «Russia at the beginning of XX aspect of the anniversary celebrations affected century», dedicated to the celebrations of 1903- only indirectly, and the role of the province in the 1913 years (Ulyanova, 2002). Built on a wealth of celebration of the tercentenary of the Romanov facts and describing all the major anniversaries of dynasty has never been the subject of a special the century, this work is only a general overview study. of the topic. «No one of the previous anniversaries One of the first major research projects in excited so many different aspirations and the newest national historical literature devoted hopes, as the threehundredth anniversary of to Emperor Nicholas II, is the study of B.V. the Romanov dynasty – hopes that the majority Ananyich and R.Sh. Ganelin (Ananyich, Ganelin, remained unfulfilled»1. Symbolically, it is the 1993). The merit of the authors of a detailed anniversary fell on the last peaceful year of the account of the monarch’s biography and an Russian Empire. – 1788 – Alexander А. Valitov and Igor S. Tomilov. Residents’ Participance in the Celebration of the Tobolsk Province… The jubilee became popular. The patriotic In celebration of the anniversary are there fervency felt everywhere. The threehundredth three major stages – the celebration in St. anniversary of the Romanovs’ dynasty was not Petersburg in February 1913, «pilgrimage» of perceived in society only as a celebration of the Nicholas II and his family to the historical places ruling dynasty and its local environment. This of the Romanov dynasty in the Volga cities in anniversary is an aware society as extremely May 1913, staying in Moscow in late May 1913 important milestone in the history of the country (Russia at the beginning of XX century, 2002: for which the last 300 years have been a special 560). period of statehood. Historian A.E. Presnyakov The population of the province of Tobolsk wrote, in the preface to the anniversary six- participated in the preparation and within the volume «Three Centuries», that «under the festivities. authority of the first Romanovs have been Of the three largest cities in the province of formed and are the main features of the Russian Tobolsk a special delegation was elected that was state and social class, which dominated until the to directly represent the region at the celebration liberation reforms of Alexander II», followed by of the tercentenary of the Romanov dynasty. The a period of «fighting the old with the new in the structure of the head of the deputation entered Russian state and public life» started releasing the city: Tobolsk – S.M. Trusov, Kurgan – the peasants as serious slow transformation F.F. Shwetov and Tyumen – P.I. Nikolsky2. of Russia into a constitutional state (Three On February 10, 1913 in St. Petersburg went centuries, 1991: 9). Prominent royal bureaucrat, delegation to participate in the celebrations and Governor of Moscow in 1904-1912 years congratulations. Tobolsk delegation drove with V.F. Dzhunkovsky expressed the same thought them for presentation to the Sovereign Abalaksky this way: «For three hundred years Russia has icon of God’s Mother, which was set up to collect made the work of thousands of years, turned into donations for the entire province3. In addition to two light and from obscurity Moscovy turned these persons on the anniversary of the Romanov into an irreversible omnipotent great power dynasty the representative of the Muslim of the Russian empire. Romanovs. Especially population T.S. Aytmuhametov drove. it happend with the accession of Peter. Russia For the prevention of disorder and drunken moved heroic step forward and by enriching and revelry Tobolsk City Council banned Thursday