1955 - 2000
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1. Photo of Roginsky A.B. for documents (1 sheet, photograph).
1.1. Photo by Roginsky A.B. for documents (1 sheet, 3 copies, photograph).
2. Photo of Roginsky A.B., Dobkin A.I., Dedyulina S.V., 1977, (from left to right) (1 sheet, 2 copies, photograph).
3. Photograph by S.V. Dedyulin, A.B. Roginsky, A.I. Dobkin. in the park, 1977, (left to right) (1 sheet, 2 copies, photocopy).
4. Photo of Roginsky A.B. in the camp, 1983 (1 sheet, photocopy).
4.1. Photo by Roginsky A.B., Perchenka F.F. and Ravdin B.A. in nature (1 sheet, photograph).
4.2. Photograph of the reception of guests at the Roginskys' dacha in Ust-Narva on the occasion of the release of Roginsky A.B., August 1985 (1 sheet, photograph).
4.3. Photo by Roginsky A.B. with daughter Asya, 11/22/1985 (1 sheet, photograph).
5. Photo of Alloy V. (1 sheet, photocopy).
6. Photograph by Perchenok F.F. (1 sheet, photograph).
7. Birth certificate of Roginsky A.B., issued by the Velsky District Bureau of the Civil Registry Office of the Arkhangelsk Region on November 29, 1955 (1 sheet, photocopy).
8. Relationship of the State University of Tartu to the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to allow student Roginsky A.B. for work in the manuscript department of the library, 04/09/1965 (1 sheet, typescript).
9. Statement by Roginsky A.B. to the Department of Manuscripts of the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to be allowed to study in the Reading Room, 07/20/1965; the permission was extended on 01/25/1966 (1 sheet, manuscript on the form).
10. Relationship of the State University of Tartu to the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to allow student Roginsky A.B. to work in the manuscript department of the library, 01/20/1966 (1 sheet, typescript).
11. Relationship of the State University of Tartu to the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to allow student Roginsky A.B. for work in the manuscript department of the library, 01/24/1967 (1 sheet, typescript).
12. Relationship of the State University of Tartu to the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to allow student Roginsky A.B. for work in the manuscript department of the library, 07/05/1967 (1 sheet, typescript).
13. The attitude of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. A.I. Herzen to the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to allow Roginsky A.B. classes in the manuscript department of the library, 01/14/1972.
14. Statement by Roginsky A.B. dated 04/03/1974 to the Department of Manuscripts of the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to be allowed to study in the Reading Room; permission was extended on 01/04/1976 (1 sheet, typescript).
15. Protocol of a search in the apartment of Roginsky A.B., February 4, 1977, Leningrad (4 sheets, manuscript on a letterhead).
16. Protocol of a search in the apartment of Roginsky A.B. dated 03/06/1979 in Leningrad (4 sheets, manuscript on letterhead).
17. Decision of the Moscow District People's Court of Leningrad dated 05/14/1979 on the refusal of Roginsky A.B. in a lawsuit against the Department of Public Education of the Executive Committee of the Moscow District Council of People's Deputies to reinstate him at work and collect for the days of forced absenteeism (1 sheet, 2 copies, typewritten copy).
18. Letter from the USSR KGB for the Leningrad Region No. 5-3 / 15683 dated 05/14/1979 to the Moscow People's Court of Leningrad about two held in the apartment of Roginsky A.B. searches, the materials confiscated from them and about the announced Roginsky A.B. official warning of the KGB organs (1 sheet, 2 copies, typewritten copy).
19. Determination of the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases dated 06/12/1979 on upholding the decision of the Moscow District People's Court of Leningrad dated 05/14/1979 on the refusal of Roginsky A.B. copy).
20. Curriculum vitae "The Family of Arseny Roginsky", compiled in [1979] (3 sheets, typescript).
21. Letter from the poet Yevtushenko E.A. to the Supreme Court of the USSR in defense of the historian Roginsky A.B., sentenced to 4 years in prison. [1982] (2 sheets, typescript).
22. Article by Grigoriev P. “How ducks are born” in the newspaper “Vecherniy Leningrad” dated February 12, 1982, about the court verdict of Roginsky A.B. (1 sheet, newspaper clipping).
23. Telegram from Komi [between 1981 and 1985] to Tsendrovskaya that her telegram to Roginsky A.B. not delivered due to the departure of the addressee (1 sheet, color photocopy).
24. An excerpt from an article in defense of the prisoner Roginsky A.B., samizdat, [1983] (1 sheet, typewritten).
25. Letter from the Leningrad Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting No. 447 dated 18.04. 1989 to the People's Court of the Oktyabrsky district of Leningrad with a request to allow freelance correspondent Kosinova T.F. get acquainted with the criminal case on charges of Roginsky A.B. (1 sheet, 2 copies, typescript).
26. Covering letter of the Moscow People's Court of Leningrad No. 2-2077 dated 04.05.1989 Roginsky A.B. on sending a copy of the decision of the People's Court dated 05/14/1979 and a copy of the decision of the Judicial Collegium of the Leningrad City Court dated 06/12/1979 in his case (1 sheet, typescript).
27. Transcript for the program about "Memorial", an interview with Arseniy Roginsky (10 sheets, typescript; 7 sheets of paper).
28. Complaint (by way of supervision) to the public prosecutor of Leningrad dated 18.05.1989 from Roginsky A.B. against the decision of the Moscow District People's Court of Leningrad dated 05/14/1979 on the refusal of A.B. Roginsky in a lawsuit against the Department of Public Education of the Executive Committee of the Moscow District Council of People's Deputies to reinstate him at work and recover for the days of forced absenteeism. (4 sheets, typewritten copy)
29. The cassation appeal of Roginsky A.B. [1989] to the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Leningrad City Court on the decision of the Moscow District People's Court of Leningrad dated May 14, 1979 (7 sheets, typescript).
30. Handwritten notes on the materials of the criminal case on charges of Roginsky A.B. (6 sheets, manuscript).
31. List of publications of Roginsky A.B. from 1986 to 1989 (1 sheet, typescript).
32. Autobiography of Roginsky A.B., written in [1990] (1 sheet, typewritten).
33. Article by Lev Lurie about the release of the collection in memory of A. I. Dobkin “In memoriam” with memories of A. B. Roginsky. and Dobkina A.I., 2000 (2 sheets, typescript).
34. Fragment of the book “Samizdat Leningrad. 1950s - 1980s Literary Encyclopedia, New Literary Review, 2000, pp. 170-175, 300-303, 316-319 (7 sheets, photocopy).
35. Biographical information on Roginsky A.B., compiled by Zubarev D.I. and Reznikova A.A. (2 sheets, typescript).

