Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Protopopov

Russian statesman
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Born:
December 30 [December 18, Old Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia
Died:
January 1, 1918 [December 19, 1917], Moscow (aged 51)

Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Protopopov (born December 30 [December 18, Old Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia—died January 1, 1918 [December 19, 1917], Moscow) was a Russian statesman who was imperial Russia’s last minister of the interior (1916–17). A landowner and industrialist, Protopopov was elected a delegate from Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) province to the third Duma (Russian legislature) in 1907 and joined the left wing of the conservative Octobrist Party. Elected again to the fourth Duma (1912), he became one of its deputy speakers, and, after the onset of World War I, he lent his support to the Progressive Bloc, a coalition of political ...(100 of 299 words)