Russian writer Ivan A. Rodionov left a mark in history not only as the author of literary works, but also as a monarchist and participant in the White movement. He was a political and public figure in Russian emigration. The life and work of this extraordinary person will be discussed in the article.
Biography
Ivan Rodionov was born on 10/20/1866 in the village of Kamyshevskaya, which was then part of the Donskoy Army region (now it belongs to the Rostov region). His father was a landowner, a native of the Don Cossacks. In 1881-1884 Ivan studied at the Elizavetgrad cavalry school. Then, in 1884-1886, he was brought up in the Novocherkassk Cunk Cossack School. He graduated from the first category and a cornet was released.
Further, Ivan Rodionov served in the first and tenth Don Cossack regiments. As the commander of the Cossack hundreds, he took part in suppressing the riot of workers in Borovichi. After his resignation, he became the zemstvo commander in the city and made friends with his neighbor on the estate, Mikhail Rodzianko, Bishop Hermogenes and Hieromonk Iliodor. He was introduced to the royal family.
Ivan Alexandrovich was a convinced monarchist. He advocated the complete expulsion of the Jewish people from the territory of Russia. The most terrible evil for the country was considered popular drunkenness. He said that Russia is dying for two reasons: because of the Jews and alcohol.
During the First World War
Ivan Rodionov was a member of the hostilities as a Cossack officer. From October 1915 he served at the headquarters of General Brusilov, commander of the Southwestern Front. He participated in the operation "Brusilovsky Breakthrough", was awarded four military orders. At the same time he was engaged in journalism, and until October 1916 he was editor of Army Bulletin, the daily newspaper of the Southwestern Front.
In 1917, Ivan Rodionov did not swear allegiance to the Provisional Government. In August, he took part in a Kornilov speech, for which he was subsequently imprisoned in the city of Bykhov, Mogilev region.
Civil War 1918-1922
When the Kornilovites were released, Rodionov returned to the Don and became a member of the Volunteer Army, in which he participated in the first Kuban campaign. In the same period, Ivan Alexandrovich published in Novocherkassk the newspapers Donskoy Kray and Chasovoy. In the latter, in January 1919, he published the document “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.
In November 1918, Ivan Rodionov participated in the monarchical congress, which was held in Rostov-on-Don. According to his results, the man was elected a member of the Southeast Monarchical Committee, created with the aim of further promoting monarchist ideas and restoring the monarchy in Russia. At the request of General Wrangel in 1920, Rodionov was engaged in the organization of printing in the south of the country.
After completing the Civil War with the rank of colonel, Ivan Alexandrovich emigrated from Russia.
Literary work
As a writer, Ivan Rodionov became known in 1909, after the publication of the story Our Crime, which during five years survived five editions. At the initiative of Anatoly Koni, this work was even put forward for the Pushkin Prize. In 1911, Ivan Alexandrovich wrote a satirical epic "Mother Moscow", in which he demonstrated the Cossacks' view of Russian history. In the press, this work received negative reviews.
In 1922, Rodionov created the story of the Ice Camp "Evening Victims." In it, he described the cruelty of the Russian uprising and spoke of the people as an “evil cattle” worthy only of “hedgehogs, a whip and a stick”.
In 1937, the work “The Kingdom of Satan” was published, in which Ivan Rodionov called himself an anti-Semite and expressed admiration for the activities of Hitler.
A family
The writer was married twice. The first wife, Nina Vladimirovna Anzimirova, was a theater artist. In a marriage with her, Rodionov had two sons: Yaroslav in 1903 and Vladimir in 1905. The younger son subsequently became a monk.
The second wife of Ivan Alexandrovich was Anna Alekseevna Kovanko. She bore him three children: son of Svyatoslav, born in 1909, son of Germogen, born in 1912. and daughter Sofia, born in 1916
