Vladimir Fyodorovich Dzhunkovsky (russian: Владимир Фёдорович Джунковский, ,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

- February 21, 1938,

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) was a Russian statesman. He held the posts of the Governor of

Gubernia A governorate, gubernia, province, or government ( rus, губе́рния, p=ɡʊˈbʲɛrnʲɪjə, also romanized ; uk, губернія, huberniia), was a major and principal administrative subdivision of the Russian Empire. After the empir ...

and the Governor-General of Moscow (August 6, 1908 - January 25, 1913).

Biography

Dzhunkovsky was a scion of nobles from

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Gubernia. An alumnus of the

Page Corps The Page Corps (russian: Пажеский корпус; french: Corps des Pages) was a military academy in Imperial Russia, which prepared sons of the nobility and of senior officers for military service. Similarly, the Imperial School of Jurisprud ...

, he started the military service in the

Imperial Guard (Russia) The Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard (russian: Лейб-гвардия ''Leyb-gvardiya'', from German ''Leib'' "body"; cf. Life Guards / Bodyguard) were military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Rus ...

Preobrazhensky Regiment The Preobrazhensky Life-Guards Regiment (russian: Преображенский лейб-гвардии полк, ''Preobrazhensky leyb-gvardii polk'') was a regiment of the Imperial Guard of the Imperial Russian Army from 1683 to 1917. The Pr ...

. Dzhunkovsky served as

adjutant Adjutant is a military appointment given to an officer who assists the commanding officer with unit administration, mostly the management of human resources in an army unit. The term is used in French-speaking armed forces as a non-commission ...

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (''Сергей Александрович''; 11 May 1857 – 17 February 1905) was the fifth son and seventh child of Emperor of All Russia, Emperor Alexander II of Russia. He was an influential figure ...

, the head of the Moscow City Board of the People's Soberness Trusteeship and the Chief of the

Special Corps of Gendarmes The Separate Corps of Gendarmes (russian: Отдельный корпус жандармов) was the uniformed security police of the Imperial Russian Army in the Russian Empire during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its main responsibilitie ...

State service

In 1908 he was appointed Governor-General of Moscow. Dzhunkovsky's governorship was marked by the bloom of cultural life in Moscow as several hubs have been opened. Dzhunkovsky was considered to be affiliated with

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. In 1913 he was appointed First Deputy Interior Minister, head of the

Okhrana The Department for Protecting the Public Security and Order (russian: Отделение по охранению общественной безопасности и порядка), usually called Guard Department ( rus, Охранное отд ...

and purified the police. When he discovered that

Roman Malinovsky Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...

, who headed the

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delegation in the

Fourth Duma 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 ...

, was also a highly paid police agent, he decided that the risk of a scandal was too risk, and ordered that Malinovsky had to quit and leave Russia. Two years later, in June 1915 he was responsible for a report on the drunk

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after the alleged incident in the

Yar restaurant The Yar (russian: Яр, from French ''"yard"'') was a restaurant and theatre in 19th Century Moscow frequented by Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. It was famous for its Sokolovsky gypsy choir. The Yar ran from 1826 to 1925 on the street ...

in March. Besides Dzhunkovsky failed to get his hands on a manuscript written by

Iliodor Sergei Michailovich Trufanov (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Труфа́нов; formerly Hieromonk Iliodor or Hieromonk Heliodorus, russian: Иеромонах Илиодор; October 19, 1880 – 28 January 1952) was a lapsed hi ...

.B. Pares (1939), "The Fall of the Russian Monarchy", p. 264. On August 19, 1915, he was discharged from most of his posts. Stepan Beletsky became his successor. In January 1916 Dzhunkovsky was sent to Siberia where he commanded the 15th Siberian Rifle Division on the

Western Front (Russian Empire) The Western Front (russian: Западный фронт) was an army group in the armed forces of the Russian Empire during the First World War. It was established in August 1915 when the Northwestern Front was split into the Northern Front and We ...

. In April, 1917 he gained the rank of

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; in September he commanded the 3rd Siberian Army Corps.

Life after revolution and death

Following the

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, Dzhunkovsky was released from all official duties. In 1918 he was arrested by Soviet security services, who accused him of aiding in the suppression of the

Revolution of 1905 The Russian Revolution of 1905,. also known as the First Russian Revolution,. occurred on 22 January 1905, and was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The mass unrest was directed again ...

. Dzhunkovsky was imprisoned in the

Butyrka Butyrskaya prison ( rus, Бутырская тюрьма, r= Butýrskaya tyurmá), usually known simply as Butyrka ( rus, Бутырка, p=bʊˈtɨrkə), is a prison in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow, Russia. In Imperial Russia i ...

and Taganka prisons. In 1918, he was called as a witness when Malinovsky was put on trial. In 1921 Dzhunkovsky was released as he was able to prove himself loyal to the new government. During the 1920s he served as security consultant of

OGPU The Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU; russian: Объединённое государственное политическое управление) was the intelligence and state security service and secret police of the Soviet Union f ...

. He is credited as one of the creators of the Soviet Union's passport system. In the fall of 1937, during the Stalinist repressions, he was arrested again. Dzhunkovsky was sentenced to death and executed on February 21, 1938. He was buried at the

Butovo firing range The Butovo Firing Range or Butovo Shooting Range (russian: Бутовский полигон) was an execution site of the Soviet secret police located near Drozhzhino in Leninsky District, Moscow Oblast from 1938 to 1953. Its use for mass exe ...

References

External links

Profile at Mos.ru
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