Prince Boris Aleksandrovich Vasilchikov (russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Васи́льчиков; 1863, Vybiti,

Novgorod Governorate Novgorod Governorate (Pre-reformed rus, Новгоро́дская губе́рнія, r=Novgorodskaya guberniya, p=ˈnofɡərətskəjə ɡʊˈbʲernʲɪjə, t=Government of Novgorod), was an administrative division (a '' guberniya'') of the Ru ...

– 1931,

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) — Russian politician.

Biography

Graduate of the Imperial School of Law; entered the Ministry of Justice, 1881. Elected Marshal of Nobility of Staraia Russa Uezd, 1884, of Novgorod Guberniya (1890). Governor of Pskov (1900–1903); Head of the Red Cross for the Northeastern District during the

Russo-Japanese War The Russo-Japanese War ( ja, 日露戦争, Nichiro sensō, Japanese-Russian War; russian: Ру́сско-япóнская войнá, Rússko-yapónskaya voyná) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1 ...

. Chairman of the Russian Red Cross Society. Member of the State Council (1906). Head of the Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture in the Pyotr Stolypin cabinet (July 1906 – May 1908). Emigrated to France in 1920 from the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

after the 1917 revolution.

Sources

* V.I. Gurko
Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.
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