Aleksandr Ivanovich Konovalov () (17 September 1875,

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– 28 January 1949,

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; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery) was a Russian Kadet politician and entrepreneur. One of Russia's biggest textile manufacturers, he became a leader of the liberal, business-oriented Progressist Party and was a member of the Progressive Bloc in the Fourth Duma.

Biography

During

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he was vice president of

Alexander Guchkov Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov (; 14 October 1862 – 14 February 1936) was a Russian politician, Chairman of the Third Duma and Minister of War in the Russian Provisional Government. Early years Alexander Guchkov was born in Moscow. Unlike most ...

's Military-Industrial Committee, and after the

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he became Minister of Trade and Industry in the

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. He was an active member of the irregular freemasonic lodge, the Grand Orient of Russia’s Peoples. After the

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he emigrated to

, where he was a leader of leftist Russian émigrés; at the start of

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he moved to the

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References

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Encyclopædia Britannica

(Russian) * Michael T. Florinsky (ed.), ''McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union'' (1961), p. 284. {{DEFAULTSORT:Konovalov, Aleksandr 1875 births 1948 deaths Politicians from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Old Believers Party of Peaceful Renovation politicians Progressive Party (Russia) politicians Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government Members of the 4th State Duma of the Russian Empire Members of the State Duma of the Russian Empire from Kostroma Governorate Russian Constituent Assembly members Members of the Grand Orient of Russia's Peoples White Russian emigrants to France White Russian emigrants to the United States