About Dmitry Shakhovskoy
Lived 1861 – 1939 (aged 77). Dmitry Shakhovskoy was a Russian politician.
Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Shakhovskoy (; 1861, Tsarskoye Selo – 1939, Moscow) was a Russian liberal politician.
Life Active participant in zemstvo congresses, 1904–1905; one of the organizers of the Union of Liberation.
One of the founders of Beseda and permanent member of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party. Member and secretary of the Cadet group in the First State Duma (Russian Empire).
In May–July 1917 he was Minister of Social Welfare in the Russian Provisional Government.
After the Bolshevik revolution he was active in Soviet cooperative institutions, 1930. He was arrested by the NKVD and executed on 15 April 1939.
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Who was Dmitry Shakhovskoy?
Russian politician (1861-1939)
When was Dmitry Shakhovskoy born?
Dmitry Shakhovskoy was born on 18 September 1861 in Pushkin.
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Dmitry Shakhovskoy died on 15 April 1939 in Kommunarka shooting ground.
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Dmitry Shakhovskoy was a politician.
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Dmitry Shakhovskoy was Russian.
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