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Mikhail Nikolayevich, Count Muravyov
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Mikhail Nikolayevich, Count Muravyov

Russian diplomat and statesman [1845-1900]
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(Count), Muravyov also spelled:
Muraviëv, or Muraviev
Born:
April 19 [April 7, old style], 1845, Grodno, Russia
Died:
June 21 [June 8, old style], 1900, St. Petersburg (aged 55)

Mikhail Nikolayevich, Count Muravyov (born April 19 [April 7, old style], 1845, Grodno, Russia—died June 21 [June 8, old style], 1900, St. Petersburg) was a Russian diplomat and statesman who at the end of the 19th century directed Russia’s activities in the Far East and played a major role in developments leading to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05). Muravyov was the grandson of Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov, known as the “hangman of Wilno” for his brutal suppression of the Polish uprising of 1863 in the Lithuanian provinces, and the son of the governor of Grodno. Mikhail Nikolayevich entered the ...(100 of 281 words)

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