LAST MEMBER OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY: THE BIOGRAPHY OF S.N. NIKOLAEV (1880-1976)
The purpose of the article is to study the activities of the famous politician, Chuvash socialist revolutionary S.N. Nikolayev (1880-1976) during the first emigration (1920-1930). This period of the biography of Nikolayev virtually unexplored in historical scholarship. The key methodological principle in the work is the principle of historicism-the analysis of Life and work of S. N. Nikolayev in evolution taking into account social and political context. The biographical method is also used as a special genre structure, asserting the idea of the need to perceive the history of science and culture through the sphere of an individual. Nikolayev's participation in organizational structures of the SR emigration, his speech at party forums, in particular, at theoretical conference of the Prague group of socialists-revolutionaries of 1931. The role of Nikolayev as a memoirist and publicist is noted. Stresses the need for further study of works by S.N. Nikolayev, especially his memories. It is concluded that the legacy of socialist revolutionaries-emigrants, Including S.N. Nikolayev, should be in demand by modern domestic humanitarian science not only in historical terms, but also in the aspect of finding further ways of development of Russia.