Nikolay Sedov. Nikolai Sedov: I received complete freedom of action from the management
Nikolay Sedov. Professional journalist. A man of difficult fate and a great creative biography. From his youth, he devotedly serves his chosen cause. Having traveled almost the entire USSR, he became attached to Russia with his heart. Lives and works in Krasnodar. Newspaper editor, staff correspondent and... Poet.
I first read the poems of Nikolai Sedov many years ago. I was struck by the extraordinary openness and imagery of the letter of an author unknown to me then. We met. More than a decade has passed since then.
On my desktop is the manuscript of his first book. And this is reassuring. My friend's poems are heartfelt and simply captured my imagination from the very first lines:,
A person can be identified by his gait, by his surroundings. And also in verse. The fate of the future poet was already predetermined when the very young Kolya Sedov fled, drawn by the romance of wandering, from the family of a career officer to a Komsomol construction site. Open to all winds, sincere and in love with life, he will later write with restraint, with light sadness about that distant time:
And the avalanche rushes over the sad
Ukrainian steppes,
Under the Drogobych gate in the Moldavian
shock squad,
To the soldier's Caucasus,
where the peaks shine - you will go blind!
To the Amur... Through the Kuban...
Oh my God! At least not in vain.
It should be noted in the work of Nikolai Sedov a living connection with the Russian epic, with the legend and, I dare say, with the fairy tale. The feeling of allegory is not lost throughout the entire poetic revelation of the book. Both in form and content. The author, vulnerable and steadfast, with a sense of dignity and justice, kind by nature and in earthly affairs, is faithful to the chosen path. The literary heroes of the poet look at the world around them with such incorruptible predilection, with such love, sensitively protecting what in Russia, more than anywhere else, is called the motherland - that you involuntarily recognize the author himself:
The blueness of Ilmen has faded,
Ah, what a young man he was!
Having a remarkable strength,
enemy planes, like wood chips, drowned ...
Give, Valdai, the secrets of ancient truths,
show us the faces of the Iberian saints,
forgive sins, return us to the pure Faith,
fill dead crosses with life...
This is the original Russia. And to its southern borders and along - all this is the territory of the poet Nikolai Sedov:
The estuary lapped sweetly
To the slope of the Karabetova mountain,
And a volcano stirs in the mountain,
And in the estuary, sturgeon fish ...
Good and blissful around
Sweet is the bitter spirit of wormwood.
Seagulls play in the wind
The waves of the mane reared like lions.
Heading towards Phanagoria
old stalker...
Refined and simple. But it is also capacious, figurative and - a critic would have noticed a hundred years ago. Doesn't Nikolai Sedov, our contemporary, define him as a MAN-LYRIC, MAN-PHILOSOPHER and his subsequent poems? From, for example, it is impossible to throw out or replace the words:
The night has flown away
from Orthodox crosses
the domes shone on the temples.
The day begins
primeval leaf,
as if inserted into a blue frame ...
There is some understatement in the author's poetry. She is justified. The depth of metaphor and image. Breathing rhythm and writing style. And the form, rhyme - emphasize what is given from above. The reader will have to discover another Russian poet. To open those spaces where the entrance is strictly limited by the state of the soul. But there is in the lines of Nikolai Sedov and a riddle of no less attractive force. Accessibility is just one of them. In a word, he is not a cold observer of events, but a participant. Not from what he read, but from what he saw, experienced by himself, the author shows in detail, unobtrusively, that only he is close and inherent in spirit: The detailing of the plot is simple at first glance. But as soon as a word was uttered, the structure of thoughts and feelings acquire other qualities.
Or in a philosophical understanding of the day as such:
yellow haystack
overripe sun
mowed down the burning day,
drank the sky
to the starry bottom
and left
by the beam on the water...
Similarly, a person is a century in labor, in striving for perfection and harmony. This is the meaning of life. And that means it's true.
From early childhood, a person takes the first steps towards the wisdom of comprehending oneself. With this memory, I think, the poet Nikolai Sedov reveals his main virtues. His high naivety of a sage, sacredly revered and protecting the memory of the heart, is dear to me for one reason: they are close to me. The melody of the divine source - childhood - still lives in it. That is what makes his book and its author interesting.
Sergei Safonov.
Member of the Union of Russian Writers and the Union of Journalists of the Russian Federation.
Herd disturbed
memories rush through the memory,
Horses driven by time
bit with a red-hot iron,
But the horseman is harsh
does not hear tired neighing.
The road is ending
but as if he had not walked on it.
Where does it start?
Strigunok will not answer winged,
Fly away like the wind
somewhere in the Far East.
Where will I put the limit?
The old horse wheezes
angular,
Hopelessly left behind
switching to intermittent lope.
And the avalanche is rolling
for those who are sad
Ukrainian steppes,
Under the Drohobych Gate
to the Moldovan shock detachment,
To the soldier's Caucasus,
where the peaks shine -
go blind!
To the Amur... Through the Kuban...
Oh my God! At least not in vain.
... Herd thinned
memories rush through the memory.
Horses driven by time...
Time?
Maybe you?
The herd is far away.
All the farewell neighing is heard,
And in tangled manes
gray hair shows through fate.
Father and coach of the five-time champion and multiple winner of three junior world championships in cross-country skiing Peter Sedov, coach of the bronze medalist of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games Irina Khazova.
Biography
In the experimental group under the leadership of Sedov, during this period they trained:
- Pyotr Sedov - son of Nikolai Evgenievich, five-time world champion among juniors, now a member of the Russian national team;
- Raul Shakirzyanov - the owner of "gold" in the relay and "silver" in the duathlon at the Junior World Championships, now a member of the Russian national team;
- Andrei Kalsin - the owner of "gold" in the relay and "silver" in the freestyle race;
- Pavel Vikulin - the owner of "gold" in the relay and "bronze" in the freestyle race;
- Artyom Maltsev - skier born in 1993, gets into the top fifteen in juniors and won the Russian championship among middle-aged boys;
- Evgenia Tikhova - skier born in 1990, showing good results;
- Alevtina Tanygina - skier born in 1989, skier from Moscow.
- Nastya Sedova is the daughter of Nikolai Evgenievich, a skier born in 1995, who won four races at the Russian Championship for middle-aged girls, in Syktyvkar.
In addition to students from his group, Sedov trained multiple world champion among juniors and youth, winner and prize-winner of the World Cup stages Irina Khazova (nee Artyomova) - later the bronze medalist of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.
Work as a head coach of the women's national team of Russia
In the 2010-2011 season, Nikolai Sedov led the Russian women's cross-country skiing team. However, this season, his wards did not achieve serious success, and in the spring of 2011, Nikolai Sedov submitted a letter of resignation, which was granted. At the same time, his son, multiple world junior champion Pyotr Sedov, who had always trained with his father until this year, began training with the country's men's national team under the leadership of Oleg Perevozchikov since the spring of 2011.
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An excerpt characterizing Sedov, Nikolai Evgenievich
More than anyone else in this first time, both Pierre's affairs and himself were mastered by Prince Vasily. Since the death of Count Earless, he has not let go of Pierre. Prince Vasily looked like a man weighed down by deeds, tired, exhausted, but out of compassion he could not finally leave this helpless young man, the son of his friend, apres tout, [in the end] and with such a huge fortune. In those few days that he spent in Moscow after the death of Count Bezukhy, he called Pierre to him or came to him himself and ordered him what needed to be done, in such a tone of fatigue and confidence, as if he always said:"Vous savez, que je suis accable d" affaires et que ce n "est que par pure charite, que je m" occupe de vous, et puis vous savez bien, que ce que je vous propose est la seule chose faisable. You know, I'm overwhelmed with business; but it would be ruthless to leave you like that; of course, what I'm telling you is the only possible one.]
“Well, my friend, we’re leaving tomorrow, finally,” he once said to him, closing his eyes, running his fingers over his elbow and in such a tone as if what he was saying had been decided a long time ago between them and could not have been decided otherwise.
- Tomorrow we are going, I give you a place in my carriage. I am very happy. Here we have everything important. And I should have for a long time. Here's what I got from the Chancellor. I asked him about you, and you are enrolled in the diplomatic corps and made chamber junker. Now the diplomatic road is open to you.
Despite all the strength of the tone of fatigue and the confidence with which these words were uttered, Pierre, who had been thinking about his career for so long, wanted to object. But Prince Vasily interrupted him in that cooing, bass tone, which ruled out the possibility of interrupting his speech and which he used in case of need for extreme persuasion.
- Mais, mon cher, [But, my dear,] I did it for myself, for my conscience, and there is nothing to thank me for. No one ever complained that he was too loved; and then, you are free, even if you quit tomorrow. Here you will see everything yourself in St. Petersburg. And it's time for you to move away from these terrible memories. Prince Vasily sighed. Yes, yes, my soul. And let my valet ride in your carriage. Oh yes, I had forgotten, ”Prince Vasily added,“ you know, mon cher, that we had accounts with the deceased, so I received from Ryazan and will leave it: you don’t need it. We agree with you.
What Prince Vasily called from "Ryazan" was several thousand dues, which Prince Vasily left with himself.
In St. Petersburg, as well as in Moscow, an atmosphere of tender, loving people surrounded Pierre. He could not refuse the place or, rather, the title (because he did nothing) that Prince Vasily brought him, and there were so many acquaintances, calls and social activities that Pierre, even more than in Moscow, experienced a feeling of haziness, haste and everything that comes, but does not happen any good.
From his former bachelor society, many were not in St. Petersburg. The Guard went on the march. Dolokhov was demoted, Anatole was in the army, in the provinces, Prince Andrei was abroad, and therefore Pierre could neither spend the nights, as he used to like to spend them, nor occasionally take his soul in a friendly conversation with an older respected friend. All the time it was held at dinners, balls, and mainly with Prince Vasily - in the company of the fat princess, his wife, and the beautiful Helen.
Anna Pavlovna Scherer, like others, showed Pierre the change that had taken place in the public view of him.
