Ivan_Shcheglovitov

Ivan Shcheglovitov

Ivan Shcheglovitov

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Ivan Grigoryevich Shcheglovitov (Russian: Иван Григорьевич Щегловитов; 25 February [O.S. 13 February] 1861 – 5 September 1918) was a right-wing politician who served as the Russian minister of Justice and the last chairman of the State Council of the Russian Empire.

Ivan Shcheglovitov.

Life

Graduate of the Imperial School of Law. Held various posts in the Senate and the Ministry of Justice between 1890 and 1905; Assistant Minister of Justice (1906), Minister of Justice (1906-1915), Member of the State Council (1907), and Chairman of the State Council (January 1917). Shcheglovitov was one of the main instigators of a notorious Blood libel case against Menachem Beilis in 1913.[1]

After the February Revolution he was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in the Peter and Paul Fortress; later transferred to Moscow and executed by the Bolsheviks during the period of Red Terror.


References

  1. "Современники о Григории Распутине. Распутин ненавидел Щегловитова и нападал на него".

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Preceded by Minister of Justice
24 April 1906 – 6 July 1915
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Anatoly Kulomzin
Chairman of the State Council
1 January – 1 March 1917
Succeeded by
position abolished

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