Ivan Logginowitsch Goremykin

Ivan Goremykin

Ivan Goremykin ( Russian Иван Логгинович Горемыкин * October 27 ^{. Jul} / November 8, 1839 ^greg. In Novgorod , † December 11 ^{. Jul} / December 24, 1917 ^{. Greg} in Sochi ) was a Russian statesman, Minister of the Interior from 1895 to 1899 and two-time Prime Minister 1906 and 1914 to 1916.

Life

Goremykin was born into a noble family with lands in the Novgorod Governorate . In 1860 he graduated from the Imperial Law School in Saint Petersburg and became an employee of the Senate. He later became commissioner for peasant affairs in Congress Poland . In 1866 he became vice governor in Płock and in 1869 in Kielce . From 1873 he worked in the Tsarist Ministry of the Interior, where he was a member of the Commission for Peasant Affairs in Poland until 1882. From 1882 he was a member of the 1st department of the Senate and from 1884 chief procurator of the 2nd department. In 1891 he became Deputy Minister of Justice and in 1894 Senator.

Ivan Goremykin and Nikolai Gerard
Study by Ilya Repin

From 1895 to 1899 he was Minister of the Interior and from 1899 a member of the State Council (until 1917). Before convening the 1st State Duma in April 1906, he was appointed Prime Minister to succeed Sergei Witte . In this role he spoke out against a draft law on ministerial responsibility towards the Duma and against radical agrarian reform. After the dissolution of the 1st Duma in July 1906, he was forced to resign and replaced by Pyotr Stolypin .

In February 1914 he was reappointed Prime Minister because of his proven loyalty to Tsar Nicholas II . He was the only minister who approved the assumption of supreme command by Nicholas II in September 1915. He was dismissed in February 1916 after demanding the dissolution of the 4th Duma and losing the trust of Empress Alexandra and Rasputin . Boris Stürmer was his successor . He was arrested after the February Revolution of 1917 and questioned in May before the Extraordinary Commission of Inquiry of the Provisional Government . Kerensky eventually agreed to be released on the condition that he retire to his villa in Sochi. In December 1917 he was murdered there in a robbery together with his wife, their daughter and their son-in-law.

Awards

• Knight of the Order of St. Andrew (1915)

Web links

Commons : Ivan Goremykin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography on hrono.ru (Russian)

predecessor	Office	successor
Ivan Nikolayevich Durnowo	Russian Minister of the Interior 1895–1899	Dmitri Sergeyevich Sipyagin
Sergei Witte Vladimir Kokovtsov	Prime Minister of the Russian Empire May 5, 1906 to July 21, 1906 February 12, 1914 to February 2, 1916	Pyotr Stolypin Boris striker