Previously, in the presence of Anna Pavlovna, Pierre constantly felt that what he was saying was indecent, tactless, not what was needed; that his speeches, which seem clever to him, while he is preparing them in his imagination, become stupid as soon as he speaks out loud, and that, on the contrary, the most stupid speeches of Hippolytus come out smart and sweet. Now everything he said came out charmant. Even if Anna Pavlovna did not say this, he saw that she wanted to say it, and she only, in respect of his modesty, refrained from doing so.
In the past winter season, another star lit up in the sky of Russian ski racing - Pyotr Sedov, who won all distance disciplines at the Junior World Championships. For two years of performances at the junior championships, Peter has collected an impressive collection - four gold and one silver medal. The history of Soviet and Russian skiing knows only a few such examples: six-time world champions among juniors were Gennady Lazutin and Yulia Chepalova, four-times - Ruth Rehemaa, Alexander Chaiko and German Karachevsky, three-times - Olga Danilova, Tatyana Bondareva (Kirillova), Irina Luzina (Skladneva ), Natalya Masalkina (Baranova), Yuri Skobov, Evgeny Dementiev. Some of them, such as Chepalova, Dementiev, Danilova, Skobov, Baranova, managed to prove themselves at an adult level, become an Olympic champion or world champion. Someone like Lazutin, Karachevsky, Chaiko and Rekhemaa got lost and could not fully reveal his talent.
"L.S." decided to meet and talk with the father and coach of Petr Sedov, Nikolai, who since this year has been leading the experimental group Vancouver 2010 - Sochi 2014 within the Russian national team, to try to understand what the future holds for his son, as well as other promising riders who train under his leadership.
GET TO KNOW
Nikolai Evgenievich, please tell us about the group you lead. It is called "Vancouver-2010 - Sochi-2014". What is the meaning of this name, what is the composition of the group, its goals?
This is an experimental group created on the initiative of Yuri Viktorovich Borodavko. It was his idea to create such a group within the national team of the country, consisting of young promising athletes who are still too early to join the main team and who are not yet ready to perform the loads typical of the men's and women's main teams.
I must say that in Soviet times there was always such a team: it was the youth team of the country, the Druzhba team. Our team is just like those teams. Since this year, they decided to revive it, the “go-ahead” was received from the president of the federation, Vladimir Alekseevich Loginov, who also did a lot to open the group. After all, it is one thing to simply “open” a team, and quite another to make it work effectively. The opening of our group entailed large financial investments: this is the organization of training camps, inventory and equipment, and medical support for athletes. However, thanks to the leadership of the federation and Yuri Borodavko, this group was created and, starting from August, is fully funded by the Ministry of Sports.
- And who financed your group until that time?
Before that there were problems. We spent the first training camp in Sarov entirely at the expense of the federation, the following training camps in Otepää and Ostrov were financed by Loginov's personal contacts with the heads of regional sports committees. But, despite the difficulties, everything is still going according to plan. The Department of Sports Development of the Nizhny Novgorod Region represented by Viktor Vladimirovich Kharitonov and Alina Gennadievna Gorshunova provided us with great help. They provided funding without question to send Sedov and Khazova to Otepää and Ostrov.
- So after all, why does your group have such a name?
The group is named so because its main long-term task is preparation for the Olympic Games in Sochi-2014, since the main backbone of the group is young and promising guys and girls. But from this composition, according to the estimates of our leadership, one or two people can get to the Olympics in Vancouver. Hence the name, which symbolizes the transition from Vancouver 2010 to Sochi 2014.
Different athletes have different tasks, but there are no tough conditions for us to get to the Olympic Games in Vancouver. The management really looks at things: we need to successfully perform at the world championship among juniors and youth under 23 years old, which will be held this year in Germany, and we also have two participants with the prospect of performing at the European Winter Youth Festival next year and in the first Children's Olympic Games in 2012.
- Probably, your appointment was not unexpected for you. Tell us how you were invited to the national team?
To be honest, this is not the first time that I have been called a coach in the national team of the country. This invitation was the fourth or fifth, and they usually came from the head coach of the national team Yuri Viktorovich Borodavko and from the senior reserve coach Vladimir Danilovich Timofeev. I was offered to lead the youth team, juniors or juniors. So this time, it was first about juniors, but in the end we settled on just this version of the experimental team. And this option, of course, suits me the most, because the main backbone of the group is made up of athletes from the Nizhny Novgorod region: Irina Khazova (former Artyomova), multiple world champion among juniors and youth, whose two-year suspension ended this year, junior Evgenia Tikhova, talented skier born in 1990, showing very decent results. Then my son Pyotr Sedov, four-time world champion among juniors; Artyom Maltsev, born in 1993, who is already in the top 15 in juniors and won the Russian championship in middle age; and my daughter Nastya Sedova, born in 1995 This year she won four races at the All-Russian competitions, that is, at the Russian Championship for average girls, in Syktyvkar.
As for the rest, there is generally a stellar line-up - the winners of this year's World Junior Championships in the relay. In addition to Petya, these are Raul Shakirzyanov (“gold” in the relay and “silver” in the duathlon at the Junior World Championships), Andrey Kalsin (“gold” in the relay and “silver” in the freestyle race) and Pavel Vikulin (“gold” in the relay and "bronze" in the freestyle race). Also preparing with me is Alevtina Tanygina, born in 1989, a skier from Moscow, whom I have known for a very long time, since she comes from the Volga Federal District. She also went to the youth festival in Jaca, Spain, when Piotr rode for the first time, and won one individual race there. Moreover, she fought there with such strong rivals as, for example, Marte Kristoffersen, who already plays for the main team of Norway. After that, she got into the junior team, didn’t show anything for two years, but the girl, I think, is very talented and is able to show good results. So far, there are no questions about preparation for it at all. Thus, we have 7 people in the main team, and two, Sedova and Maltsev, travel with us at the expense of the regions.
- Do you have assistants: a second coach, a massage therapist, a serviceman? ..
Thanks again to the leadership of the federation, from the very first training camp in Sarov, we had our own doctor, who has been traveling with us for the third training camp - Vladimir Ilyich Sorbitov. From this camp, we will also have our own lubricator Dmitry Pirogov, and from September my pupil Pavel Troshkin will replace him.
THE BEGINNING OF THE WAY
- Tell us about yourself, how did you get into skiing?
I have been skiing for a long time, I started running back in my school years, and after the army I entered the Smolensk State Institute of Physical Culture, where I studied at the department of skiing. There I began to show the first makings of a coach. We had a very competent teacher Lyubov Fedorovna Kobzeva - it was she who instilled in me a love for coaching. This is where it all started.
- Where were you born, how did you grow up?
I was born in the Sasovsky district of the Ryazan region, where, somewhere in the fifth grade, I started skiing in the school section under the guidance of a physical education teacher. Then there were competitions: the championship of schools of the district, region, and so on. Since then, cross-country skiing has accompanied me throughout my life, and when it was time to go to college, I didn’t even doubt that I would go to physical education. Then the coaching work, which is still going on.
- There was no desire to run longer yourself?
I graduated from the institute in 1989 at the height of perestroika, and, frankly, I had no time for that.
- Did you start working as a coach immediately after graduation?
In those days, there was still distribution, and together with my wife Sedova Elena Sergeevna, who, like me, was a master of sports in cross-country skiing, was sent to the closed city of Sarov. We specifically chose a place where two young specialists were needed. Although there were proposals to stay in the Smolensk region and run around. But we nevertheless decided to go to work in the Sarov children's and youth sports school, and settled down quite successfully there.
- How did you manage to solve the problem with housing?
We were immediately given a room in a hostel, and then it went: “small family”, a service three-room apartment, and at the moment we already have our own apartment.
SAROV AND ITS STARS
- Since we are talking about Sarov, please tell us what are the conditions for ski racing in the city?
Conditions for skiing in Sarov are ideal. The result in skiing consists of three components: the first is the presence of talented athletes, the second is the presence of good coaches, the third is the presence of a competent person in the city administration who understands the needs of athletes and coaches. If at least one of these components is missing, then a normal result cannot be achieved. But in Sarov, at the moment, all three components of success are available.
Our town is small, only 120 thousand inhabitants, it can be walked from end to end in 30 minutes, and it is located on the territory of the Mordovian Reserve. The ski base is not on the outskirts, but practically in the city itself. Attention to cross-country skiing on the part of the administration of the city of Sarov, represented by the head Valery Dmitrievich Dimitrov, is very high. He took responsibility for the construction of a ski-roller track at our ski base, the only one in the region, and actively develops sports in the city. Sarov hosted the "Ski track of Russia", this year thanks to it the city is going to purchase a retrack, and this will be a completely different level of preparation of ski slopes. The city hosts a huge number of competitions, ranging from the Championship of Internal Troops to the finals of the Russian Cup in roller skiing. As you understand, without the help of the administration, this would not have been possible. He also actively helps the youth sports school.
Our school is small, it has only four coaches, but from year to year we consistently supply our students to the national team of the country. Over the past seven or eight years, the junior team has had one or two athletes from Sarov every year. First Troshkin, then Artyomova, Khlopotina, Sedov, Tikhova ... That is, a lot of people for our small town.
- After you left the national team, was there anyone who will replace you?
There is probably no one to replace me yet. Now only my wife works there, with whom we usually work together, in tandem. She works on initial training groups, brings athletes to a certain level, and then transfers them to me. And this brigade method of work will never become obsolete. For the development of cross-country skiing, this is one of the best ways, because one person cannot grasp the immensity and must work only with a certain contingent of students who are at a certain level of training.
- When did the first successes come in the coaching field?
As I said, my wife and I came to the sports school in 1989. Although at that time there were six coaches there, this school had no graduates. Children finished their studies up to the eighth-ninth grade and left. The first successes came to us literally two years later. In those days, there were still competitions for the prizes of the Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper, and our children, having studied for two years, have already won the regional competitions of this newspaper. Three or four years later, our guys began to win the region, and before that, in the ski races, Sarov was in the most remote roles in the region. Now we are the undisputed leaders in the field, but we were moving towards this gradually, rising from step to step.
Our first masters of sports were Anatoly Rodionov, born in 1978. and Valery Sukhov, born in 1977 Valery then became one of the leading skiers in the Smolensk region, as he studied at the Smolensk infizkult.
