Nikolai Meshcheryakov

Nikolai Leonidovich Meshcheryakov (Russian: Николай Леонидович Мещеряков; 1865–1942) was a Russian and Soviet historian of literature and head of the Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs (Glavlit) under the People's Commissariat for Education of Russian SFSR in the 1920s.[1]

Meshcheryakov's political career started off in Narodnya Volya where he learnt conspiratorial techniques, before becoming aligned with Russian Social Democracy. He was an old Sunday School friend of Nadya Krupskaya and introduced her to Social democracy and passed on his knowledge of illegal work.[2] He spent some time in exile in Liège, Belgium.[3]

He was the editor of Izvestia of the Moscow Military Revolutionary Committee and member of the editorial board of Izvestia of the Moscow Provincial Soviet during to the October Revolution.

In 1924 he joined Otto Schmidt in the group drawing up the outline of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.[4]

Meshcheryakov was a member of the Presidium of the Krestintern and served as the chief editor of the organization's magazine "The Peasant International".[5]

Zaraisk secondary school No. 1, as well as one street in Moscow, in the Tushino district, was named after N. L. Meshcheryakov.

References
  1. Maguire, Robert A. (2000). Red virgin soil : Soviet literature in the 1920s. Evanston, Ill.: North Western University Press. ISBN 978-0810117419.
  2. McKnight, David (2012). Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage.
  3. Krupskaya, Nadya (1933). "Reminiscences of Lenin". Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  4. "Beginning of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia issue". Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
  5. "Autobiography".
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