Names (1)

Roginsky Arseniy Borisovich
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Arseny Borisovich Roginsky was born on March 30, 1946, in Velsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast. His father, Boris Roginsky, was a Leningrad engineer who worked at the Elektrosila plant. He was repressed in 1938 and, after his release from the camp, sent into "eternal exile" in the north, where Arseny was born.

In 1951, Boris Roginsky was arrested again and died in prison. In 1956, the Roginsky family returned to Leningrad.

From 1962 to 1968, Arseny Roginsky was a student in the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tartu, a student of Professor Yuri Lotman. Since 1965, he has published articles and documents on the history of the Russian liberation movement of the 19th century.

From 1968 to 1981, Arseny Roginsky lived in Leningrad. He worked as a bibliographer at the M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library, then as a teacher of Russian language and literature in evening schools. At the same time, he continued his historical research, discovering and publishing several important documents concerning the Narodnaya Volya period of the Russian revolutionary movement. Roginsky's scholarly interests gradually expanded, and his focus shifted to the history of Russia in the 20th century.

Arseny Roginsky entered the dissident and quasi-dissident milieu, many of whose members he had become close to during his time as a student at the University of Tartu, with his own themes, which he later defined as "the need to restore historical memory" and "the re-establishment of independent historical scholarship." The first theme had been present in the work of many dissidents as early as the 1960s (Roy Medvedev, Pyotr Grigorenko, Mark Popovsky, and several others); Roginsky, however, proposed addressing it not only in a journalistic but also an academic vein, bringing scholarly professionalism to the exploration of the "blank spots" of Soviet history.

He and his friends attempted to realize this idea by founding the first samizdat historical collection, "Memory," the compilation and editing of which he oversaw from 1975 to 1981. "The editors consider it their duty to save from oblivion all historical facts and names now doomed to destruction, to disappearance, and above all the names of the dead, the persecuted, the slandered, the fates of families broken up or destroyed en masse; as well as the names of those who executed, defamated, denounced... The most important thing here for us is to extract a historical fact from oblivion, save it from oblivion, and introduce it into circulation—scientific and public" (from the preface to the first issue of the collection "Memory").

