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.
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.