Vladimir Osipov Explained

Vladimir Nikolaevich Osipov
Native Name:Владимир Николаевич Осипов
Native Name Lang:Russian
Birth Date:9 August 1938[1]
Birth Place:Slantsy, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Moscow, Russia
Nationality:Russian
Known For:Editor of Veche (1971–1973)
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Vladimir Nikolaevich Osipov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич О́сипов; 9 August 1938 – 20 October 2020)[2] was a Russian writer who founded the Soviet samizdat journal Veche (Assembly).[3] The journal is considered to be an important document of the nationalist or Slavophile strand within the Soviet dissident movement.[4]

Biography

Vladimir Osipov was born on 9 August 1938 in Slantsy, Leningrad Oblast.

He entered studies at the History faculty of Moscow State University. He was expelled in 1959 for protesting the arrest of Anatoly Ivanov, a fellow student, but was able to finish his studies at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute in 1960.

As a student, Osipov was involved in reviving the informal Mayakovsky Square poetry readings in 1960.[5] During this time, he produced a samizdat (self-published) literary journal Boomerang.[6]

In 1961, Osipov was sentenced to seven years in strict-regime labour camps for "Anti-Soviet propaganda". In the camps, he converted to Christianity. He was released in 1968 and managed to find work as a fireman.

During the years 1971-1973, Osipov produced nine issues of the samizdat journal Veche (Assembly). The journal was to be a "Russian patriotic journal" that followed the tradition of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the Slavophiles, taking what Osipov called a "Russophile" position.

Osipov also edited the samizdat journal Zemlia (Earth) in 1974, with a more religious orientation. Zemlia carried material by Russian Orthodox dissenters such as Anatoly Levitin-Krasnov.

In 1974, Osipov was arrested, tried, and sentenced to a second term for engaging in "anti-Soviet propaganda".

Osipov took part in the defence of the parliament during the attempted hard-line coup against Gorbachev in August 1991.[7]

During the 1990s and early 2000s, Osipov was active as one of the leaders of the Union "Christian Rebirth" (UCR), which calls for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy.

His third wife was writer Adel Naidenovich, who also participated in the samizdat journal Veche.[8]

Osipov died on 20 October 2020 in Moscow.[9]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Владимир Николаевич ОСИПОВ . 2009-11-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080202210901/http://www.monarhist.ru/monarhist/Osipov.htm . Monarhist.ru . ru. 2008-02-02 . dead .
  2. Book: Dunlop, John B. The Faces of Contemporary Russian Nationalism. 1983. 978-1-4008-5386-1. 44–46. 2016-08-23.
  3. Book: Scammell, Michael . Solzhenitsyn . 1986 . Paladin . 775 . 0-586-08538-6.
  4. Hammer. Darrell P.. 1984. Vladimir Osipov and the Veche Group (1971-1974): A Page from the History of Political Dissent. Russian Review. 43. 4. 355–375. 10.2307/129530. 0036-0341. 129530.
  5. Sundaram. Chantal. 2006. "The stone skin of the monument": Mayakovsky, Dissent and Popular Culture in the Soviet Union. Toronto Slavic Quarterly. 16.
  6. Book: Hornsby, Rob. Protest, Reform and Repression in Khrushchev's Soviet Union. 2013. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-03092-3. New studies in European history. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York. 266.
  7. Book: Shenfield, Stephen D.. Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, Movements. 2001. Sharpe. 978-0-7656-0635-8. Armonk, NY. 246.
  8. Book: Duncan, Peter J. S. . Russian Messianism: Third Rome, Revolution, Communism and After . Routledge . 2002 . 9781134744770 . 90 . August 23, 2020.
  9. News: Скончался Владимир Николаевич Осипов . Ruskline. 20 October 2020. ru.