Boris Vasilchikov
Prince Boris Aleksandrovich Vasilchikov (Russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Васи́льчиков; 1863, Vybiti, Novgorod Governorate – 1931, Menton) — Russian politician.
Biography
[edit]Graduate of the Imperial School of Law; entered the Ministry of Justice, 1881.
Elected Marshal of Nobility of Staraia Russa Uezd, 1884, of Novgorod Guberniya (1890).
Governor of Pskov (1900–1903); Head of the Red Cross for the Northeastern District during the Russo-Japanese War. Chairman of the Russian Red Cross Society.
Member of the State Council (1906). Head of the Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture in the Pyotr Stolypin cabinet (July 1906 – May 1908).
Emigrated to France in 1920 from the USSR after the 1917 revolution.
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Categories:
- 1863 births
- 1931 deaths
- People from Novgorod Oblast
- People from Starorussky Uyezd
- Nobility from the Russian Empire
- Government ministers of Russia
- Members of the State Council (Russian Empire)
- Marshals of nobility
- Memoirists from the Russian Empire
- Imperial School of Jurisprudence alumni
- Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia)
- Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class
- Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress
- Immigrants to France