The next step up for us was Pavel Troshkin. He took second place in the Russian championship for senior boys, got into the junior team with Yuri Viktorovich Borodavko. By the way, that's when Wartko and I met. And Pavel became the world champion among juniors in the relay, the silver medalist of the championship. Since then, it's gone.
Pasha was followed by Ira Artyomova, who, not preparing for the national team, was selected for the team for the Junior World Championship, where she took first place in the relay and third in the individual race. The following year, she already won three distances at the World Championships.
Then there was Olga Khlopotina, master of sports, for two years she won the Russian championship, but so far, I think, she has not fully revealed herself. Then my son Pyotr Sedov went upstairs. Also not preparing for the national team, Peter brought a full set of medals from the youth Winter Festival in Jaca: he was third in the classic race, second in the skate race and won gold in the mixed relay team. The next year we went to Italy, where he, while still an older youth, took second place in the individual race and first in the relay team. This year Peter won two individual races and a relay race. Also this year, along with Peter, Evgenia Tikhova got into the team. This is a racer from Nizhny Novgorod, but she has been training with me for five years now. A very talented and promising girl, but she failed to prove herself “in the world” - she fell ill. Her best place was tenth in the sprint, but next year, I hope everything will turn out better.
Their replacement is also growing up: these are just the young guys that I bring with me at the expense of the region - Artyom Maltsev and Anastasia Sedova. So we work slowly.
SYSTEM
- How did you start working as a coach of the experimental group of the national team?
I started by talking to my guys' personal trainers. Coaching in the national team has its own specifics. Here you are given a ready-made athlete who is already something of himself, who has his own coach with his own training methods. Usually these are completely different methods, completely different approaches to the training process. Here, one cannot row everyone with the same brush, because a certain training system is suitable for someone, not for someone. So, before planning anything, it was necessary to listen to personal trainers, to make sure that the athletes can do this or that job, whether they have a desire to do it. After all, it often happens that an athlete has no desire to do this or that work, to perform this or that load.
We held the first collection in Sarov, because twenty years of statistical data had been accumulated there. This data helped me understand whether my training suits the guys, whether they can train according to my system, because it is fundamentally different from the one they were preparing for. To be honest, at the first training sessions, the people were simply shocked. They could not even imagine that it was possible to train like that. Especially Alevtina Tanygina, her hair just stood on end. But, in the end, everyone got involved, and closer to the end of the training camp, I realized that guys and girls can do such work, and the transition to such a training system will be painless for them.
- You directly intrigued! What is this system that makes athletes' hair stand on end?
In principle, nothing new has been invented for skiers: this is running, rollerblading and cross-country with imitation. Plus, you can also add a bike and rowing. However, these training tools can be combined in completely different ways: in different volumes, different intensities. One exercise, for example, 20 squats, can be done for one minute, or you can stretch it for ten minutes. So my system is to quickly complete all training tasks and processes. But there is one “but”: work at a fairly high intensity, in the third or fourth zone, requires a much more sensitive and attentive attitude towards the athlete on the part of the coach. Having gone over with a load, an athlete can fall into a “pit”, so our work can be called “walking on a knife edge”: on the one hand, you are undertrained, on the other, you are overtrained, and it is very difficult to find a middle ground. True, recently it has not been so difficult to control: heart rate monitors have appeared, into which you can enter individual intensity zones for each athlete. Therefore, training has become much easier. With these devices, and twenty years of experience working with children, it is almost impossible to miss an overtraining. You already simply feel the athlete, you see his mood when going to training, his work during training, his well-being. Much attention is paid to self-control diaries, which are constantly checked.
Our workouts are very short. Compared to other collections, our group trains almost half as much. However, our intensity is slightly higher, we do a lot of work at the ANSP level. The longest training in our group for masters of sports and masters of sports of international class is 2 hours 20 minutes. Almost all of the first workouts we have are developing, the second ones are restorative. In the second training sessions, we train only in the first or second zone, that is, we simply recover, and all the work takes place in the first training sessions. Naturally, there are differences in the construction of the weekly microcycle. If the adult team uses a seven-day microcycle with six training days, one day of rest and unloading in the middle, then our group trains for three days, then there is a rest day, then we train for two more and again a rest day. Moreover, we have a full day of rest.
- Do you have a favorite workout?
No, there is no favorite workout. I view the training process as a whole. My annual plan is drawn in the form of a graph, which shows all the peaks and declines in loads. There is also such a feature: we do not make a jump imitation. All my athletes, if desired, can accelerate their pulse to maximum values on stepping simulation, which, by the way, other coaches do not have. Their athletes are not used to doing this work at such intensity.
Is this some kind of coaching trick?
No, there is no trick, just a habit. This year Kalsin, Shakirzyanov and Vikulin came to me, and at first they didn’t do very well, but then they got involved, got used to it and now they do this work the way I demand of them. They also constantly asked me at first why we train so little. But at the last training camp in Ostrov, everyone improved their last year's results. Andrei Kalsin improved his result by three whole minutes! I was even scared, because such a sharp growth should not be. Tanygina and Shakirzyanov also added a lot. Raul on a six-kilometer circle, and the circle there is very difficult, he won a minute and 50 seconds against himself of the last year's model. It's the same in rollers: compared to last year, the guys are improving a lot, but it's still summer, let's see what happens next.
- What are your future fundraising plans?
Now we are flying to Austria, in the middle mountains. Although I think that the middle mountains are not very necessary for young guys. The middle mountains are needed for such guys as Legkov, Dementiev, Pankratov, Vylegzhanin - that is, for men who are already at a certain high level and who need mountains and a lack of oxygen to take the next step. And juniors, young men, youth can still do without mountains. But if they offer it, then you can go, but you still can’t do a lot of work in the mountains. After all, the body of the guys is not yet mature, and you can “eat” in the mountains so much that you will “stand” then the whole season. All the work there must be done very carefully, and this especially applies to those athletes who have been training with me for many years, for example, Khazova Ira. Here, too, you hold her back in training, because she does the work at too much intensity. The same with Petya Sedov, Zhenya Tikhova, since they have been working on such a system for ten years already. It will be hard with them in the mountains, they must always be kept on a leash, otherwise there will be no result in winter. As for the rest, I think everything will be fine.
GUIDE HELPS
The women's team and the group of Anatoly Chepalov will not go to the mountains, they will hold a training camp in Demino. Did you have the opportunity to give up the mountains?
Yes, of course, there was an opportunity to refuse. None of the management dictates to me how to train, what to do, where to go to the training camp. This is my personal vision, and neither Borodavko, nor Charkovsky, and even more so Loginov, do not interfere in this matter. I have complete freedom of action, and I train as I see fit.
- What is the relationship between the coaches of the national team?
I don’t know how it was before, but now the relations between the coaches of the national team are friendly. I communicate well with Smirnov, and with Borodavko, and with Kaminsky, and with Devyatyarov. And between them, I did not notice any quarrels. Anatoly Chepalov stands a little apart here, but this is just a kind of coach. But he also communicates normally with both Smirnov and Charkovsky.
- Do you report somehow to the head coach?
Necessarily. We write reports to the head coach every month, and this, I think, is right. He collects these reports and sees how our group is preparing, how Smirnov's group is preparing, how Borodavko's group is preparing. It's his job, that's how it should be. Yuri Anatolyevich also helps to solve pressing issues of preparation. For example, on the first snow I had to detach from Borodavko's group and join Smirnov. This is due to Irina Khazova getting into the first stages of the World Cup. The fact is that Yuri Viktorovich is going to Norway for the first snow, and the recruitment of the women's team will take place in Finnish Muonio. To do this, it was necessary to book cottages in Muonio, return tickets to Ramsau, and so on. I just approached Charkovsky, explained the situation, and the situation was resolved. He understands everything perfectly, and whatever we ask, everything is done without any problems.
About Peter SEDOV they say:
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A native of the Sasovsky district of the Ryazan region. In his hometown, he began skiing in the sports section of a high school. Participated in many district and regional school competitions. According to Sedov, ski racing has been accompanying him since then all his life. After serving in the army, Sedov entered the Smolensk State Institute of Physical Culture. He specialized in the department of skiing, where he became interested in coaching. After graduating from the institute, in 1989, together with his wife, master of sports in cross-country skiing, Sedova Elena Sergeevna, by distribution, he was sent to work in a children's and youth sports school in the city of Sarov. Now in Sarov there is one of the strongest ski schools in the country, which was created by Sedov together with his wife.
Work in the Sochi-2014 group
In the 2009-2010 season, he headed the experimental group Vancouver 2010 - Sochi 2014, which was part of the Russian national team and was created on the initiative of Yuri Viktorovich Borodavko in order to prepare a group of young athletes for the 2014 Olympics.
In the experimental group under the leadership of Sedov, during this period they trained:
- Pyotr Sedov - son of Nikolai Evgenievich, five-time world champion among juniors, now a member of the Russian national team;
- Raul Shakirzyanov - the owner of "gold" in the relay and "silver" in the duathlon at the Junior World Championships, now a member of the Russian national team;
- Andrei Kalsin - the owner of "gold" in the relay and "silver" in the freestyle race;
- Pavel Vikulin - the owner of "gold" in the relay and "bronze" in the freestyle race;
- Artyom Maltsev - skier born in 1993, gets into the top fifteen in juniors and won the Russian championship among middle-aged boys;
- Evgenia Tikhova - skier born in 1990, showing good results;
- Alevtina Tanygina - skier born in 1989, skier from Moscow.
- Nastya Sedova is the daughter of Nikolai Evgenievich, a skier born in 1995, who won four races at the Russian Championship for middle-aged girls in Syktyvkar.
In addition to students from his group, Sedov trained multiple world champion among juniors and youth, winner and prize-winner of the World Cup stages Irina Khazova (nee Artyomova) - later the bronze medalist of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.
Work as a head coach of the women's national team of Russia
In the 2010-2011 season, Nikolai Sedov led the Russian women's cross-country skiing team. However, this season, his wards did not achieve serious success, and in the spring of 2011, Nikolai Sedov submitted a letter of resignation, which was granted. At the same time, his son, multiple world junior champion Pyotr Sedov, who had always trained with his father until this year, began training with the country's men's national team under the leadership of Oleg Perevozchikov in the spring of 2011.
