Ivan Grigoryevich Shcheglovitov (russian: Иван Григорьевич Щегловитов; – 5 September 1918) was a right-wing politician who served as the Russian minister of Justice and the last chairman of the

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of the Russian Empire.

Life

Graduate of the Imperial School of Law. Held various posts in the Senate and the Ministry of Justice between 1890 and 1905; Assistant Minister of Justice (1906), Minister of Justice (1906-1915), Member of the State Council (1907), and Chairman of the State Council (January 1917). Shcheglovitov was one of the main instigators of a notorious

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case against Menachem Beilis in 1913. After the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

he was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in the

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; later transferred to Moscow and executed by the Bolsheviks during the period of

Red Terror The Red Terror (russian: Красный террор, krasnyj terror) in Soviet Russia was a campaign of political repression and executions carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. It started in lat ...

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* V.I. Gurko
Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shcheglovitov, Ivan 1861 births 1918 deaths Imperial School of Jurisprudence alumni Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Members of the Russian Assembly People from Pochepsky District People from Starodubsky Uyezd Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia Justice ministers of Russia Executed Russian people