About Aleksandr Stishinsky
Lived 1851 – 1921 (aged 70). Aleksandr Stishinsky was a Russian politician.
Aleksandr Semenovich Stishinsky (; June 18, 1851, Tiflis – December 29, 1920, Constantinople) was a Russian statesman and nationalist politician.
Biography Graduate of Moscow University (1872). Worked in the Department for General Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior; transferred to the Imperial Chancellery (1873); Assistant State Secretary (1882–1886), then again transferred to the Ministry of the Interior; Head of the Peasant Section (1893); Assistant Imperial Secretary (1896–1899). Assistant Minister of the Interior (1900–1904). Member of State Council (1904), belonged to its right-wing group.
Head of the Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture in the Goremykin cabinet (April — June 1906).
Chairman of the Committee to Fight German Domination [in Russia] (1916).
He was arrested during the February Revolution and imprisoned for 9 months in Peter and Paul Fortress. Released in December 1917, he fled to Poltava, then to Kuban. He died in Constantinople in 1920.
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Who was Aleksandr Stishinsky?
Russian politician (1851–1921)
When was Aleksandr Stishinsky born?
Aleksandr Stishinsky was born on 18 June 1851 in Tbilisi.
When did Aleksandr Stishinsky die?
Aleksandr Stishinsky died on 29 December 1921 in Istanbul.
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Aleksandr Stishinsky was a politician.
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Aleksandr Stishinsky was Russian.
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