Nikolay Dobrokhotov (1879)

Nikolay Fedorovich Dobrokhotov (22 May 1879 – 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman and politician.

Early years Nikolay Dobrokhotov was born on 22 May 1879, in the village of Rozhdestveno, Borovsky Volost, Danilovsky District, Yaroslavl Governorate, in the family of a village priest; he never mentioned the latter fact in his biography. He graduated from the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary.

Revolutionary activity He began working as a teacher at the Spas–Kiprianovskaya School in the Vyatka Volost. He actively conducted anti–government propaganda among the peasants, which led to a denunciation and dismissal, after which in 1905, he was transferred to the Zaozersky School of the Uglich District. In 1906, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik) and, as a member of the party, was engaged in agitation and propaganda work in the countryside, distributing banned literature, for which he was fired in 1907. Due to his difficult financial situation, he sang in the church choir of the Spassky Monastery and lived in its dormitory; at the same time he continued his party work. He was arrested twice and spent several months in prison. In 1910–1913 he worked as a teacher in the Perm Governorate.

He was buried in a mass grave near the village of Selifontovo near Yaroslavl.

In 1958, he was rehabilitated. In his honor, in July 1980, a road in Yaroslavl was named.