Aleksandr Mixaylovich Nedoshivin (March 14, 1868 in Kazan – March, 1943, Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice) was 27 years a tax specialist at the Ministry of Finance in

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, later a lawyer for 10 years. In 1920 he left the country and became a priest in 1927. In 1928 he became priest of the Russian Orthodox Church in Leipzig. In 1910 he learned

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and was one of the founders of the Esperanto Society at

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. In Saint Petersburg he founded the International Esperanto Chamber of Commerce (Internacian Esperantan Komercan Ĉambron) which received subsidy. His work for Esperanto was supported by his wife (died 1926) and his daughter.''Enciklopedio de Esperanto''
1933.

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Russian Esperantists 1868 births 1943 deaths Russian Eastern Orthodox priests 20th-century Eastern Orthodox priests {{Esperanto-stub