Mikhail Alexandrovich Stachowitsch

Mikhail Stachowitsch in the last years of his life

Michail Alexandrowitsch Stachowitsch ( Russian Михаил Александрович Стахович , scientific transliteration Michail Aleksandrovič Stachovič ; * 1861 in Palna-Michailowka , Orjol governorate ; † 1923 in Aix-en-Provence was a Russian politician). In 1917 he was the Russian Governor General of Finland for a few months .

Russian politics

Michail Stachowitsch studied law . From 1892 to 1895 he worked as a district and governorate marshal. He became known politically throughout Russia in 1900 through a daring speech at the mission preachers' conference. In it he advocated freedom of conscience in Russia.

After the Russian Revolution of 1905 he was elected to the State Duma and in 1907 to the second Duma. During the third Duma he was a member of the State Council.

Governor General of Finland

The Provisional Government of Russia appointed him Governor General of Finland on March 20, 1917 . Stachowitsch was not the government's first choice, but all other potential candidates had previously turned down the office. He officially took office on March 31.

On September 17, 1917, Stachowitsch resigned as governor general. His successor was the liberal politician Nikolai Nekrasov . Stachowitsch was appointed envoy to Spain. After the October Revolution and the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks , he did not return to Russia, but stayed first in Spain and later in France. He died in Aix-en-Provence in 1923 .

Life

• Mikhail Alexandrovich Stachowitsch . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 26 : Slöke – Stockholm . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1917, Sp. 874 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).