On February 4, 1977, a search was conducted at Arseny Roginsky's apartment. On June 16, 1977, Roginsky was issued a warning in accordance with the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated December 25, 1972 (he refused to sign the warning).

After a second search (March 6, 1979), he was dismissed from the school where he worked at the request of the KGB. From 1979 to 1981, to avoid charges of "parasitism," Arseny Roginsky took a job as a literary secretary (an opportunity offered to him by his humanities friends, the writer N.G. Dolinina and Professor Ya.S. Lurye).

In April 1981, Roginsky was urged to emigrate from the USSR, but he did not submit an application. In June 1981, he was denied access to the Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library "for publishing documents in a foreign anti-Soviet publication" (that is, in "Memory," which was reprinted in the West).

On August 12, 1981, Arseny Roginsky was arrested by the KGB and charged with "document forgery" (referring to so-called "relationships"—letters from official scientific institutions, without which a researcher could not gain access to archival materials; Roginsky was accused of presenting these relationships in the archives with forged signatures). He refused to provide any explanation to the investigators, stating that he considered the very practice of restricting access to historical documents unlawful; he defended this position in his final statement at the trial.

A number of literary figures (including V. Kaverin, E. Yevtushenko, and M. Roshchin) spoke in Arseny Roginsky's defense; prominent historians and literary scholars, including B.F. Egorov, Ya.S. Lurye, and V.V. Pugachev, testified in his favor during the trial. Nevertheless, on December 4, 1981, the Oktyabrsky District People's Court of Leningrad sentenced Arseny Roginsky to four years' imprisonment—the maximum penalty under this article.

He served time in camps in the Komi ASSR, Murmansk and Kirov regions.

After his release (August 1985) he resumed his academic work; a number of his studies, written before his arrest, were published under pseudonyms in the historical collections "The Past" (Paris, 1986 - Moscow, 1998). He was the compiler and author of notes (together with Dmitry Zubarev) for the collection "Memoirs of Tolstoyan Peasants. 1910s - 1930s" (Moscow, 1989). He was the editor and compiler of the historical collections "Links" (Issue 1. Moscow, 1990, jointly with Nikita Okhotin; Issue 2. Moscow; St. Petersburg, 1992, jointly with Alexander Dobkin).

In 1988-1989, he became one of the founders of the historical, educational, human rights, and charitable society "Memorial," directing its research programs. In 1990, at the initiative of Arseny Roginsky, the Scientific, Information, and Educational Center "Memorial" was founded (he was elected its chairman in 1996).

Member of the board of the Russian Memorial Society and chairman of the board of the International Memorial Society. From 1990 to 1993, he was an expert on the Human Rights Committee of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation. From 1991 to 1993, he was an expert on the Supreme Soviet Commission for the Transfer of CPSU and KGB Archives to State Safekeeping and the Supreme Soviet Commission for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression. In 1992, he served as an expert on the "CPSU Case" for the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

In the early 1990s, he was a member of the board of the Open Society Institute (Russia) and a member of the editorial boards of the magazines Zvezda and Open Politics. In 1992, he was fully rehabilitated. He lives in Moscow. He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (2005). He is an Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2010).

Died on December 18, 2017 in Israel.

The biographical information was prepared by D.I. Zubarev, A.A. Reznikova, and the Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" (HRO.org).

Documents (38)

