Ivan Shcheglovitov Explained

Ivan Shcheglovitov
Native Name Lang:ru
Birth Place:Vaulets, Starodubsky Uyezd, Russian Empire
Death Place:Moscow, Soviet Union
Office:Chairman of the State Council
Term Start:1 Jannuary 1917
Term End:1 March 1917
Predecessor:Anatoly Kulomzin
Successor:Position abolished
Office1:Minister of Justice
Predecessor1:Mikhail Akimov
Successor1:Aleksandr Khvostov
Term Start1:24 April 1906
Term End1:6 July 1915
Party:Russian Assembly

Ivan Grigoryevich Shcheglovitov (ru|Иван Григорьевич Щегловитов; – 5 September 1918) was a right-wing politician who served as the Russian minister of Justice and the last chairman of the State Council of the Russian Empire.

Life

Graduate of the Imperial School of Law. Held various posts in the Senate and the Ministry of Justice between 1890 and 1905; Assistant Minister of Justice (1906), Minister of Justice (1906-1915), Member of the State Council (1907), and Chairman of the State Council (January 1917). Shcheglovitov was one of the main instigators of a notorious Blood libel case against Menachem Beilis in 1913.[1]

After the February Revolution he was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in the Peter and Paul Fortress; later transferred to Moscow and executed by the Bolsheviks during the period of Red Terror.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Современники о Григории Распутине. Распутин ненавидел Щегловитова и нападал на него.