To the 100th anniversary of the martyrdom of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin-New
The letters are given in the book of A.A. Taneeva-Vyrubova "Pages of my life"
Sedov N.Ya. mentioned: Letters of the Empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna: N 7. December 15, 1917; N14. January 23rd, 1918
Anya Taneeva is a close friend of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, a special person in the life of the Royal Family, the dearest addressee in the letters of all the August Prisoners. They rejoiced about her, prayed for her, waited for news from her. If they pinned their hopes, it was only with her and her people. Oddly enough, but there was no one else to rely on from all the vast humanity. Anya tried and did everything she could with the help of her friends. Of course, the correspondence with her, and organized by her, brought much joy and relief to the Royal Sufferers.
A person in difficult circumstances removes everything superfluous from himself, only the most important thing remains in the heart. There is no time for sentimentality, if there are warm words for others, then these are words of consolation, encouragement, support. Nothing superfluous - just something that sits firmly in the heart, which has become a part of you, your destiny. The superficial, external, unnecessary, accidental leaves. The most important thing remains in events, thoughts, actions, people. A person over his life acquires connections, acquaintances, friends, likes, dislikes, attachments, ideas, delusions, illusions - just a lot. From this the world of man is woven. But there comes a time when there is a sudden slowdown. The locomotive of life has risen, a person leaves the car, where it was warm, cozy, or not too warm and not too comfortable, good company, or not too, still tolerable, you ride with everyone. There you will laugh, there you will cry, most importantly, together with everyone, in the world, as they say, and death is red. And suddenly, stop, exit at a cold half-station, into loneliness, into emptiness. Then you think only about the good, about what warms you, what can inspire hope, what can console you, or about that, and about those about whom and what your conscience tells you. Heart and conscience. The first, if you love, the second, if you suffer. It's hot, it hurts. Here in the letters to the faithful, kind Anna, the Queen and Her August children remembered those who lived in Their hearts, whom They loved, remembered. Those whose memory could not be destroyed by inexorable rock.
The world of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers, revealed in the letters to Anna Vyrubova, is dear to everyone who loves the Royal Family, for whom talking about Them is important, pleasant and joyful.
Moreover, it was possible to talk about something or someone only with Anya, because no one else understood the Empress in the way that dear Anya understood Her. There were secrets between them that only they could understand.
It is natural to want to know a little more about those who... and about what... stands behind the names of the people mentioned by the Royal Martyrs in the letters. The Empress wanted to know what had become of this one, and where this or that one was. Who are these people? How did they live, why did the Empress, or the Grand Duchesses, or Tsarevich Alexei remember them? Each person is a unique world and at the same time a mystery, fully understood only by God. An era is woven from fate. Through the destinies of people, let us reverently touch Their, the Royal, secret.
More than 150 names are mentioned in the letters from the confinement of the Empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Her Children to Anna Vyrubova. Several have been selected from the entire list for publication. These are the relatives of Grigory Efimovich Rasputin-New: wife, children, second lieutenant Boris Solovyov (son-in-law of Grigory Efimovich), as well as Solovyov's friend and colleague - officer Nikolai Yakovlevich Sedov. One of the goals of this publication is to highlight the faces of people close and beloved by Elder Gregory, as well as to clarify the understanding of the special role of B.N. Solovyov in attempts to liberate the Royal Family, undertaken in 1918.
Sedov Nikolai Yakovlevich, Archimandrite Seraphim (1896 - December 23, 1984, Jerusalem) - staff captain, officer of the Crimean Equestrian E.I.V. Sovereign Empress Alexandra Feodorovna Regiment. He graduated from the Cadet Corps, the Tver Cavalry School (1914). Staff captain of the Crimean equestrian regiment of Her Imperial Majesty Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. There is no information about its origin. Member of the 1st World War. He was wounded in March 1916. He was treated in the Palace Infirmary N 3 ( The infirmary was opened by the Empress Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, was maintained at her expense and with her care. The Tsaritsa, along with her eldest daughters Olga and Tatyana, were listed in the lists of medical personnel as the Highest Sisters of the Romanovs. Therefore, the infirmary began to be called "Her Majesty's Own Infirmary", although officially it did not have such a name.).
In the memoirs and diary entries that have come down to us, no information is given regarding the nature of Sedov's injury. Judging by the fact that on March 16, 1916, he was operated on under general anesthesia, the injury was quite serious. IN AND. Chebotareva, the elder sister of the Palace Infirmary, reports in her diary: “March 16: today, an operation in the presence of Her Majesty Sedov, who has long remained under anesthetic intoxication. He held Tatyana Nikolaevna by the hand, let go only when they said that otherwise the Chief would have to go to the dressing and get tired. The boss remained nearby, Sedov held Her by the hand, carefully covering her with his blanket when he felt an attack of nausea. This state is strange, semi-conscious; answers questions, as if individual centers are working, but coordination has gone on strike. That was crying. He was trying to take off Tatyana Nikolaevna's bracelet. All of them, apparently, were amused by affection, frank tenderness, when a person is incapable of dissembling ... " (Chebotareva V.I. Diary. Quoted from: Chernova O. Decree. Op.).
During this period, Nikolai Sedov was in relation to the Empress, like a child, gentle, affectionate, constantly in need of guardianship and comfort, which he received in abundance both from the Empress herself and from her eldest daughters Olga and Tatiana. The Empress paid him a lot of attention, she spent a lot of time in his room, often at the head, at work or in conversation, even taught Sedov English. In a word, the attitude towards him, as Chebotareva writes, was "amazing", while noting Sedov's naivety, purity and emphasized devotion. (see Chebotareva's diary for May 1916, as well as letters from the Empress to the Sovereign in June 1916).
During the imprisonment of the Royal Family in the Alexander Palace in March 1917, the staff captain N. Sedov was already discharged and was supposed to be at the location of his regiment. But since Sedov maintained relations with Yu.A. von Den, after the removal of the Royal Family to Siberia, which remained with a sick child in Petrograd, it can be assumed that Sedov, like cornet Markov, was also in Petrograd or in its vicinity. Sedov's fellow soldier cornet Sergey Markov, who also kept in touch with Yulia Alexandrovna von Den, risking himself, on his own initiative, was able to get into the Alexander Palace and appear before the Empress at Her full disposal. There is no information as to whether Sedov contacted Tsarskoye Selo or tried to do so.
Meanwhile, in the autumn of 1917 in Petrograd, a member of the right wing of the State Duma, N.E. Markov (Markov 2nd) created a monarchist organization, the purpose of which was to save the Royal Family. Through Yu.A. von Den, he asked for permission for his activities from Nicholas II. The emperor gave a positive answer by sending the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The organization decided to send a person to Tobolsk to establish contact with the Royal Family, obtain information about the situation that had arisen on the spot, “and, if circumstances so require, take her away if she is threatened by something” (from the testimony of Markov to the 2nd investigator N.A. Sokolov. Quoted from: Chernova O. Decree op.)
Yulia Alexandrovna von Den proposed two candidates of devoted officers known to her: Sedov and Markov, of which the first was chosen - Nikolai Sedov, as “a person sincerely and deeply devoted to Their Majesties. He was personally and well known to the Empress. The Emperor also knew him. In choosing, we were guided by the beginning to choose a person who is devoted, reliable and at the same time without a big name ”(characteristic of N.E. Markov). Sedov also received preference as “a more serious, thoughtful, thorough person; at the same time, he was also better known to Their Majesties ”(characteristic of V.I. Sokolov - assistant to N.E. Markov). In a word, Sedov made on Markov the 2nd "the best impression in comparison with / cornet / Markov" (quotes from the testimony of Markov II and his assistant V.I. Sokolov to investigator N.A. Sokolov).
Staff captain Nikolai Sedov went to Siberia in September 1917. He informed N.A. about his arrival in Tyumen. Markov by letter. There was no further news from him. The organization did not know where he was or what he was doing.
There was no news in December. Markov the 2nd, who claimed that he had 150 officers gathered waiting to be sent to Tobolsk, was very worried about the lack of news from Tobolsk from Sedov (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
In one of the letters of the Empress from Tobolsk to Anna Taneeva (Vyrubova) (dated December 15, 1917), there is strange information, apparently related to the period of Sedov’s “disappearance” (October - November 1917): “... Zinochka Tolstaya with husband and children have been in Odessa for a long time - they write very often, touching people ... Little Sedov (remember him) also suddenly found himself in Odessa, saying goodbye to the regiment ... ".
Perhaps the Empress had erroneous information, and perhaps this episode is the reason for Sedov's long silence.
The Sovereign and Empress were informed that Nikolai Sedov had left for them back in September. They were looking forward to him, or at least to hear from him. But five months passed: September, October, November, December, January was ending, but Sedov was still gone.
On January 21, 1918, the Empress wrote to M.S. from Tobolsk. Khitrovo: “I’m still waiting for N.Ya. /Sedova/ see at least from a distance ... ".
On January 23, 1918, the Empress wrote to A.A. Taneva (Vyrubova): “I have no news from Sedov; Lily /den/ I wrote a long time ago that he should have been not far from here.
February passed, March came, and it was already the seventh month since Sedov left Petrograd. Seven months of vain waiting.
And now, from Margarita Khitrovo, strange information again comes to the Tsaritsa, which she shares with her friend Lily Den (Yu.A. von Den): “Rita /Khitrovo/ writes that Nikolai Yakovlevich in Simferopol, together with his friend, the brother of little M. /S.V. Markova/...».
Where was Sedov all this time, in Siberia or in the Crimea?
It is obvious that Sedov was in the Crimea. What prompted him to change the route, this is discussed below. And if Sedov was in the South, he could not help connecting with his regiment. Actually, this was his goal, he did not go there to rest. And if so, then he had to participate one way or another in the last battles of his regiment, and go through a lot before he went to Siberia.
