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Russian author and political activist In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Isidorovich and the family name is Fondaminsky.
Ilya Fondaminsky
Member of the
Russian Constituent Assembly
In office
25 November 1917 – 20 January 1918
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
ConstituencyBlack Sea Fleet
Personal details
BornИлья Исидорович Фондаминский
(1880-02-17)February 17, 1880
Moscow, Moskovsky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedNovember 19, 1942(1942-11-19) (aged 62)
Auschwitz, Gau Upper Silesia, Nazi Germany
Political partySocialist Revolutionary Party
OccupationWriter, political activist, editor, philanthropist
NicknameI. Bunakov

Ilya Isidorovich Fondaminsky (Russian: Илья Исидорович Фондаминский; February 17, 1880, Moscow, Russia — November 19, 1942, Auschwitz, Nazi-occupied Poland), was a Russian author (writing under the pseudonym I. Bunakov) and political activist, in 1910s one of the leaders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, in 1917 a senior member of the Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government.

In 1918, Fondaminsky took part in the Jassy Conference. In Paris, where he has been living since 1919, Fondaminsky veered off from the left and became an influential newspaper editor (Sovremennye Zapisky, among others), author of philosophical essays and in the later years — much admired philanthropist, supporting Christian magazines and charity funds. In his biography of Mother Maria Skobtsova, Pearl of Great Price, Father Serge Hackel wrote that Fondaminsky gave occasional lectures at the Sunday afternoon gatherings at the house on the Rue de Lourmel.

Facing the Nazi occupation, Fondaminsky refused to leave Paris, saying he would accept his destiny whatever it would be. Arrested in July 1941 as a Jew and sent to the concentration camp, he adopted Christianity and was received into the Russian Orthodox Church not long before being sent to Auschwitz. Ilya Fondaminsky died there on November 19, 1942, aged 62. In 2003, he was officially pronounced a Russian Orthodox saintly martyr by the Patriarch of Constantinople.

References

  1. Shkarovsky, M.V. "Илья Фондаминский – ученый, политик, литератор, святой // Ylya Fondaminsky: a scientist, a politician, a literary man, a saint". Петербургская духовная академия / St Petersburg Religious Academy. Archived from the original on 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  2. ^ Skorkin, Konstantin. "Святой эсер / The Saintly Eser". zhurnal.lib.ru. Retrieved 2010-10-13.
  3. Radulescu, Domnica (2002). Realms of Exile: Nomadism, Diasporas, and Eastern European Voices. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7391-0333-3.
  4. "The Saintly Martyrs of Paris". The Alphabet of Faith. Russian Orthodox Site. 2004. Retrieved 2015-01-01.

Notes

  1. The Constituent Assembly was declared dissolved by the Bolshevik-Left SR Soviet government, rendering the end the term served.

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