Tertiy Filippov (1826–1899) was a Russian statesman, an essay writer, an ethnographer, an Actual Privy Councillor, and an Honorary Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
From 1850 to 1856, he was a literature teacher at the 1st Moscow Gymnasium. From 1857 to 1864, he was a special envoy of the Chief Procurator of the Synod. From 1864, he worked at the State Audit Office as an assistant director (1864–1870) and the director (1870–1878) of the Provisional Audit Commission. In 1874, he was appointed a member of the Taxation Commission under the Ministry of Finance. He was a member of the Statistical Council under the Ministry of Internal Affairs representing the State Audit Office (1876). Tertiy Filippov was a Deputy State Auditor (1878–1889), a Senator (from 1883), a State Controller (1889–1899), and a member of the Finance Committee (from 1889). Under the T. Filippov’s leadership, the elaboration of new State Control Agencies was completed (1892).
From the 1850s onward, T. Filippov was engaged in literary activities. Together with A. Ostrovsky, A. Pisemsky, and others, he was a member of the “young editorial board” of the Moskvityanin journal and was the Editor of the Russkaya Beseda journal (1856–1857, in cooperation with A. Koshelev).
He founded a choir of the house church of the State Control, which included officials from the agency. The repertoire consisted of church, folk, and contemporary songs.
T. Filippov was a member of the Russian Geographical Society (since 1872, in the Ethnography Section), the initiator and the first Chairman (since 1884) of the Society’s Song Commission. He was a founding member and a vice-chairman of the Orthodox Palestinian Society; in 1883, Patriarch Nicodemus of Jerusalem granted him the title of epitrop (authorized representative) of the Holy Sepulchre and representative of the patriarchal throne. T. Filippov was the founding member of the Russian Literary Society (1886).
The main image provides a portrait of T. Filippov, collections of folk songs published with his involvement, and the RGO logo; a commemorative stamp features images symbolically reflecting geographical projects.
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| Letter “B” |
Chalk surfaced |
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105 × 148 mm |
4.0 thousand postcards |