In the Crimea, the following events took place, in which Staff Captain Sedov could take part. In December 1917, the Crimean Cavalry Regiment, as Boris Nikitenko writes, “came in brilliant form in marching order to the Crimea, where by that time a right-wing national government had formed, forming anti-Bolshevik national troops.<...>These young formations soon had to face the Sevastopol sailors and the working Red Guard.<...>The unequal struggle with the enemy, many times his number, ended in disaster.<...>On the night of January 1, 1918 in Simferopol, the Crimean Cavalry Regiment was completely defeated.<...>Sevastopol sailors carried out a bloody massacre on the officers and soldiers. As a result, the regiment lost more than half of its composition, the remnants scattered over the mountains and fled from the Crimea. Many officers were martyred. (Nikitenko. Decree. Op.).
Since Sedov's appearance in the Crimea was not discussed in any way, he decided to keep this fact a secret. This explains the complete lack of information where and how Nikolai Sedov spent several months before he finally ended up in Tyumen in March 1918.
In the meantime, since there was no news from Sedov, the Markov 2nd organization finally decided to send a second candidate to Siberia - cornet Sergei Markov with an assignment to find Sedov, "to enter into relations with him and encourage him to inform us about the progress of his work" (from Markov's testimony to the 2nd investigator N.A. Sokolov).
From the memoirs of S.V. Markov follows that the trip to Tobolsk was his own initiative. He was convinced of the need for this trip: “regardless of whether Markov 2 starts sending people or not, but by all means I will make my way to Tobolsk, because I think that my place is close to Their Majesties.<...>Markov 2nd reacted very sympathetically to this desire of mine, since there was still no news from Sedov, and besides him no one had yet been sent from Petersburg ...<...>From Markov 2nd, I received instructions to find Sedov in Tobolsk and give written information upon arrival at the agreed address, and 240 rubles for the journey. (Markov S.V. Decree. Op.).
Sergei Markov left for Siberia from the Nikolayevsky railway station only on March 1, 1918 (according to New Style). Arriving in Tobolsk, he entered into relations with Archpriest Alexei Vasiliev. Through him and through B.N. Solovyova - son-in-law of G.E. Rasputin-New A.A. Taneeva (Vyrubova) was able to organize the transfer of the necessary things, money and letters for the Royal Family.
“About Sedov at Fr. Vasilyev had no information. In his opinion, he did not come to Tobolsk, otherwise he would have known about it from Their Majesties, since he had free access to their house. Nothing was known about the organization of Markov the 2nd, and he has no connection with it. (Markov S.V. Decree. Op.).
Thus, all this time Sedov did not appear in Tobolsk, he did not communicate with Fr. Alexei Vasiliev, did not go out with Boris Solovyov.
Having received from Fr. Alexei’s blessing, along with information about the situation of the Royal Family, Sergei Vladimirovich hurried to the former house of the Tobolsk governor, and now the “house of freedom”, where he managed to see the Royal Prisoners, just as They saw him.
Through about. Alexei Vasiliev Sergei Markov managed to establish a connection with the key figure in the chain that connected the Royal Family with their friends in the wild - with the son-in-law G.E. Rasputin-New B.N. Solovyov, husband of the eldest daughter of Grigory Efimovich Matryona. For this, S.V. Markov made a trip to the native village of the Rasputins-New Pokrovskoye.
For the purposes of conspiracy, S.V. Markov had to settle in Tyumen and join the Red Army as a cavalry instructor to form a cavalry unit. This position made it possible to recruit officers whose arrival was expected from St. Petersburg.
With the advent of Sergei Markov, things got off the ground. But precious six months were lost.
And only in April Sedov suddenly appeared. Markov literally ran into him in Tyumen at a pharmacy on the main street. The sight of Sedov struck Sergei Vladimirovich:
“Instead of a well-groomed staff captain, always immaculately shaven, with a sweet, inviting face, blue-gray eyes always laughing, I saw a uniform ragamuffin in a greasy wadded jacket, gray-blue patched trousers, and oily boots. A holey cap barely covered his disheveled hair, and his mustache, which had not been trimmed for a long time, ended in a goat beard ...
I couldn't believe my eyes, even the expression on my face had changed so much. His face was pained, the light in his eyes went out. Sedov recognized me, followed me out of the drugstore and into the street, and on a side street we agreed to meet immediately at Solovyov's.
An hour later, the three of us were sitting in the hotly heated room of the old mistress Solovyov in front of a cozy samovar, singing its song. Solovyov was no less glad than I was to meet Sedov. He had to endure a lot while he arrived in Tyumen, where he was only the third week. He came here to legalize his position as a laborer in the trade union, and as such he got a job with a Tyumen landlord, where he has been to this day.
The unfortunate Sedov, apparently, had to receive a huge nervous shock from the experience, his heightened nervousness was felt in everything, and the fear of being identified led to the fact that he completely lost his usual manners of a secular person and turned into a real boor, with proper tricks and even a manner of speaking and express your thoughts. He lost contact with Markov 2nd, and to this day he has not been able to establish it. We informed Sedov of the situation and, together with him, discussed our plans again and came to the same conclusion that there was nothing else to do but wait for the arrival of officers from the organization and, with the help of the first to arrive, inform Markov II of the situation. Sedov decided to remain in his position and not join the squadron, but he approved of my acceptance of the position of commander. Remaining a laborer, Sedov was freer to dispose of himself and, moreover, was brilliantly disguised, both from the outside and in relation to the documents that he had in perfect order. Sedov's sincere desire was to go to Tobolsk to see Their Majesties, which he soon fulfilled. (Markov S.V. Decree op.)
On April 4/17, 1918, Sergei Markov and Boris Solovyov were arrested and both were imprisoned. Solovyov's wife Mara Grigorievna (as Sergei Markov called her) came to Tyumen. April 12/25 Solovyov was summoned to a meeting with her. From Mary Grigorievna, who received information from Tobolsk, Boris Nikolaevich learned about the removal of the Royal Family and was extremely depressed by this news: “It’s all over, they are being transported!” (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
While S. Markov and B. Solovyov were in prison, “Sedov, having learned about the arrival of a new detachment in Tobolsk, decided to go there, which he did, leaving Tyumen on the 26th. On the way in one village, approximately in the middle of the way, he, to his horror, met Their Majesties, who were being transported to Tyumen. He was present at the transfer of Their Majesties' horses and was not far from Them, so that the Empress recognized him. (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
In the diary of the Empress dated April 14/27, 1918, there is an entry: “Beautiful weather, but the road is disgusting ... In the village of Borki, they drank tea with our provisions in a beautiful peasant house. Leaving the village, they suddenly accidentally met Staff Captain N. Sedov on the street.
Vel. Princess Maria Nikolaevna in a letter to Z.S. Tolstoy from Yekaterinburg on May 4/17, 1918: “... We just left before the holidays. It was very unexpected for us. Alexei was sick, so the sisters had to stay with him... Tell Rita /Khitrovo/ that not very long ago we saw fleetingly little Sedyusha ... " .
Vel. Princess Olga, in a letter to Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov dated April 14/27, reported that Tsarevich Alexei had not yet recovered from the bruise he received in the tenth of April. For this reason, the Heir with Vel. remained in Tobolsk as princesses" (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
Sedov “wanted to return to Tyumen, but concern for the rest of the members of the Imperial Family (he did not immediately understand the reasons for the absence of the Heir and the remaining Grand Duchesses) made him drive to Tobolsk, where he saw everyone except the Heir, in the windows of the house.
He was afraid to get in touch with any of the retinue, since near the governor's house, as well as near Kornilov's house, where the children of the medical doctor Botkin lived, he saw a large number of soldiers of both the old and the new detachment that remained in Tobolsk, so as soon as a small part of him accompanied Their Majesties.
Sedov had no choice but to go back. On the 29th he was already in Tyumen. (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
Sam N.Ya. Sedov, when testifying to investigator Sergeev on 11/22/1918, reported the following details: “The train consisted of three troikas with machine guns and machine gunners, the Sovereign and Commissar Yakovlev rode on the next troika, followed by a troika with the Empress and V. K. Maria Nikolaevna, then a troika with Botkin and Prince Dolgorukov; at the end of the train there were troikas with servants and then with Red Army soldiers.
I met the train with the Sovereign in the village of Dubrovno / 50-60 versts from Tobolsk /.
The queen recognized me and made the sign of the cross over me!”
In Tobolsk, on behalf of Solovyov, Sedov saw Fr. Alexey Vasiliev. The purpose of the visit is to receive "10,000 rubles from the amount of money that Vasiliev was supposed to bring from Petrograd." Father Alexei did not give money to Sedov, and Sedov returned to Tyumen, reporting everything to Solovyov and arousing his displeasure about. Alexey. (See protocol of interrogation of N.Ya. Sedov by Sergeev.)
As follows from the memoirs of T.E. Melnik-Botkina, Sedov in Tobolsk saw not only Fr. Alexei, but also with her, Tatyana Botkina, and with her brother Gleb, but for some reason did not tell S. Markov about this. Why - it will become clear from the following presentation.
So, Sedov left Tyumen on the very day when the Sovereign, Empress and Vel. Princess Maria Nikolaevna was taken by Commissar Yakovlev from Tobolsk in the direction of Tyumen. The long-awaited meeting of the Royal Family with Staff Captain Sedov finally took place, but under what circumstances ... This meeting no longer inspired hope and could not inspire or console anyone. For this meeting summed up what had been accomplished during that period of time (eight months), which was allotted by fate for the salvation of the Royal Family. The only exact definition of the situation that arose completely unexpectedly for Sedov is the word: "late."
S.V. Markov was released on Easter Day (April 22/May 5, 1918, o.s.). Sedov came to Markov at the hotel to congratulate him on his release. From the Red Army soldier Simonenko, who replaced Markov as commander of the red squadron, they learned the details of the transfer of Their Majesties to Tyumen. Simonenko, with 15 red lancers, escorted the Sovereign and Empress to the station, meeting them 20 miles from Tyumen. Simonenko summed up his story with the following words: “... if someone wanted to take the Sovereign from us, he could do it with ease, you just had to have the courage!”
