Vladimir Mikhailovich Volkonsky
Vladimir Michailowitsch Wolkonski ( Russian Владимир Михайлович Волконский ; born September 17, 1868 , † March 23, 1953 in Nice ) was a Russian prince , Russian interior minister , chairman of the III. and IV. State Duma and monarchist .
Life
His education he received in the form of home schooling , he went in 1891 to the Cavalry School in Tver , before moving to the rank of cornet in the imperial body- Dragoon - Regiment . In February 1892 he left active military service, settled in the Russian district of Shazk and became a member of the cavalry reserve. In September 1892 he was appointed to serve in the Ministry of the Interior and in December 1892 appointed governor of the Tambov governorate. Other appointments were 1,898 Gentleman , 1907 Chamberlain , 1909 Jägermeister and 1912 State Council . During his stay in Schazk he was elected deputy and spokesman for Schazk in 1894, appointed honorary judge from 1902–1904 and 1907–1916 , elected aristocratic captain of Schazk from 1897–1915, elected chairman of the board of trustees of the Schazk high school and ultimately in 1904 made an honorary citizen of Schazk appointed. In 1905 he joined the Federation of the Russian People , although he did not take an active part in its activities. In addition, he was elected in May 1906 as a delegate of the Tambow nobles and a member of the Permanent Council of the United Nobility (1906-1910). In 1907 he was elected for the Tambov governorate as a member of the III. State Duma , in which he sat in the moderate right-wing faction, later he moved to the Russian national faction. At the same time, his relatives Vladimir Viktorovich Volkonsky (1866-1914), Nikolai Sergeevich Volkonsky (1848-1910) and Sergei Sergeevich Volkonsky (1856-1916) were elected to the State Duma. On November 5, 1907 he was appointed chairman of the III. Elected to the State Duma, he led the meetings with a hard hand and insisted on quick voting results. His leadership style led to conflicts with the other parties , with the left articulating clearly. He occasionally interrupted the speeches of the Duma members and began to discipline them . In 1912 he was re-elected to the IV State Duma , but declared himself non-party and was re-elected as Duma chairman. On November 15, 1913, he resigned from his position and became a member of the Supreme Council for the Care of Injured and Fallen Soldiers and their family members. On July 14, 1915, he was appointed Minister of the Interior , and in December 1916, he resigned in protest against Protopopov's policies. In January 1917 he was elected captain of the Petrograd knighthood . After the October Revolution of 1917, Volkonsky joined the White Movement and worked on various committees for the organization of civil unity. He supported General Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, who was active in the White Army . When his attack on Petrograd failed, Wolkonski emigrated to Germany in 1921 , joined the monarchical congress in Bad Reichenhall and was one of the leaders of the Monarchist Union in Berlin. Between 1923/24 he moved to France, first living in Paris and then in southern France . In Menton in 1927 he became a member of the Council of the Brotherhood of St. Anastasia. From 1930 he was head of the Russian All-Military Union .
Awards
- 1907 Order of St. Vladimir , 3rd class
- 1906 Order of St. Vladimir, 4th grade
- 1905 Order of St. Anne , 2nd class
- 1901 Order of St. Stanislaus , 2nd class
Origin and family
Knes Wladimir Michailowitsch Volkonski came from the primeval Rurikid family of the aristocratic Volkonsky family . His was the privy councilor Michail Sergejewitsch Volkonsky (1832-1909), who was married to Elisabeth Volkonskaja (1838-1897) (from the Baltic line of the Volkonskis). His brothers were the music teacher Sergei Michailowitsch Wolkonski (1860-1937) and the converted to Catholic Alexander Michailowitsch Wolkonski , he is the grandson of the Decembrist Sergei Grigoryevich Wolkonsky (1788-1865). WM Volkonsky married Anna Nikolaevna Zvegintsova (1870–1950), daughter of the privy councilor Nikolai Alexandrovich Zvegintsov. They had no offspring. After his death, Volkonsky was buried in the Russian Orthodox cemetery in Nice.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Bad Reichenhall Congress. In: Johannes Baur, The Russian Colony in Munich 1900–1945: German-Russian Relations in the 20th Century, Volume 65 of publications by the Eastern European Institute Munich: Series History, Eastern European Institute Munich , ISSN 0078-687X, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag , 1998, ISBN 3447040238 , 9783447040235, p. 113 ff [1]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Volkonsky, Vladimir Mikhailovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Волконский, Владимир Михайлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian politician and Duma chairman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1868 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 23, 1953 |
| Place of death | Nice |