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Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov

1866 – 1951

Russian politician, born 1866

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Lived 1866 – 1951 (aged 85). Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov was a Russian politician.

Prince Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov (; 1866, Tsarskoye Selo – 1951. Vladimir) was Russian liberal politician.

Life Graduate of Moscow University. Well-known zemstvo man and for many years chairman of Sudzha Zemstvo Board. For his radical pronouncements at the sessions of Sudzha Uezd Committee to Study the Needs of Agricultural Industry, he was removed from his post by Plehve but reinstated under Sviatopolk-Mirsky.

He was one of the founders of the Union of Liberation and of the periodical publication Osvobozhdenie. He participated in zemstvo congresses, 1904–1905. One of the founders of the Constitutional Democratic Party, member and vice-chairman of the First State Duma, 1906. He was convicted by the court and imprisoned for three months for signing the Vyborg Appeal.

In 1909 he was reelected chairman of Sudzhensky Uyezd Zemstvo Board. He married and returned home, where he lived with his family (children Mikhail and Natalia) until the revolution.

After the 1917 revolution the family moved to Kaukas, 1919 to Crimea, in 1920 they emigrated from Russia to Istanbul; from 1922 they lived in Prague, where Pyotr Dmitriyevich between 1927 and 1941 led Russian emigre organizations in Czechoslovakia. His twin brother Pavel Dolgorukov was executed by Bolsheviks in 1927.

On 9 June 1945, he was in Prague arrested by SMERSH, convicted for anti-Soviet activities and taken to the Soviet Union. He spent last years of his life in Soviet prisons. He died in 1951. The date and place is unclear, maybe Butyrska prison.

He was the Great Uncle of Norwegian singer Georg Kajanus of pop band Sailor.

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Birth century
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Education
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Positions held
Member of the State Duma of the Russian Empire
Also known as
Prince Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov, Pyotr Dolgorukov, Petr Dolgorukov

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Who was Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov?

Russian politician, born 1866 (1866–1951)

When was Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov born?

Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov was born on 9 May 1866 in Pushkin.

When did Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov die?

Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov died on 10 November 1951 in Vladimir Central Prison.

What was Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov's occupation?

Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov was a politician.

What nationality was Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov?

Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov was Russian.

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· Wikipedia: Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov

· Wikidata: Q4164730

· DBpedia: Pyotr Dolgorukov (politician)

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