“The final phrase of Simonenko almost broke through the despair and grief that had accumulated in me, and it took me great difficulty to restrain myself. How right, though involuntarily, Simonenko was; but was it easy to save Them only on the way?.. And in Tobolsk? What did Their Majesties think and experience during the move?” - S.V. was so tormented. Markov, having learned the details from Simonenko (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
And it was from what. The Red Squadron was formed by S.V. Markov, and if he had been staffed with officers, as Markov initially assumed, then the rescue would have become a "technical matter." But the officers from Petrograd never arrived for a number of reasons, one of which was the disappearance and prolonged silence of Sedov. S.V. Markov summarized the situation as follows: “There was no organization capable of taking Their Majesties out, and it could not be formed during the week of our stay in prison” (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
The next day, Markov, Sedov, Solovyov and Mara Grigoryevna received even more difficult news. Markov writes: “I did not find the expected Easter mood among the Solovyovs, I found Boris Nikolaevich gloomy and embittered, Mara Grigorievna had a tearful and dejected look.
The news that Boris Nikolayevich told me struck me like a thunderbolt. Their Majesties were detained in Yekaterinburg. The reasons were unknown, this detention did not bode well.<...>All appeals and appeals of the Yekaterinburg Regional Council of Deputies, handed over to us, were of an extreme and irreconcilable direction. Krasny Ekaterinburg and Krasny Ural declared themselves "citadels of the revolution"" (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
According to information received by Solovyov from Tobolsk, the removal of Their Majesties by Commissar Yakovlev was preceded by complete confusion. Between the various detachments, representing all kinds of revolutionary groups, not always subordinate to the Bolshevik center, there was a struggle, the meaning of which was to establish control over Their Majesties. These detachments acted separately and were at enmity with each other. One of the contenders for power was Zaslavsky, who “took the most irreconcilable position towards the Imperial Family. He was Jewish by nationality.<...>Zaslavsky sought to seize power over Their Majesties in his own hands. (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
There was a detachment from Omsk, led by Commissar Dutsman. There was an armed clash between the two groups. Arriving in Tobolsk, Dutsman declared himself the head of the guards of the Imperial Family, and the commissar of the city, but soon returned to Omsk. A certain Degtyarev remained in charge in Tobolsk. The person who was not subordinate to the Soviet of Deputies and pursued an independent line was Commissar Zapkus. After the removal of the Tsar and Tsarina, Commissar Rodionov, who arrived in Tobolsk with a detachment of Latvians from Yekaterinburg, became the chairman of the detachment committee of the old guard. Thus, "Kobylinsky lost completely the already illusory power over his subordinates" (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
Against the backdrop of complete confusion, it was not possible to create any capable officer organization that could intervene and change the balance of power. S.V. Markov writes: “No one came from St. Petersburg during our arrest, and Sedov had no answer to his letters.<...>The stubborn silence of Petersburg, completely incomprehensible to us, plunged us into dull despondency. Two months have passed since my departure, and not to mention the large number of officers promised to me by Markov 2nd, even Andreevsky and Greenwald, for whom A. Vyrubova got the money that were supposed to come after me, did not come. (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
Markov, Solovyov and Sedov make the following decision: Markov, as he intended, enters the service in the Red Squadron. This was necessary in case officers nevertheless arrived from Petrograd: “the initial legalization of officers upon their arrival through their admission to the squadron will give us the opportunity to obtain documents with which they will be able to concentrate in the Yekaterinburg region and in the city itself” (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
Regarding Sedov: “If no one from St. Petersburg arrives by the end of Fomina’s week and we don’t receive any news from there, then Sedov will personally go there and inform Markov 2nd in every detail, and A. Vyrubova about the unbearably difficult situation that has arisen” (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
On May 12, news was received through Boris Nikolaevich Solovyov that Tsarevich Alexei was recovering, Kobylinsky was “finally circumcised in his rights”, and his replacement should be expected, that Their Majesties are still in Yekaterinburg, in the Ipatiev house, “which is surrounded by double a wooden fence above the windows," as well as the fact that they are in the power of Commissar Goloshchekin. Solovyov failed to establish a connection with the Tsar and Tsaritsa.
In view of the circumstances, it was decided that Sedov immediately left for St. Petersburg in order to inform the head of the organization, Markov II, on the spot about the difficult situation that had arisen, and to convince him of the need to involve the German government to save the Royal Family, as the last and only means, since the possibility of saving the Royal Family from Yekaterinburg on their own, as S.V. Markov, was "insignificant".
“Boris Nikolaevich asked Sedov to inform A. Vyrubova about everything.<...>On the 14th, Sedov left Tyumen for Yekaterinburg in order to clarify on the spot the situation in which Their Majesties were, and from there to Petersburg. (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
On May 19 Solovyov received word that the old guards in Tobolsk had been replaced by a detachment of Commissar Rodionov.
On May 20, Tsarevich Alexei, with the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatyana and Anastasia and the rest of their retinue, left on a steamer for Tyumen, and from there by train to Yekaterinburg. They were accompanied by Commissar Rodionov.
On May 23, early in the morning, Their Highnesses arrived in Yekaterinburg and were transferred to Their Majesties at the Ipatiev House.
Meanwhile, having arrived in Petrograd, Sedov met with Markov II.
Markov N.E.: “N arrived later /N.Ya. Sedov/. From his report, I saw that he did absolutely nothing to establish contact with the royal family; that he never visited Tobolsk when the Sovereign Emperor was there, and went there only when Their Majesties and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna were traveling from Tobolsk. (From the testimony of Markov N.E. data in Reichenhall on June 2, 1921 to the investigator Sokolov N.A. Quoted from: Sokolov N.A. Decree op.).
Sokolov V.I. - Markov's assistant on the 2nd: “About the end of April, N arrived /N.Ya. Sedov/. From his report it turned out that he absolutely did not fulfill anything from the instructions that were assigned to him in relation to the royal family ...<...>N was pointed out by us that he did not do what was assigned to him, and he felt embarrassed.” (From the testimony of Sokolov V.I., given in Reichenhall on June 3, 1921, to the investigator Sokolov N.A. Quoted from: Sokolov N.A. Decree op.).
It looks like N.Ya. Sedov remained true to himself and was in no hurry to send information to Siberia, at least that he had safely reached Petrograd. Perhaps he did not have time to do this, because during his second visit to Markov II he was arrested and imprisoned in Kresty prison, from where he managed to get out only a month later.
B.N. continued to remain under investigation. Solovyov, although he was released from prison on bail of 500 rubles, which Mara Grigorievna contributed. Without waiting for the trial of the case in the tribunal, which was scheduled for early June, on the advice of Sergei Markov, Boris Nikolaevich and his wife hid in Pokrovsky.
S.V. Markov began to prepare the ground for leaving the service, "continuing which he considered clearly senseless", believing that "the only possible salvation of the Imperial Family is the decisive intervention in Their fate by the German government" (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
Two weeks have passed since Sedov's departure. No information was received from him. Markov and Solovyov were completely unaware of the situation of the Markov organization and of S.V. Markov steps. Therefore, Sergei Vladimirovich, who by that time had already parted with the red squadron, decided to go to Petrograd himself to meet with Markov 2nd, present all his observations and bleak conclusions on the spot and try to convince Markov 2nd to turn to the Germans for help, as the only possible and last chance to save the Royal Family.
On July 1, 1918 he arrived in Yekaterinburg. From the inspection of the Ipatiev House, he made the following impressions: “Three times I approached him from all sides and made sure that there was nothing to save Their Majesties by armed means from this building!
Such an attempt will inevitably end in their death. The Ipatiev house was a trap from which there was no way out, and the attempt could have had a chance of success only if the guard consisted of half of its people, and even then this attempt would have been exposed to incredible risk, since the position of the house in the center of the city made it very difficult to take them out" (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
Three for S.V. Markov left Yekaterinburg by train for Petrograd.
On July 7, he arrived in Petrograd, where Sergei Vladimirovich had to learn about the defeat of the Markov organization on the 2nd and about the arrest of Sedov (this happened around June 7). Crosses Sedov was released from prison a month later. Sergei Markov writes: “I immediately went to a familiar apartment on Vasilyevsky Island. When I rang the bell and the door was opened for me, an old woman ran out to me, the owner of the apartment, who, seeing me, waved her hands in horror and, worried, said that I should leave as soon as possible, since the house was under surveillance and that it was repeatedly searched. Markov 2nd and Viktor Pavlovich barely managed to escape, and during one of the searches they arrested Sedov, who happened to be with them on business, but after keeping him in Kresty for about a month, he was fortunately released.<...>
The next morning I had Sedov, who found out about my arrival, and who told me that a week after his arrival from Tyumen, he was arrested during a search in the house where we were meeting. Markov 2nd and Sokolov / assistant to Markov 2nd/ happened to be absent at that time. They were promptly warned about what had happened and managed to hide in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. He believed that Markov 2nd must have been in Finland, since, with all his desire, he had been unable to meet him for about two weeks now.
Even before his arrest, Sedov managed to inform Markov II of the situation that had arisen in connection with the transfer of the Imperial Family to Yekaterinburg, but did not see any positive results from his conversation. Everything went on as before... Markov 2nd told him that to this day he had not had the means to send people, that when he got it, everything would go according to plan... Sedov also said that Markov 2 th took decisive steps in the summer to save Their Majesties by water, but that the transfer of Their Majesties radically destroyed all his calculations.
Sedov, on the other hand, was saved from certain death during his arrest by his Tyumen documents. He managed to prove to his comrades that he came to the house where he was arrested, to be hired by the mistress for menial work, and they released him from Kresty ten days before my arrival.
His only desire is now to return to Yekaterinburg, in order to be close to Their Majesties.
I told Sedov about everything that happened in Tyumen after his departure, about my Yekaterinburg impressions and told him my opinion that only Germany at the moment was in a position to interfere in the fate of the Imperial Family. If I fail to establish contacts with Markov 2nd and get decisive steps from him in favor of Their Majesties from the Germans, with whom he probably has contact, then I myself, at my own risk, will turn to the Brother of the Empress, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, with a request for immediate assistance, outlining sincerely everything I saw during my stay in Siberia. To my question, does Sedov know that, perhaps, Markov 2nd nevertheless entered into contact with the Germans on this occasion, he answered me in the negative, since he did not speak of anything like that from Markov 2nd. heard.
