Konstantin Melnikov [SEP] place of death
teacher until the end of his life.
Biography.
Biography Childhood.
Konstantin Melnikov was born and died in Moscow. He was the fourth child of the family. His father, Stepan Illarionovich Melnikov, originally from Nizhny Novgorod region, was a road maintenance foreman, employed by the Moscow Agricultural Academy. Mother, Yelena Grigorievna (née Repkina), came from the peasants of Zvenigorod district. The whole family occupied a single room of a state-managed working class barrack in Hay Lodge (Соломенная Сторожка), then
"Report on the Current Situation in Raskol" (1854) Melnikov argued that the low level of morality among the Orthodox church officials was to blame. After the death of Tsar Nikolai I he was one of the first to demand the maintenance of religious tolerance in Russia ("The Note on Russian Raskol", a report for Grand Duke Konstantin, 1857; "Letters On Raskol", 1862). In 1862 he declared that the 200 years of Old Believers' persecution was unnecessary and wrong. Melnikov was a liberal