Boris Chicherin - Wikipedia Boris Chicherin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Boris Chicherin Boris Chicherin Moscow's Gorodskoy Golova (Московский городской голова)[1] In office 1881/82–1883 Preceded by Sergei Tretyakov (arts patron) Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Чиче́рин) (May 26, 1828 – February 3, 1904) was a Russian jurist and political philosopher, who worked out a theory that Russia needed a strong, authoritative government to persevere with liberal reforms. By the time of the Russian Revolution, Chicherin was probably the most reputable legal philosopher and historian in Russia. Contents 1 Biography 2 See also 3 References 4 External links 5 References Biography[edit] Chicherin was born in Tambov, where his noble ancestors had been residing for many centuries. In 1849, he matriculated from the law department of the Moscow University. On insistence of Dr. Timofey Granovsky, he continued to work in the university as a professor of Russian law. Together with his friend Konstantin Kavelin, he penned a comprehensive program of Russian liberalism which was published by Alexander Herzen in London. Chicherin was a great champion of Alexander II's reforms of the 1860s, hailing them as "the best monument of Russian legislation". He said the tsar had been: called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler: to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care, to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery, to replace it with civic decency and freedom, to establish justice in a country which it never known the meaning of legality, to redesign the entire administration, to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammeled authority, to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations, to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give at the chance to flex its muscles. [2] Chicherin published the Regional Administration of 17th-century Russia in 1856, followed by the treatise On Popular Representation 10 years later. Chicherin's mature works, imbued with Hegel's thought as they were, advocated the constitutional monarchy as an ideal form of government for Russia. In 1868, Chicherin resigned his position at the university as a protest against government repressions and settled in his estate near Tambov. It was here that he wrote several volumes of his bulky History of Political Theories. Its magnificent literary style was acclaimed by such masters as Ivan Turgenev and Leo Tolstoy. Later, Chicherin returned to Moscow, where he was elected the city mayor in 1882. At that period, he supported Alexander's harsh measures in Poland and the tsar's struggle against radical revolutionaries. His speech at Alexander III's coronation in the Kremlin was interpreted as too liberal, however, and he was forced to resign. He spent his last years writing 4 volumes of memoirs and some books on chemistry, zoology, and geometry. The memoirs have been reprinted by Oriental Research Partners (Newtonville, MA) in 1974 with a new introduction on Chicherin's life by Prof. D. Hammer, Indiana University. The revolutionary Georgy Chicherin, later Soviet Foreign Minister, was Boris Chicherin's nephew. See also[edit] List of Russian legal historians References[edit] Hamburg, G. M. Boris Chicherin and Early Russian Liberalism, 1828–1866 (Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1992). ISBN 0-8047-2053-3 External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boris Nikolaevich Chicherin. (in Russian) Extensive entry in the Brockhaus-Efron Encyclopaedia References[edit] ^ https://bigenc.ru/domestic_history/text/4687490 ^ Quoted in David Saunders, ‘’Russia in the age of reaction and reform: 1801–1881’’ (1992) p. 213 Authority control BNF: cb145150407 (data) GND: 118814443 ISNI: 0000 0001 1440 9817 LCCN: n82275878 NDL: 00727967 NKC: jn20020328002 NLA: 35774961 NTA: 070385254 PLWABN: 9810621225405606 RSL: 000082191 SELIBR: 105422 SNAC: w6f79sdk SUDOC: 066851300 Trove: 1081547 VIAF: 32230355 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n82275878 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boris_Chicherin&oldid=989404650" Categories: 1828 births 1904 deaths Imperial Russian historians Imperial Russian philosophers Imperial Russian politicians Imperial Moscow University alumni Legal historians Imperial Russian liberals Mayors of Moscow Hidden categories: Articles containing Russian-language text Commons category link is on Wikidata Articles with Russian-language sources (ru) Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NDL identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with RSL identifiers Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Deutsch Français Italiano Қазақша Македонски مصرى 日本語 Norsk bokmål Русский Slovenčina Svenska Türkçe Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 18 November 2020, at 20:06 (UTC). 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