1. Photo by Roginsky A.B. for documents.
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотография
1-1. Photo by Roginsky A.B. for documents.
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотография
2. Photo of Roginsky A.B., Dobkin A.I., Dedyulin S.V., 1977, (from left to right).
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотография
3. Photo of Dedyulin S.V., Roginsky A.B., Dobkin A.I. in the park, 1977, (from left to right).
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотография
4. Photo by Roginsky A.B. in the camp, 1983
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотография
4-1. Photo by Roginsky A.B., Perchenko F.F. and Ravdina B.A. Outdoors.
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотография
4-2. Photo of the reception of guests at the Roginsky dacha in Ust-Narva on the occasion of the release of A.B. Roginsky, August 1985.
1 лист, 1 изображение
4-3. Photo by Roginsky A.B. with daughter Asya, November 22, 1985.
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотография
5. Photo by Alloy V.
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотография
6. Photo by Perchenko F.F.
1 лист, 1 изображение, фотография
8. Relationship of Tartu State University to the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to admit student A.B. Roginsky. to work in the manuscript department of the library, 04/09/1965.
1 лист, 1 изображение, оригинал на бланке
9. Statement by Roginsky A.B. to the Manuscripts Department of the State Public Library named after. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to be allowed to study in the Reading Room, 07/20/1965; the permit was extended on January 25, 1966.
1 лист, 1 изображение, оригинал на бланке
10. Relationship of Tartu State University to the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to admit student A.B. Roginsky. to work in the manuscript department of the library, 01/20/1966.
1 лист, 1 изображение, оригинал на бланке
11. Relationship of Tartu State University to the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to admit student A.B. Roginsky. to work in the manuscript department of the library, 01/24/1967.
1 лист, 1 изображение, оригинал на бланке
12. Relationship of Tartu State University to the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to admit student A.B. Roginsky. to work in the manuscript department of the library, 07/05/1967.
1 лист, 1 изображение, оригинал на бланке
13. Attitude of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after. A.I. Herzen in the State Public Library named after. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to allow Roginsky A.B. classes in the manuscript department of the library, 01/14/1972.
1 лист, 1 изображение, оригинал на бланке
14. Statement by Roginsky A.B. dated 04/03/1974 to the manuscript department of the State Public Library named after. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin with a request to be allowed to study in the Reading Room; permission extended 01/04/1976.
1 лист, 1 изображение, оригинал на бланке
17. The decision of the Moscow District People's Court of Leningrad dated May 14, 1979 to deny A.B. Roginsky's claim against the Department of Public Education of the Executive Committee of the Moscow District Council of People's Deputies for his reinstatement at work and recovery for days of forced absence.
1 лист, 1 изображение, оригинал на бланке
18. Letter from the USSR KGB for the Leningrad Region No. 5-3/15683 dated 05/14/1979 to the Moscow People's Court of Leningrad about two events carried out in the apartment of A.B. Roginsky. searches, materials seized during them and the announcement to A.B. Roginsky. official warning from the KGB.
1 лист, 1 изображение, машинописная копия
19. Ruling of the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases dated 06/12/1979 on upholding the decision of the Moscow District People's Court of Leningrad dated 05/14/1979 to deny A.B. Roginsky a claim against the Department of Public Education of the Executive Committee of the Moscow District Council of People's Deputies for his reinstatement at work and penalties for days of forced absence.
1 лист, 2 изображения, машинописная копия
21. Letter from the poet Evtushenko E.A. to the Supreme Court of the USSR in defense of historian A.B. Roginsky, sentenced to 4 years in prison. [1982]
2 листа, 2 изображения, машинопись
22. Article by Grigoriev P. “How ducks are born” in the newspaper “Evening Leningrad” dated February 12, 1982 about the court verdict against A.B. Roginsky.
23. Telegram from Komi [between 1982 and 1985] Tsendrovskaya stating that her telegram to Roginsky A.B. not delivered due to the departure of the addressee.
1 лист, 1 изображение, ксерокопия цветная
24. Excerpt from an article in defense of prisoner A.B. Roginsky, samizdat, [1983].
1 лист, 1 изображение, машинопись
25. Letter of the Leningrad Committee on Television and Radio Broadcasting No. 447 dated April 18, 1989 to the People's Court of the Oktyabrsky District of Leningrad with a request to allow freelance correspondent T.F. Kosinova. get acquainted with the criminal case on charges of Roginsky A.B.
1 лист, 1 изображение, машинопись
26. Covering letter of the Moscow People's Court of Leningrad No. 2-2077 dated 05/04/1989 to A.B. Roginsky. about sending a copy of the people's court decision dated 05/14/1979 and a copy of the ruling of the Leningrad City Court panel dated 06/12/1979 on his case.
1 лист, 1 изображение, машинопись
28. Complaint (by way of supervision) to the prosecutor of the city of Leningrad dated May 18, 1989 from Roginsky A.B. on the decision of the Moscow District People's Court of Leningrad dated May 14, 1979 to deny A.B. Roginsky a claim against the Department of Public Education of the Executive Committee of the Moscow District Council of People's Deputies for his reinstatement at work and recovery for days of forced absence.
4 листа, 4 изображения, машинописная копия
29. Cassation appeal of Roginsky A.B. [1989] to the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Leningrad City Court against the decision of the Moscow District People's Court of Leningrad dated May 14, 1979.
7 листов, 7 изображений, машинопись
30. Handwritten notes on the materials of the criminal case against Roginsky A.B.
6 листов, 6 изображений, рукопись
31. List of publications by Roginsky A.B. from 1986 to 1989
1 лист, 1 изображение, машинопись
32. Autobiography of Roginsky A.B., written in [1990]