Petrovsky Nikolay Vasilievich

Born on January 30, 1890 in the village of Ramenki (Rovenki), Yegoryevsky district, Ryazan province. From the family of a clergyman. He studied at the Zaraisk Theological School, Ryazan province, then at the Ryazan Theological Seminary, graduating from which in 1910, he passed additional exams at the Ryazan First Men's Gymnasium for the right to enter the university. At the same time he entered Moscow University at the Faculty of History and Philology. Since 1911, a member of the Psychological Institute at Moscow University, participated in the theoretical and experimental development of psychological problems. In 1915, his diploma work “Critique of modern functional psychology” was awarded a gold medal. Remained at the university to prepare for a professorship in the department of philosophy and psychology. He worked in a gymnasium and, after the revolution, in a labor school. From 1919 to 1921 worked at the Faculty of History and Philology of Nizhny Novgorod University, taught experimental psychology, later became dean of the Faculty of History and Philology of Nizhny Novgorod State University and professor in the Department of Psychology and Logic. After returning to Moscow in 1921, he worked at the Psychotechnical Laboratory of the Moscow Communal Services (MKH), at the State Academy of Artistic Sciences, as a researcher at the Institute of Occupational Diseases named after. V.A. Butt. lived in Moscow, Trubnikovsky lane, 26, apt. 3. He was a parishioner of the “True Orthodox Church”, “non-remembering”. Arrested on 09.09.1930 by the OGPU of the USSR in the case of the All-Union Center for True Orthodoxy. During the investigation he was kept in Lubyanka and Butyrskaya prisons. From the case materials: “He was a participant in the church-political center of the all-Union k/r organization “True Orthodox Church” and one of the initiators of the creation of this organization. Participated in illegal meetings in the apartments of center members, professors D.F. Egorov and A.F. Losev , on which the organization’s platform was developed and its practical activities were discussed.” 09/03/1931 The OGPU board convicted under Art. 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years in prison. From October 3, 1931 he was imprisoned in Svirlag. 09.09 (10?). 1940 released early. Rehabilitated on March 22, 1994.