Politburo And The Church, Kremlin Archives

N. Petrovsky, S.G. Petrov

Resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) on the implementation of the values found in the KievPechersk Lavra. From the minutes of the meeting of the Politburo

No. 49, paragraph 15 of February 19, 1925

No. 23-54 ⁴⁶

STRICTLY SECRET

IT WAS RESOLVED AS

LISTENED:

FOLLOWS:

15. About the values found in 6. Allow the Central Committee of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. (PB from the CPU to use those found in 12 / II, pr [report] No. 48 p. b. Kiev-Pechersk Lavra values are 12). (Comrades Bryukhanov, completely on the hungry and Vladimirsky). children within the Ukrainian SSR.

SECRETARY OF THE CC

- L. 81. Typewritten extract on the letterhead of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) 1925, made on February 19, 1925. Above the text of the extract is the mailing address: “Comrade. BRYUKHANOV ".

- APRF, f. 3, op. 1, d.476, l. 28. Draft minutes of the Politburo meeting. The original on the form of the Politburo resolutions, the column "They listened" on a typewriter, the column "Decided" by hand. The number of the paragraph in the upper part of the form was corrected by hand to "15" instead of the previously printed "12", next to the date of the meeting "17" was corrected by hand to "19". Below by hand of L. 3. Mekhlis mailing address: “Extracts from com. Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine to Quiring - in code; Bruchanov ". The last line of the form "By whom (signature) sent" is the autograph of S. F. Chechulin. L. 4:“Present: members of the Politburo: comrades. Bukharin, Zinoviev, Rykov, Stalin, Tomsky. PB membership candidates: Comrades Rudzutak, Frunze. Members of the Central Committee of the RCP Comrades Krasin, Rakovsky, Tsyurupa, Bubnov, Vareikis, Pyatakov, Kaganovich, Mikhailov, A.P. Smirnov, Uglanov, Dogadov. Members of the Pres [idium] Central Control Commission Comrades Gusev, Yaroslavsky, Schwartz, Kuibyshev, Shkiryatov ".

Notes and Comments:

⁴⁶O. Yu. Vasilieva and PN Knyshevsky, relying on the publication in the émigré newspaper Dni (Berlin) of January 6, 1925, interpret the “repeated 'cleaning' of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra" as follows. in its basements, several pounds of gold and 110 pounds of silver artwork were found, sheltered from the evil eyes of property managers in 1922. Church jewelry with 360 diamonds, several bags of old interest-bearing papers worth several million rubles and "counterrevolutionary" correspondence of Tikhonov's persuasion were also found ". See: Vasilyeva O. Yu., Knyshevsky P. N. Red conquistadors. S. 191-192. Apparently, the source of information for the émigré newspaper was the Soviet press, which was quite actively discussing this story. So, for example, in the newspaper "Izvestia" (1925 January 6), a note was published, aimed at discrediting Patriarch Tikhon, who, in the opinion of its author, not only concealed the discovered values, but also sent "intelligence information" abroad through the "monastic agents". On this occasion, Patriarch Tikhon was forced to contact the editorial office of the newspaper on January 10, 1925, with a request to publish his refutation (Izvestia. 1925, January 18). In his letter, the head of the Russian Church announced that he took over the management of the monastery at the beginning of 1924 after the Soviet regime deprived the Ukrainian archpastors of the “actual opportunity to govern”. Therefore, he could not make an order to conceal valuables in the Lavra, and even more so to communicate through monks with "foreign counter-revolution" and with "counter-revolutionary groups within the USSR." (See: Acts of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon ... p. 350). in the opinion of its author, he not only concealed the discovered values, but also sent “intelligence information” abroad through the “monastic agents”. On this occasion, Patriarch Tikhon was forced to contact the editorial office of the newspaper on January 10, 1925, with a request to publish his refutation

(Izvestia. 1925, January 18). In his letter, the head of the Russian Church announced that he took over the management of the monastery at the beginning of 1924 after the Soviet regime deprived the Ukrainian archpastors of the “actual opportunity to govern”. Therefore, he could not make an order to conceal valuables in the Lavra, and even more so to communicate through monks with "foreign counter-revolution" and with "counter-revolutionary groups within the USSR." (See: Acts of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon ... p. 350). On this occasion, Patriarch Tikhon was forced to contact the editorial office of the newspaper on January 10, 1925, with a request to publish his refutation (Izvestia. 1925, January 18). In his letter, the head of the Russian Church announced that he took over the management of the monastery at the beginning of 1924 after the Soviet regime deprived the Ukrainian archpastors of the “actual opportunity to govern”. Therefore, he could not make an order to conceal valuables in the Lavra, and even more so to communicate through monks with "foreign counter-revolution" and with "counter-revolutionary groups within the USSR." (See: Acts of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon ... p. 350). On this occasion, Patriarch Tikhon was forced to contact the editorial office of the newspaper on January 10, 1925, with a request to publish his refutation (Izvestia. 1925, January 18). In his letter, the head of the Russian Church announced that he took over the management of the monastery at the beginning of 1924 after the Soviet regime deprived the Ukrainian archpastors of the “actual opportunity to govern”. Therefore, he could not make an order to conceal valuables in the Lavra, and even more so to communicate through monks with "foreign counter-revolution" and with "counter-revolutionary groups within the USSR." (See: Acts of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon ... p. 350). after the Soviet regime deprived the "de facto possibility of government" of the Ukrainian archpastors. Therefore, he could not make an order to conceal valuables in the Lavra, and even more so to communicate through monks with "foreign counterrevolution" and with "counter-revolutionary groups within the USSR." (See: Acts of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon ... p. 350). after the Soviet regime deprived the "de facto possibility of government" of the Ukrainian archpastors. Therefore, he could not make an order to conceal valuables in the Lavra, and even more so to communicate through monks with "foreign counter-revolution" and with "counter-revolutionary groups within the USSR." (See: Acts of His Holiness Patriarch Tikhon ... p. 350).