His desire was to contact the forward detachments of the Cossack units advancing on Yekaterinburg as soon as possible, find like-minded people among them and, with their help, wrest the Royal Family from the hands of the Bolsheviks. He fully agreed with me that a raid on the Ipatiev House was impossible, that if Ekaterinburg was in danger, the Bolsheviks would first of all take Their Majesties out of it, and then, during the transfer, it might be possible to try to save Them.
I had little faith in the possibility of carrying out such a plan. The Bolsheviks would have carried out the removal of Their Majesties by rail, and for this it was necessary to make a lightning deep breakthrough into the rear of Yekaterinburg in order to prevent the Imperial Family from being taken far away. All this is very difficult, but, in extreme cases, it was possible to decide on this. I personally saw the main danger in the fact that to this day Their Majesties have not been taken out of Yekaterinburg, and They continued to be in the hands of Siberian convicts.
I did not dissuade Sedov and wished him a happy journey and complete success.
It has been ten years since the last time I saw my fellow soldier and friend. How often do I remember this knight without fear and reproach, sincerely and unselfishly devoted to Their Majesties! (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
At the end of September 1917, Sedov reappeared in Tobolsk and, as follows from his testimony to investigator Sergeyev, he stayed in the apartment of Professor Botkin's children.
On November 22, 1917, in Yekaterinburg, Nikolai Yakovlevich, according to investigator Sokolov, of his own free will, appeared before a member of the court, I.A. Sergeyev, who was conducting an investigation into the circumstances of the disappearance of the Royal Family, and gave him evidence .
In these testimonies of his, Nikolai Yakovlevich, without noting the activities of cornet Markov, focused all his attention on B.N. Solovyov and about. Alexey Vasiliev. It was said that Solovyov "is at the head of an organization that has set as its goal the protection of the interests of the Royal Family by monitoring the living conditions of the Sovereign, supplying them with various products and things, and, finally, taking measures to eliminate people harmful to the Royal Family." And then Sedov provided rather ambiguous information, which, if desired, could be interpreted in any way: “According to Solovyov, all sympathizers with the tasks and goals of this organization should have come to him before proceeding to assist the Royal Family; otherwise, said Solovyov, I impose a "veto". Absolutely fair, understandable, absolutely correct and justified in those circumstances, the position of Solovyov. It could not be otherwise, if the task was to maintain secrecy, not to break firewood and to give the efforts a truly organized, purposeful character, as opposed to chaotic, blind actions, which create the basis for any provocations and bring all efforts to naught.
Nothing reprehensible was said about Solovyov, only the very fact of focusing attention only on his activities is strange.
About about. Alexei Vasilyev also had a lot to say. There were no direct accusations, but the general color of the presentation suggests that Fr. Alexey Vasilyev is a personality type close to a scammer. Firstly, he boasted that he kept many things that belonged to members of the Royal Family: the act of abdication of the Sovereign, His letters, documents and a rifle, three brownings, one of them with the royal monogram, the Tsarevich’s broadsword, and, allegedly, about . Alexey was going to use all these relics for personal purposes. According to Sedov, Fr. Alexei disposed of the money that was transferred to him for the Royal Family, but did not give Sedov the amount intended for Solovyov, and Solovyov, in connection with this, “speak badly as Fr. Alexei and his sons, calling them "speculators", and claiming that he has evidence of their bad deeds.
In a word, typical slander, but there is no direct accusation.
In the same vein, but with a greater accusatory emphasis, the activities of Solovyov and Fr. Vasiliev in the testimony of Markov 2nd and his assistant Sokolov given to investigator N.A. Sokolov. Although the interrogations were carried out in 1921, the basis of this testimony was the story of Sedov during his arrival in Petrograd in June 1918.
NOT. Markov: "From his /Sedova/ words, it was quite clear that in some way he was completely subjugated in Tyumen by Solovyov, who prevented him from going to Tobolsk /?!/ and released him /?!/ only when the Sovereign was already leaving Tobolsk. The very fact of the subordination of the will of N to the will of Solovyov was obvious: it was proved by the behavior of N; besides, he talked about it himself. By what means Solovyov achieved this, I do not know.
Markov 2 was echoed by his assistant Sokolov: “... having arrived in Tyumen, he /Sedov/ somehow got along with Solovyov and was entirely guided by his instructions, and Solovyov dissuaded him from going to Tobolsk and doing anything in general, assuring him that everything was arranged for him, that he was in relations with the royal family, that staying in Tobolsk N could only damage case. I don’t remember whether N told him about threats from Solovyov if he did not obey his demands, but it turned out that N did not obey us, but Solovyov.
There is an accusatory motive. Moreover, the testimony practically coincides, it is clear that they were discussed in advance by Markov N.E. and Sokolov V.I., who agreed on what topics and in what vein to give in their testimony.
For some time Sedov served in Omsk, then, according to Lieutenant K.S. Melnik, staff captain Sedov went to the Volunteer Army of General Denikin " (Minutes of the interrogation of Melnik.).
Court member Sergeev was replaced by investigator N.A. Sokolov. Apparently, Sokolov did not conduct repeated interrogations of Sedov: such protocols are not known. In his book, Sokolov also cites only those testimony of Sedov that were given to Sergeyev.
It is possible that Sokolov could not interrogate Sedov directly in view of his absence, but he interrogated people who knew him. And the first of them was Lieutenant Konstantin Semenovich Melnik, married to the daughter of the life physician E.S. Botkin. As already noted, Sedov stayed at the Botkins' apartment in September 1918. The interrogation was carried out by lieutenant Poplavsky on behalf of investigator Sokolov on November 2, 1919. Lieutenant K.S. The miller testified that he had seen Lieutenant Solovyov once on the street in Tobolsk (i.e., he practically did not know him), but he was aware of his activities from the words of the staff captain of the Crimean cavalry regiment Nikolai Yakovlevich Sedov, second lieutenant Markovsky Arkady Alekseevich. Further, the same topic of appropriation by Solovyov and Vasiliev of money transferred by various persons for the Royal Family is developed, that there was no organization to save the Royal Family declared by Solovyov (he did not set such a task, this task was solved by Markov 2nd with the help of Markov's cornet and lieutenant Sedov, but not Solovyov) that the priest Vasilyev, getting drunk drunk, tells everyone everything and gives rise to rumors in the city, which provoked the removal of the Royal Family from Tobolsk and the tightening of their regime. It is very important that Melnik attributes information about the existence of 300 trained officers not to Solovyov, but to ordinary rumors that no one knows who spread in the city. That is, there were no statements from Solovyov that Solovyov gathered 300 people for him, these are rumors.
But the accusatory motive in Melnik’s testimony intensifies even more, acquiring absolutely incredible details, which are again attributed to Sedov: “When I asked why Sedov obeyed Solovyov so much, Sedov told me that Solovyov told him about how he betrayed two officers to the Tyumen “Soviet Deputy "for the fact that these officers went to Tobolsk without Solovyov's permission. These officers were seconded by one of the organizations in Tobolsk, about which Solovyov could not be unaware. Solovyov told Sedov that he would hand over all the officers going to Tobolsk without his permission to the “Soviet Deputies.”
Why should Solovyov tell a military officer that he is betraying his fellow officers to the Soviet of Deputies, thereby making a confession that he, Solovyov, is a traitor and provocateur? Complete nonsense. Why didn't Sedov tell his friend Cornet Markov or his boss Markov II about this? Complete nonsense. And since this is nonsense, and its appearance must be somehow explained, the motive for subjugating Sedov's will appears either by hypnosis, or by some other mysterious way.
On behalf of the head of the Primorsky regional department of state protection of Vladivostok, Lieutenant Loginov E.K. In this report, staff captain N.Ya. Sedov is mentioned as a witness that B.N. Solovyov lied to the Tsar and Tsaritsa.
In his book "The Murder of the Royal Family" N.A. Sokolov on the basis of the testimony of Melnik, Markova N.E. Sokolova and others, with reference to the testimonies of N.Ya. Sedov, although obtained through third parties, characterizes Lieutenant B.N. Solovyov, as a provocateur, an unscrupulous deceiver and a swindler, who embezzled large sums of money destined for the Royal Family, and handed over officers to the Soviet of Deputies.
The trend is clear - the primary information received from Sedov and taken as a basis turned into acts of accusation against the "provocateur" Boris Solovyov and his "accomplice" priest Alexei Vasiliev, who were blamed for the failure to create an officer organization and the failure of all efforts to save the Tsarskaya Families. The primary source of all these accusations was the staff captain of Her Majesty's Crimean Regiment Nikolai Yakovlevich Sedov.
The turn in Sedov's biography is, to put it mildly, quite unexpected. A detailed acquaintance with the circumstances of the activities of both Nikolai Sedov, and Boris Solovyov, and Sergei Markov, which are beautifully set out in the book of the cornet S.V. Markov's "The Abandoned Royal Family" do not give any grounds or even hints for such thoughts in relation to Solovyov, as, indeed, in relation to Sedov.
True, there are two oddities in the book of the investigator Sokolova "The Murder of the Royal Family". Firstly, the name of staff captain Sedov is not mentioned even once in the book. Instead, there is a mysterious letter N, although it is not difficult for a person familiar with the material to guess that it is about Sedov. Secondly, all the information that comes from Sedov is given from the words of third parties. There is no evidence of his own, apart from those given to investigator Sergeev.
But in those early testimony it is difficult to find anything that could be presented to Solovyov as indisputable guilt, and the information itself is very scarce. But, as already mentioned, Sedov's brief primary testimony was deftly turned into indisputable evidence of the guilt of Solovyov (mainly) and Vasiliev.
Why and who needed it? In short, it was necessary to somehow justify the failure of all the combined efforts to save the Royal Family.
General Dieterikhs: “In the matter of organizing the rescue of the former Tsar and the Royal Family ... few people approached the resolution of the issue only from a philanthropic point of view. Almost every one of those who thought about saving or kidnapping the Royal Family carried his own ... political principles that underlay the goal of saving and further developing the state building of the future, liberated, Russia ... And they were for him dominant over all other circumstances and considerations ... no matter how sad and terrible ... "" (Quoted by: Chernova O. Decree. Op.)
