Kulumnuur biography
It is noted to go back today by Vasily Vasilyevich Nikiforov-Kulumnur this year the republic celebrates the flying of a prominent public, political and statesman, enlightener and scientist, one of the founders of the Yakut fiction, the leader of the liberal-democratic intelligentsia of Yakutia at the end of the XX centuries. This year, the republic celebrates the flying of a prominent public, political and statesman, enlightener and scientist, one of the founders of the Yakut fiction, the leader of the liberal-democratic intelligentsia of Yakutia at the end of the XX centuries.
On this significant date, the head of the RS was congratulated by Aisen Nikolaev: - On behalf of the leadership of the Republic of Sakha Yakutia, I personally congratulate myself on the flight of the outstanding public and politician, the leader of the liberal democratic movement in Yakutia at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, one of the founders of the Yakut literature, the National Theater and National Press, the Scientist and the Enlightener, the writer and the enlightener, the writer and the writer.
Vasily Vasilyevich Nikiforova-Kulumnur. The name of the outstanding son of the people Sakha Vasily Vasilyevich Nikiforov was restored, rehabilitated and immortalized more than 60 years after his arrest. I will note the contribution of the first president of Yakutia Mikhail Nikolaev in legal and political rehabilitation named after the bright representative of the first generation of the Yakut intelligentsia.
The first democratically elected head of the Yakut region V. Nikiforov was a multifaceted personality. The founder of the Zemstvo movement and the first political organization of the Sakha “Union Yakuts” people made a great contribution to the formation and development of socio-political thought in the republic at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the formation of institutions of civil society and statehood of the peoples of Yakutia.
He advocated a change in the attitude of the empire to his small nations, for the equal representation of zemstvos in the highest authorities of the Russian Empire, was engaged in educational and journalistic activities, studied history and enlightened the importance of Yakut self -government and zemstvo. He saw the main priorities of local self -government in the development of public education, medicine, and agricultural culture.
Nikiforov is known as the author of the first played in the Yakut language of the play “Manchaara” and a translator into the Yakut language of plays by famous Russian writers and playwrights. He was the organizer, publisher and editor of the first newspapers and magazines in the Yakut language, organizer of the first Yakut Free People’s Reading Festival. He made a great contribution to the study of the history of his native land, was one of the researchers who described the family life of the Yakuts as part of the Siberian scientific expedition.
Thanks to the efforts of historians, philologists, literary scholars, archivists, significant factual material about the versatile personality of Vasily Nikiforova-Kulumnura has been accumulated. Only by restoring our history, establishing the connection of times and generations, we will confidently move forward. He studied at the Yakut gymnasium, received an absentee legal education.
While studying in Yakutsk, he talked with political exiles, attended the circle of the famous revolutionary-people's nationor Podbelsky.
In the beginning of the x, the Dupsinsky ulus was appointed the ulus head of the Dupsin. Irkutsk was adopted by the heir to the Russian throne to Tsesarevich Nikolai Romanov. Nikiforova is created by the "Union of Yakutov", for the organization of which he was convicted by one year for six months of prison. Nikiforov became the organizer and publisher of the first Yakut magazine.
It published works of the first talented Yakut writers and poets: A. Sofronov, A. Kulakovsky, N. In G. As Writing Nikiforov wrote, he began to publish a newspaper, "feeling the imperious offensive of the revolutionary coup, in order to prepare the Yakut people for a new system." The congress of foreigners of the Yakut region holds, takes part in the All -Russian Congress on Public Education.
In these years, he translated into the Yakut language of the play “The Power of Darkness” by L. Tolstoy and “Marriage” by N. died on September 15, rehabilitated in the year. Since Dr. Sokolnikov and I were invited to General V. Alekseev Pseudonym Brutus, in the salon of which acquaintances from the aristocratic circle gathered. I also had to read my play there, and my listeners were most interested in the scene in the 2nd action, where Manchars spoke in love with Matrena.
And the scene, where they hug and sniff each other, brought those present in indescribable delight, and they all tried together cavalry in fact to imagine how to sniff each other. Once he read his play “Manchars” in the club under the name “Wandering Dog”, where all Russian writers, poets and scientists gathered. I went there along with the jury of A. Zarudny and the woman-doctor A.
At the same time the famous Russian lawyer Vladimir Berenshtam helped him achieve the permission of censorship for the production of the play “Manchara”. And the scientist and writer V. Bograz-Tan printed a review of the play “Manchars” in “Russian Vedomosti”.And this, to a certain extent, was the recognition of the Russian state system and literary criticism of literature in the language of Sakha.
The literary and scientific heritage of V. Nikiforov is vast. Many of his works are still not published, some of them have been lost. Memory by the Law of the Republic of Sakha Yakutia dated June 15, Nikiforova-Kulumnur, Sakha Academic Theater named after P. Oyunsky staged a play “Ascent of the first” by the play by V. Publishing Center “Mark” released a postal card for the Lettiy of V.