Alexander Fyodorovich Trepov

Alexander Trepov

Alexander Fedorovich Trepov ( Russian Александр Фёдорович Трепов ; born September 18 ^{. Jul} / 30 September 1868 ^greg. In Kiev ; † 10. November 1928 in Nice ) was a Russian statesman, Minister of Transport and Minister in the Imperial Russia.

biography

Prisoners of war building the Murman Railway, 1916

He was the eldest son of Fyodor Trepow the Elder (1809-1889), who was involved in the suppression of the November uprising in Poland in 1830/1831. His three brothers Fyodor, Dmitri and Vladimir were all senior officials during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II. Alexander trained in the page corps , then worked in the Interior Ministry, was elected aristocratic marshal of Ujesd Perejaslav and became deputy state secretary in 1899. As a member of a special commission, he participated in the drafting of a plan for a State Duma and the October Manifesto . In 1906 he became a senator in the governing senate . In 1914 he was appointed to the State Council , on October 17th ^July. / October 30, 1915 ^greg. appointment as Minister of Transport, on November 10th ^jul. / November 23, 1916 ^greg. as Prime Minister as the successor to Boris Stürmer . As a connection between the ice-free port of Murmansk and the Eastern Front , Trepow had the Murman Railway built by prisoners of war in 1916/1917 . In the following months he tried unsuccessfully to curb Rasputin's influence on the Tsar. Shortly after the murder of Rasputin, he was charged with questioning Felix Yusupov , one of Rasputin's murderers, about the circumstances of the night of the murder.

After the October Revolution , Trepov was arrested and, after his release from prison, became a leader of the whites . From autumn 1918 to 1919 he headed the special committee for Russia in Helsinki, Finland . He then emigrated to France and supported the White Army from there . At the end of May 1921 he took part in the Russian monarchist congress in Bad Reichenhall , as well as in a Russian emigrant congress in April 1926 with participants from 26 countries in the Hotel Majestic in Paris , which was organized at the instigation of Peter Struve .

Grave of Alexander Trepow on the Cimetière Russe in Nice

He died on November 10, 1928 in Nice and was buried in the Russian Orthodox cemetery there.

In 1916 he was named commander of the Legion of Honor.

Web links

Commons : Category: Alexander Trepov  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography on hrono.ru (Russian)
• Les partis monarchistes russes émigrés à Paris - 1919–1939 (French)

predecessor	Office	successor
Boris Vladimirovich striker	Prime Minister of the Russian Empire November 23, 1916 to January 20, 1917	Nikolai Dmitrievich Golitsyn