Biography of vladimir chertkovic

In 2016 Friends House Moscow supported a project to preserve the archive of documents belonging to Vladimir Chertkov, who was Tolstoy’s literary executor and the organiser of the Russian pacifist movement in the early 20th Century.

The following article was published in The Friend on 2 February 2017, and is reproduced here with permission.

The photo shows Vladimir Chertkov with Leo Tolstoy in 1909 (Wikimedia Commons).

Daphne Sanders introduces an account, by academic Irina Gordeeva, of a project to conserve the history of the Tolstoyan peace movement

During 2016 the Quaker way once again converged with the life and work of Leo Tolstoy, when Friends House Moscow (FHM) provided a grant to assist Irina Gordeeva, of the Russian State University for the Humanities, to preserve in electronic form the deteriorating paper records of the Chertkov archives in the Lenin Library.

These archives are the lynchpin for contextualising