![Vladimir Markov](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Vladimir_Markov.jpg)
Vladimir Ivanovitch Markoff ''(Markov)'' (26 July 1859
Hamina
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– August 1919
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 ...
) was a Finnish
Lieutenant General
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who was also the vice-chairman of the economic division (
Prime minister
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) of the
Senate of Finland from 1909 to 1913 and the
Finnish Minister Secretary of State
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in
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 ...
from 1913 to 1917. Appointing him was part of the
Russification of Finland
The policy of Russification of Finland ( fi, sortokaudet / sortovuodet, lit=times/years of oppression; russian: Русификация Финляндии, translit=Rusyfikatsiya Finlyandii) was a governmental policy of the Russian Empire aimed at ...
.
Biography
His parents were the
Viborg merchant Ivan Markov and Elisabet Markov. In 1887 he married Vera Vasiljevna Popova, daughter of the Saint Petersburg merchant Vasili Popov.
Markov graduated from
Hamina Cadet School
The Hamina Cadet School and Finland Cadet School were the common names for the Fredrikshamn cadet school during the period 1819–1901. The Cadet School was founded in 1780 by Georg Magnus Sprengtporten at Kuopio and transferred in 1781 to Ranta ...
in 1881. He served the
Imperial Russian Army
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in
Lithuania
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, the
Moscow Military District
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, and
Rostov
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While t ...
. From 1892 he served in the general headquarters in Saint Petersburg. From 1903 to 1909 Markov was head of the mobilisation department.
In early 1909 he was made chief of staff of 17th corps. In June 1906 he was appointed
military governor
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of
Transbaikal
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The steppe and ...
region and chief of
Transbaikal Cossack Host.
Markov was vice-chairman of the
Senate of Finland from 1909 to 1913, and the last
Finnish Minister Secretary of State
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
in
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 ...
from 1913 to 1917.
During 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 ...
, Markov was relieved of his duties and placed under house arrest in St. Petersburg.
[Osmo Jussila, Seppo Hentilä, Jukka Nevakivi. From Grand Duchy to modern state: a political history of Finland since 1809. P. 9]
/ref> He was imprisoned by the Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...
s after the October Revolution
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and died in prison in August 1919.
References
External links
Suomalaiset kenraalit ja amiraalit Venäjän sotavoimissa 1809–1917 - Markoff, Vladimir Ivanovitš
1859 births
1919 deaths
People from Hamina
People from Viipuri Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
Imperial Russian Army generals
Finnish senators
Grand Duchy of Finland
Russian military personnel
Finnish people of Russian descent
Russian people who died in prison custody
Prisoners who died in Soviet detention
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