Traube Mikhail Mikhailovich
1. Photo by Traube M.M., St. Petersburg. (1 sheet, electronic copy)
2. Photograph of Traube M.M. in military uniform. (1 p., electronic copy)
Names (1)
Taube Mikhail Mikhailovich
Born in 1894 in Gatchina, St. Petersburg Governorate, into a noble family. In 1912, after graduating from high school, he entered the law faculty of St. Petersburg University. In 1916 he was drafted into the army, served as a junior battery officer in an artillery division. In 1918 he was drafted into the Red Army, demobilized in 1922. He entered service at the Optina Pustyn Museum as a custodian of the monastery library's book collection, where he worked until 1925. During this period, he converted from Lutheranism to Orthodoxy and took monastic vows with the name Agapit. Lived in the city of Kozelsk, Kaluga Governorate. Arrested on June 16, 1927 by the Kaluga Provincial Department of the OGPU. Sentenced on December 19, 1927 by a Special Conference of the OGPU Collegium under Art. 58-10 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 3 years in a concentration camp. By the Resolution of the Special Conference of the OGPU Collegium of 23.05.1930, he was sentenced to 3 years of exile in the Northern Territory. In exile, he lived near Arkhangelsk, in the village of Anisimovo, Zaostrovsky Village Council . He was arrested again on 23.01.1931. Sentenced on 02.12.1931 by the Special Conference of the OGPU Collegium of the Northern Territory. under Art. 58-10, 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 3 years of imprisonment. In custody in the Mariinsky camps in Siberia. After his release, he lived in Orel. He died on 18.07.1936. He was rehabilitated on 31.08.1989 and by the Prosecutor's Office of the Kaluga Region on 30.03.1995.
