Dmitry Shakhovskoy

Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Shakhovskoy (1861 — 1939, Moscow) was Russian liberal politician.

Life

Active participant in zemstvo congresses, 1904-1905; one of the organizers of the Union of Liberation.

One of the founders and permanent member of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party. Member and secretary of the Cadet group in the First State Duma.

In May-July 1917 he was Minister of Social Welfare in the Russian Provisional Government.

After the Bolshevik revolution he was active in Soviet cooperative institutions, 1930. He was arrested by the NKVD and executed in 1939.

References

• V.I. Gurko. Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.

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Name	Shakhovskoy, Dmitry
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Date of birth	1861
Place of birth	Moscow
Date of death	1939
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