Grigory Timofeev Biography

Timofeev Grigory Timofeevich graduate of the Simbirsk Chuvash Teacher School, teacher, enlightener of the Chuvash people. He worked in various positions in Siberia, Tataria, Simbirsk and Orenburg provinces. Cheboksary moved to the city of a writer painstakingly collected fairy tales, legends, traditions, proverbs and riddles, watched the life of the population, rites and customs.

Part of his work - “images of the motives of Chuvash folk songs and texts for them” was published in the city for the first time the whole essay of the author was published in the city of 30 years later, in the city of the Chuvash writer and ethnographer G. during such forced travels, many manuscripts, letters, personal documents were lost. In the Central Statearchy of the Chuvash Republic, a small part of the materials related to the period of his life in Cheboksary and Tsivilsk Grigory Timofeevich Timofeev was born on January 21 according to the new style - February 2, the city of the Cheboksary district of the Kazan province.

Having studied for 5 years in the Simbirsk Chuvash Teacher School, he passed an exterior exam for a teacher in the Kazan Teacher's Seminary. He lived most of his life in the Chuvash village of Alseevo Buinsky district now enters Tatarstan: he worked as a teacher in years, in the priest of the church of the same village. He married an Alseevskaya girl Daria Nikiforovna. They subsequently born12 children, six of whom died in infancy.

Over the years in Alseevo, Timofeev painstakingly collected fairy tales, legends, traditions, proverbs and riddles, observed the life of the population, rites, customs. He worked as a teacher, then a priest in different places up to a year. Returning back to Alseevo, he worked as a priest for another two years. In the year he renounced the dignity, and moved to Cheboksary.

But we turn to archival documents. My education is the Simbirsk Chuvash Teacher School. He taught in a classroom and two -class former ministerial schools. Alseevo Burundukovsky volost of the Buin canton of G. about the work of the priest, although he renounced the dignity, it is better to keep silent. He did so. Here he has a salary of 42 rubles.

It must be said that the tselly of the republic was then experiencing difficult times: a weak material base, tightness and lack of premises, frequent change of personnel, and most importantly - the most difficult work: a huge array of unusual documents of pre -revolutionary institutions, which had to be put in order, described, systematize, but there was no competent specialists, even the presenter had only primary education.

And in the staff of the archive there were only 5 people. Grigory Timofeevich plunged into work with his mood. Despite the fact that he worked very little in the Centerchiva, it can be argued that he left his mark on the archive affair of Chuvashia. There is no doubt that it is not just rewritten, but compiled by it, based on its own understanding of the archival business, which, of course, will seem very naive to modern archivists, but for that time the note was quite relevant and contained a number of valuable proposals.

The temporary performance of duties was entrusted to the city of Timofeev as a representative of the Centerchiva participated at a meeting of the standard commission of the People's Commissariat of the Russian Academy of Sciences of the Workers' and Peasant Inspection of the CHOSSR, where the states of the centrality were approved in the amount of 6 units instead of the required 9 unit-the position of the head of the instructor with the duties of the instructor was added.

The workers of the Centerkhiv did not agree with this and continued to petition for the addition of another 2 units. But in the year they failed. Perhaps someone offended him, reproached the past? We can only guess. But, of course, routine stationery, bureaucracy of higher bodies did not satisfy the writer, the soul demanded creative work and, it seems, the hope of getting a translator in the CEC of the CASSR appeared.

We are talking about the positive reviews of the well-known scientist-turcologist N. Ashmarin, the scientist-ethnographer N. Nikolsky and the student of the Moscow Theological Academy A. Antonov, data in years. These reviews are known and published. And then, in June, the work of Timofeev highly appreciated and recommended the work of M. Petrov Tinehpi, who worked in the Central Museum and at the same time at the editorial and publishing collegium of the Chuvashgiz, one of the founders of the Chuvash Society for the Study of the Local Territory.

By the way, his fate is largely similar to the fate of Timofeev: also a pupil of the Yakovlevsky school, worked as a teacher and priest, and was repressed. We will pay tribute to the People's Commissar of Enlightenment of those years A. After all, if not for this step, the manuscript would probably be lost. Immediately after the dismissal from the Centarchiv, it was not possible to get a job.

But, judging by the documents, the work here did not work out.

Timofeev very often ached almost monthly sickness and even lay in the hospital. Documents do not negotiate much. Why did not previously be a sick person suddenly began to hurt so often? What is the need to reduce the staff of translators when the campaign is everywhere on the rootation of the apparatus and the paperwork in the Chuvash language is introduced? Is there any other, most likely, political reason?

As it turned out, there is.Timofeev in electoral rights. Apparently, he, as a former priest, was deprived of electoral rights in Alseevo. Therefore, he was forced to leave. And when at the end of the year in Chuvashia they began to prepare for the elections to the Soviets, it turned out that he was a lot of. A lot of effort and nerves were required to achieve justice - restoration in electoral rights.

And it is not surprising that Grigory Timofeevich fell ill at that time. But, it would seem, the mistake is fixed, now it can be accepted for any work. The label attached tightly. In the year he wandered from Siberia, completely went bankrupt, I have no homeland, nor settledness, nor a house-house, literally nothing, two months completely without a salary.

Life has come to a standstill. Thank you, the apartment in Kucheskaya is ready. After all these shakes with restoration in electoral rights, getting back to the trade union ticket, I am turning to you already with an annoying request: please arrange for some place, my century will be grateful. Where are we going to go now? There is no steamer, there is no money for yourself, there is no family.

Nikitina: He allowed the disgraced person to work as a teacher, but still away from the capital-in Tsivilsk. Timofeeva G. managed to hold out at this work until September 1. Dvorov-Hesemem, N. Kiryushin, N. Kuzmin, I. Kuzmin; K. Mamkova, E. Rodionov, V. Turkhan, E. Tsyfarkin, V. Petiterova, V.