Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Shakhovskoy (1861,

Tsarskoye Selo Tsarskoye Selo ( rus, Ца́рское Село́, p=ˈtsarskəɪ sʲɪˈlo, a=Ru_Tsarskoye_Selo.ogg, "Tsar's Village") was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the cen ...

– 1939,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

) was a Russian liberal politician.

Life

Active participant in

zemstvo A ''zemstvo'' ( rus, земство, p=ˈzʲɛmstvə, plural ''zemstva'' – rus, земства) was an institution of local government set up during the great emancipation reform of 1861 carried out in Imperial Russia by Emperor Alexander ...

congresses, 1904–1905; one of the organizers of the

Union of Liberation The Union of Liberation (russian: Союз Освобождения, ''Soyuz Osvobozhdeniya'') was a liberal political group founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia in January 1904 under the influence of Peter Berngardovich Struve, a former Marxist. I ...

. One of the founders of Beseda and permanent member of the Central Committee of the

Constitutional Democratic Party ) , newspaper = ''Rech'' , ideology = ConstitutionalismConstitutional monarchismLiberal democracyParliamentarism Political pluralismSocial liberalism , position = Centre to centre-left , international = , colours ...

. Member and secretary of the Cadet group in the First

State Duma (Russian Empire) The State Duma, also known as the Imperial Duma, was the lower house of the Governing Senate in the Russian Empire, while the upper house was the State Council. It held its meetings in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It convened four times ...

. In May–July 1917 he was Minister of Social Welfare in the

Russian Provisional Government The Russian Provisional Government ( rus, Временное правительство России, Vremennoye pravitel'stvo Rossii) was a provisional government of the Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately ...

. After the Bolshevik revolution he was active in Soviet cooperative institutions, 1930. He was arrested by the

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

and executed on 15 April 1939.

References

* V.I. Gurko
Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shakhovskoy, Dmitry 1861 births 1939 deaths People from Pushkin, Saint Petersburg People from Tsarskoselsky Uyezd Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government Members of the 1st State Duma of the Russian Empire Saint Petersburg State University alumni Russian people executed by the Soviet Union