Nikolai Dmitrievich Talberg, 1886-1967
Nikolai Dmitrievich Talberg was born in Korostyshev, Russia, on July 10, 1886. Both his father and grandfather were affiliated with Kiev University. His family, of Swedish origin, originally moved to Russia from Finland during the reign of Catherine the Great. Talberg studied at the Imperatorskoe uchilishche pravovedeniia, and graduated with a gold medal in 1907. The next ten years he served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
After the Russian revolution, Talberg moved to the Caucasus, but returned to Petersburg the same year, in 1917, joining a secret monarchist organization, headed by N. E. Markov. In 1919, Talberg left Russia, arriving in Berlin in 1920, where he continued to be affiliated and actively involved in Markov’s monarchist organization, the Vysshii monarkhicheskii sovet.
With his move to Belgrade, Talberg became more involved with the life of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, eventually moving to the United States, where he accepted a teaching position at Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, N.Y. Talberg authored several history textbooks, still in use today at theological seminaries. He also published widely on various topics relating to Russian secular and church history.
Nikolai Dmitrievich Talberg died on May 29, 1967, in Jordanville, N.Y.
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