Vladimir Viktorovich Volkonsky

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Vladimir Viktorovich Volkonsky (1910)

Vladimir Viktorovich Volkonsky ( Russian Владимир Викторович Волконский ; born June 25, 1866 , † August 6, 1914 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian prince , landowner and politician . He was a member of the 3rd State Duma .

Life

From 1885 he completed his first military training in the Alexander II Cadet Corps and at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School. He then moved to the rank of lieutenant in the mounted artillery corps . With the same rank he quit his military service and retired to one of his estates, now devoting himself more to agriculture and becoming involved on the socio-political level. From 1891 he was appointed honorary magistrate and honorary judge of the Starokonstantinov judicial district and in 1902 he was appointed aristocratic marshal of the same district, which he held until 1907. He was a member of many non-profit and educational societies and institutions and was awarded several merit medals and 3rd place for his services . Decorated class of the Russian Order of Saint Anne . From 1907 he was elected a member of the Third State Duma for the Volyn Province , chaired by his relative Vladimir Mikhailovich Volkonsky (1868-1953) and his cousin Nikolai Sergeevich Volkonsky (1848-1910) and his brother Sergei Sergeevich Volkonsky (1856-1916) Was a member. In the State Duma he was a member of the Commission on the Inviolability of the Individual and the Defense Council. He died in 1914 and found his final resting place in the Nicholas Cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Convent in Saint Petersburg.

Origin and family

Knes WW Wolkonski came from the old princely family of the Wolkonskis , his father was Knes Viktor Wassiljewitsch Wolkonski (1823-1884), who was married to Countess Maria Alexandrovna Essen-Stenbock-Fermor (* 1839 in Haspal ( Estonia ); † 1905 in Berlin ) was. In her second marriage, Maria Alexandrovna married the Swedish colonel Adam Edgar Graf Stenbock († 1893). Vladimir's possessions included estates and lands in Volyn Oblast and around Kusmyn . In addition, he owned lands near Gritsyki, Kultschiny and Woliza-Dubischskaja. He married Olga Konstantinovna Michailowsky (* around 1867, † July 19, 1947), they had no descendants.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tomb of Vladimir Viktorovich Volkonsky [1]
  2. ↑ Stenbock-Fermor, In: Transehe-Roseneck, Astaf from : Genealogisches Handbuch der Livländischen Ritterschaft , Vol .: 2, Görlitz, [approx. 1935] [2] p. 689
personal data
SURNAME Volkonsky, Vladimir Viktorovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Волконский, Владимир Викторович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician and member of the Duma
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1866
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1914
Place of death St. Petersburg