Shatilov Mikhail Bonifatievich

Genus. 23.05. (04.06. old style) 1882 in the village. Smolenskoe Biysk district of Tomsk province; Russian; from the peasants, the son of a village teacher; higher education; non-partisan. Lived in Tomsk. He graduated from the Tomsk Theological Seminary and the Law Faculty of Tomsk University (1909). Member of the Council of the Tomsk Society for the Study of Siberia (1909). Since 1911 sworn attorney of the Omsk Judicial Chamber at the Tomsk District Court. In 1917-1918 a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. Member of the executive committee of Tomsk province. People's Assembly, deputy of the Constituent Assembly for the Altai electoral district. At the end of 1917 he was elected to the Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia, and in June–September 1918 he was Minister of Native Affairs. He worked as a commissioner of the Siberian Union of Zemstvos and Cities. In 1920–1922 he worked at Tomsk University at the department of “Native Law and Life.” He was arrested several times (in 1918, 1920, 1921, 1931). In 1923 he publicly renounced the Socialist Revolutionaries. Founder of the Tomsk Museum of Local Lore, its director in 1922–1933. Arrested on April 1, 1933 in the “White Guard Conspiracy” case. Sentenced in Novosibirsk on August 05, 1933 by the OGPU Collegium under Art. 58-2, 11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 10 years in labor camp. In custody on Solovki. By a resolution of the Special Troika of the UNKVD of the Leningrad Region dated November 25, 1937, he was sentenced to capital punishment. Shot on December 8, 1937 in Leningrad. Rehabilitated in June 1959 by the Military Tribunal of the Siberian Military District. In 2012, a memorial plaque was installed on the building of the Tomsk Museum of Local Lore.