Vladimir Mitrofanowitsch Purishkewitsch

Vladimir Purishkevich

Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich (born August 12, 1870 in Kishinev , † January 11, according to other sources February 1, 1920 in Novorossiysk ) was a Russian politician and spokesman for the right-wing members of the Duma , the parliament in imperial Russia . He was considered an anti-Semite , a monarchist and right-wing radical and was a member of the " League of the Russian People " and leader of the " Black Hundred ".

Life

Purishkevich came from an old Russian aristocratic family from the Kursk region, who acquired new land in Bessarabia after the conquest by Russian troops and moved there. He attended a high school in Kishinev, from which he graduated with a gold medal (equivalent to the award: Magna cum laude ) and then studied history and linguistics at the “New Russian” University of Odessa . After successfully completing his studies, he worked as clerk to the aristocratic marshal of the Akkerman district in Bessarabia and was a member of the local aristocratic assembly from 1905 to 1911.

As early as 1897, as chairman of the self-governing district (Russian term: Zemstvo ) , Purishkevich acquired the reputation of a brilliant speaker who, with his sharp-tongued polemics, was able to mobilize large crowds. This ability led to the fact that the only thirty-year- old aroused the interest of the Ministry of the Interior in St. Petersburg , which added him to its administrative apparatus in 1901. Since 1900 he lived almost continuously in what was then the capital of the tsarist empire and made a rapid career. As early as 1904 he was appointed "Special Officials" at the Interior Minister von Plehwe and in addition to this post in 1905 as "Special Officials " in the press department of the Ministry of the Interior, although it is not yet clear what exactly Purishkewitsch's area of ​​activity was. He resigned in August 1907 after his election to the Russian State Duma as a member of the Bessarabia Governorate.

In parliament he represented extreme right-wing positions, gave several anti-Semitic speeches and warned of a "dark power" that was destroying the monarchy, by which Rasputin was meant. Purishkevich murdered Rasputin together with Prince Felix Yusupov and other co-conspirators such as Grand Duke Dmitri (who later became Coco Chanel's lover ), the officer Sukhotin and the doctor Lasovert on December 17, 1916 according to the old Russian calendar and on December 30, 1916 according to the Gregorian calendar . He died of typhus in 1920.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wladimir Mitrofanowitsch Purischkewitsch in the catalog of the German National Library