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.
Life[edit]
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[edit]
Sources[edit]
- V.I. Gurko. Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.
- "В Стародубе появится памятник Ивану Щегловитову" [A monument to Ivan Shcheglovitov will appear in Starodub] (in Russian). 13 April 2020. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
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- 1861 births
- 1918 deaths
- Antisemitism in Russia
- Imperial School of Jurisprudence alumni
- Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)
- Members of the Russian Assembly
- People from Pochepsky District
- People from Starodubsky Uyezd
- Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia
- Justice ministers of the Russian Empire
- Executed Russian people