But what are these "dominating principles"? In short, on Boris Solovyov, the son-in-law of the hated Rasputin, anger was vented, which actually served as both a pretext and a reason for committing atrocities against Tsar Nicholas II and His Family long before the intervention of the Bolsheviks. Even without a thorough investigation, it becomes clear why the Royal Family was not saved. Both the coordinators and many of those who were involved in the field simply did not have enough motivation. It was necessary to do something, to risk oneself, to approach the matter creatively and energetically, but everything was done too sluggishly. Passive mood was determined by a simple thought: in fact, whom to save? The German queen, through whom the grey-pawed peasant Rasputin led her weak-willed husband. Many were ready to save and saved their own convictions, but not real people, endowed with royal power from God, and whom they hated, who is hidden, who is open.
Solovyov turned out to be in the role of a "scapegoat" or "whipping boy", on which the accumulated negative emotions were vilely vented. Assistance in this performance, voluntarily or involuntarily, was provided by Sedov.
Sedov gave a reason to use it. This occasion was not solid, rather superficial, his testimony is far-fetched. Therefore, Sokolov did not dare to openly indicate the name of Sedov in his book as a witness, and therefore brought him under the letter "N".
But there was still some reason. Nikolai Sedov allowed ambiguity in the interpretation of his testimony and testimonies, and, apparently, he did it intentionally. Why did this happen?
If he gave a reason to use his name for the unworthy purposes of discrediting an innocent person, then the reasons for what happened were precisely this - the instability of character, the weakness of the nervous system, the impulsiveness of the psyche, exposed to external influences.
Perhaps this explains his disappearance and long silence in the autumn of 1917, when everyone was looking forward to hearing from him. It turns out that Sedov, having received the task, decided to change his route and call in Odessa "to say goodbye to the regiment." Whether he himself decided on this is unlikely. Rather, his action is the result of a meeting with one of his colleagues who persuaded Sedov to go south.
He did not have to do this, because he took upon himself the obligation, because a lot depended on him and people were waiting for the results of his trip to Tobolsk, and because the goal of Sedov's assignment was nothing more, nothing less - the salvation of the Royal Family.
And Sedov pushed all this into the background, for the sake of a trip to his regiment.
Perhaps he was obliged to do this, that is, to officially ask for leave so as not to become a deserter, because he is an officer - a man of duty. But time, wasted time! Something had to be sacrificed, but Sedov did not sacrifice his reputation and lost several precious months, led people by the nose for so much time, simply let them down, in order to comply with the form. What can be higher than the debt of salvation of God's Anointed One and His Family? But the will of Staff Captain Sedov turned out to be enslaved by a falsely understood sense of military-corporate duty.
Nikolai Sedov's friendship with cornet Sergei Markov and lieutenant Boris Solovyov was severely tested, which Sedov, apparently, could not bear.
In the spring of 1918, during his second visit to Tobolsk, Sedov met with the children of the life physician E.S. Botkin Tatyana and Gleb, who lived in the Kornilov house (opposite the Governor's house). Hatred of Rasputin in the Botkin family was too pronounced, which was reflected in the memoirs of Tatyana Melnik-Botkina. This hatred suddenly fell upon the head of poor Sedov. Gleb Botkin, recognizing Nikolai Sedov in a dirty, ragged peasant, had a heart-to-heart talk with him as follows: “Your Solovyov is a swindler! Glebushka shouted at the officer, who was taken aback by such pressure. - How could you trust Rasputin's son-in-law!<...>This priest /about. Alexey Vasiliev/ works for reds. He lied to you.<...>... /Sedov/ Without saying a word, he rushed down the stairs and disappeared. (Melnik-Botkina T.E. Decree. Op.).
Despite the fact that Sedov knew both Sergei Markov and Nikolai Solovyov very well, working with them in one bundle, the meeting with Gleb Botkin made a fatal impression on him. It was with the influence of the son of the life doctor E.S. Botkin Gleb Botkin is connected by the historian S.V. Fomin's turn in the soul of Sedov (Fomin S.V. Decree. Op.).
Sedov’s will turned out to be relaxed when, in June 1918, having arrived in Petrograd to Markov 2nd and having heard from Markov 2nd an accusation of inaction, staff captain Sedov, in order to somehow justify himself, covered himself with Solovyov and tried to blame him guilt. Sedov put into the hands of Markov II the idea of "Soloviev's provocateurism." This idea was also effectively used by Markov the 2nd, in order to cover up Solovyov's own mediocre activity (more precisely, inactivity).
Later, S. V. Markov exposed the crafty position of Markov the 2nd: “It is also incomprehensible that, having learned in the spring of 1918 from N. Ya. And, knowing my Tyumen address, he did not warn me at the same time that I should be more careful in dealing with him. Nor did he say this when I arrived in Petersburg in July 1918. At this time, he preferred to hide from me, "fearing me as an active collaborator of the provocateur Solovyov" (Markov S.V. Decree op.).
Sedov's information about Solovyov, the uncertainty and ambiguity contained in them, gave grounds to investigator Sokolov to completely discredit Solovyov and secure the name "provocateur" behind him in history.
But did Sedov really not know that this was not so? Among the rescue officers, two figures can be distinguished, like many other officers who loved the Royal Family so much that they were ready to sacrifice themselves for them, but at the same time respectful and attentive to the convictions of the Empress and the Sovereign, and to those people whom they loved and in this their love is more perfect. This is cornet Sergei Markov and lieutenant Boris Solovyov.
Solovyov did not at all claim the role of coordinator or chief commander. He acted in proportion to the situation, as a man who knew this situation best of all and sought to prevent fatal mistakes from being made. Rather, Solovyov performed purely practical tasks: the transfer of correspondence and money, as well as a very important role - the collection of information regarding the situation of the Royal Family and events on the ground that were directly related to them. From the story of S.V. Markov, it is obvious that it was on this information received either by Solovyov or his wife Mara Grigorievna that all the activities of Markov and Sedov were built.
Sedov could not have been unaware of this. But why, in his entire life, did he not give a refutation to false accusations, why did he not stand up for the honor of his friend, who helped him himself to enter his name in the list of those who served their Crowns to the end?
Nikolai Sedov, having testified on November 22, 1918, to the investigator Sergeev, served in Omsk, then with Denikin. Emigrated via Constantinople to France (1921). Then "among 40 thousand Russian emigrants, he ended up in Czechoslovakia."
Nikolai Yakovlevich Sedov became the cell-attendant of Archbishop Sergius of Prague (Korolev), who was entrusted with the spiritual care of Orthodox parishes. According to the memoirs of Metropolitan Evlogy, Bishop Sergius was “modest, simple, humble,<...>possessed a rare gift to rally around him the most opposite people: noble and ignoble, scientists and unlearned, rich and poor, right and left - all united around him into a friendly family.
In 1929 N.Ya. Sedov was tonsured a monk, a hierodeacon.
From the memoirs of Igor Nikishin: "Vladyka Sergius (Archbishop of Prague Sergius (Korolev) loved the solemnity, order, "glory" of worship. The accuracy of the movements of the clergy was impeccable, the combination of colors of vestments, surplice, lecterns and chandeliers was considered very important, and the service was "synchronized" to the smallest detail. Nikolai Yakovlevich, with his military drill, created divine services in Prague, with which few could be compared in beauty abroad. "You can be baptized, Igor, only when indicated, - this is Nikolai Yakovlevich to a six-year-old co-worker. - You will start to shift from foot to foot, to be baptized bow, when you stand in front of the iconostasis, you will distract the attention of those praying b. You will be noticed, not the beauty of the service. And turns, so that they are over the inner shoulder, when in a pair, and over the left shoulder, when alone, and so that the bow of the earth is one movement - down and back, and do not swing when you walk, with a full foot, with a small step ... and so that the movements are clear, then you will not interfere with those who pray " (Quoted by: Chernova O. Decree op.).
From the memoirs of Tamara Pavlovna Milyutina, who visited Prague in 1929: “The conversation between Vladyka Sergius and his mother was long. First, at the tea table - this is how Vladyka usually received everyone, hosting himself, pouring tea and treating them to jam. Then I was sent to the kitchen, snow-white and clean, where Father Seraphim, Vladyka's cell-attendant, was making apricot jam in a large copper basin.
Father Seraphim was a white officer in the past. He and several young officers hoped to free the Royal Family, but it was too late. He came to Vladyka in the utmost despair, on the verge of suicide. The Lord saved him" (Quoted by: Chernova O. Decree op.).
“Although becoming Vladyka's cell-attendant did not mean becoming a monk. Dmitry Zhelnin, a student at the University of Tartu, was also a cell-attendant with Archbishop Sergius before taking the tonsure. He had been in correspondence with Vladyka for a long time, but only in Prague did he realize that the strict demands that his spiritual father makes of himself and his novices are not capable of bearing. Vladyka let Dmitry go home with love and blessing. But Nikolai Yakovlevich remained and, in the words of Vladyka, “by everyday victories he reached joy and such a state that brings light to everyone and to him ...” (Chernova O. Decree Op.).
Father Seraphim “joined the brethren of the monastery of St. Job in Ladomirovo (Transcarpathian Rus). Member of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, ordained to the priesthood at the Holy Sepulcher, hieromonk (until 1939), sacristan of the Trinity Cathedral of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem (until 1948)." Archimandrite. Returned to Western Europe. In 1949-1951, the assistant to the rector of the courtyard of the monastery, Ven. Job in Po (dep. Atlantic Pyrenees) (1949-1951), rector of the Russian Church in Tehran (1951-1961), member of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem (1961). From 1961 to 1984 priest of the Gethsemane St. Mary Magdalene Convent in Jerusalem.” (Marina Tsvetaeva Foundation).
Archimandrite Seraphim "was the confessor of the Bethany children and lived in Bethany for many years, and served on Sundays in Gethsemane" (Chernova O. Decree Op.).
Jerusalem. At the gates of the Alexander Compound (Threshold of the Judgment Gate).
First row: General Khripunov, Fr. archim. Seraphim (Sedov), General's wife Nina Georgievna.
Second row: Olga Amphovna Wakhbe, Prince Vladimir Galitsyn from Paris, Timofey Stepanovich Denke (died in a plane crash while flying to the Synod), Fr. Gerasim
A photo: www.st-nikolas.orthodoxy.ru
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