As we recall, the First Duma lasted only 72 days and held just one session. New elections were held, resulting in the Second Duma, which existed from February 20 to June 3, 1907. This Duma differed little from the previous one, as the sharp confrontation with the Council of Ministers continued. It held only one session and remained in session for a full 102 days. Although, of course, compared to the 72 days of the First Duma, this was significantly better. Who, then, represented the Kharkiv Governorate and Kharkiv at that time? The reference book from the same publishing house I mentioned earlier can answer this question. So please pay attention—the Kharkiv deputies of the Second Convocation, of whom there were, as before, 11)
Mitrofan Kuzmich Popov
Trudovik was born in 1852.
A physician at the Vovchans’k District Zemstvo Hospital. He graduated from the medical school of Kharkiv University (1876). In 1904, the Vovchans’k Zemstvo Council celebrated M.K.’s 25th anniversary and named the hospital after him in his honor. He was a member of the Zemstvo Council and the City Duma.
Ilya Semenovich Pelipenko.
Trudovik was born in 1868.
A peasant from the Sumy volost and district. He attended a zemstvo school. He owns 1 desyatina and 10 kvadratnyh sazheni of land. He works as a farmer and drills wells as a foreman for a plumbing contractor in the city of Sumy.
Nikolai Petrovich Yenisherlov.
Born in (?) Pravyi.
Chairman of the Valkovo Zemstvo Council. Mechanical engineer. Graduate of the Moscow Technical School. Member of the Provincial Zemstvo. Former teacher at a real school. Organizer of the Valkovo branch of the “Union of the Russian People.”
Fedor Kuzmich Vasyutin.
Trudovik was born in 1877.
A peasant from the village of Drabyshevo, Limanskaya Volost, Izyum Uyezd. He learned to read and write from a nun and continued his education on his own. He served in the Life Guard Grenadier Regiment and took part in the Russo-Japanese War. He was discharged from the army with the rank of junior ensign. He is engaged in farming and runs a small business in his village.
Petr Richardovich Boguslavsky.
Born in 1854. Constitutional Democrat.
Retired captain. Graduated from a military gymnasium and the Mikhailovskoye Artillery School. Head of the 4th, and later the 3rd, district in the Kharkiv Uyezd. Member of the district Zemstvo council (since 1905). Delegate to the district and provincial Zemstvo assemblies.
Timofey Ivanovich Yarovoy.
Trudovik was born in 1857.
A peasant from the village of Tuchnoe, Tuchnyansky Volost, Lebedynsky Uyezd. He owns 2.25 desyatinas of land. He graduated from a rural school. He is a farmer. He serves as chairman of the volost court. He fought in the Russo-Turkish War.
Alexey Stepanovich Lopatin.
Trudovik was born in 1870.
A peasant from the village of Novo-Belenkaya in Starobil’s’k County. He graduated from a public school and runs a small business.
Moses Isaakovich Derevyanka.
Trudovik was born in 185.
A peasant (formerly a cantonist) from the village of Kuryachevka, Starobil’s’k District. Retired artilleryman. Graduated from a rural school. Works as a farmer. Veteran of the Russo-Turkish War. Recipient of the Order of St. George (3rd and 4th classes).
Ivan Petrovich Litvinov.
Trudovik was born in 1867.
A peasant from the village of Teylega, Zmiyevsky District. A wheelwright. Landless. He served his military service in the Warsaw Fortress Artillery, where he learned to read and write. Chairman of the volost court.
Pavel Maksimovich Rybalchenko.
Born in 1876. Social Democrat.
A factory worker in Sumy. He worked at the Sumy Machine-Building Workshops, a Belgian joint-stock company. He graduated from a parish school.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Poznansky.
Born in 1868. Left-handed.
Attorney-at-law. Graduated from Kharkiv Gymnasium No. 3 and the Law Faculty of Kharkiv University (1890). Secretary of the District Court. Member of the Bar Association since 1901. Defense attorney in many high-profile trials, such as the “Sinelnikov case.” He was imprisoned “for security reasons.” First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the 2nd convocation.
In the pages of the illustrated supplement to the 1907 edition of the newspaper *Novoye Vremya*, we find a very interesting piece—an extremely rare group photo of the Kharkiv deputies to the State Duma of the Second Convocation.
Front row, from left: A. S. Lopatin, P. M. Rybalchenko, N. N. Poznansky, M. K. Popov, T. I. Yarovoy. Behind them: I. I. Litvinov, F. K. Vasyutin, I. S. Pelipenko, M. I. Derevyanko.
Kharkiv deputies Petr Richardovich Boguslavsky and Nikolai Petrovich Yenisherlov are not pictured.
It is quite noteworthy that Boguslavsky belonged to the Cadet Party, while Yenisherlov belonged to the Right. Seven of the nine Kharkiv deputies pictured in this photograph, however, were members of the Trudoviks. The Trudovaya Group (unofficially known as the Trudoviki) was a Russian political organization that existed from 1906 to 1917.
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