- Dmitry Sipyagin
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Dmitry Sergeyevich Sipyagin (Дмитрий Сергеевич Сипягин) (March 20, 1853 – April 15, (April 2. O.S.), 1902), a Russian statesman.
Born in Kiev, Sipyagin graduated from the Judicial Department of St Petersburg University in 1876. Served in the MVD as Vice-Governor of Kharkov (1886-1888), Governor of Courland (1888-1891) and Governor of Moscow (1891-1893). Deputy of the Minister of State Property (1893); Deputy of the Minister of Interior (1894); Executive Director on the petitions of the Imperial Chancellery (1895-1899); Director of the Ministry of Interior (1899); Minister of Interior (1900).
He was assassinated in the Mariinsky Palace by Socialist-Revolutionary Stepan Balmashov.
Political offices Preceded by
Ivan GoremykinMinister of Interior
1900–1902Succeeded by
Vyacheslav von PlehveCategories:- 1853 births
- 1902 deaths
- Imperial Russian politicians
- Members of the State Council of the Russian Empire
- Assassinated Russian politicians
- People from Kiev
- People murdered in Russia
- Russian monarchists
- Russian politician stubs
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