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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
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V.I. GurkoFeatures And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.
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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