Vladimir Cherkassky Explained

Birth Date:	13 April 1821
Birth Place:	Tula Province, Russian Empire
Death Place:	San Stefano, Ottoman Empire
Office:	Moscow's Gorodskoy Golova (Московский городской голова)^[1]
Term Start:	1869
Term End:	1871

Vladimir Alexandrovich Cherkassky (Russian: Владимир Александрович Черкасский; 13 April 1821 – 3 March 1878) was a slavophil Russian politician^[2] and first head of the provisional Russian Administration in Bulgaria.

Biography

Born into a princely family, Cherkassky studied law at Moscow State University. He supported the Emancipation reform of 1861 which abolished serfdom in Russia.

External links

• • Vladimir Cherkassky in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary at wikisource.org

Notes and References

1. Web site: ЧЕРКАССКИЙ • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия.
2. Book: Peter K. Christoff. K.S. Aksakov, A Study in Ideas, Vol. III: An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism. 14 July 2014. Princeton University Press. 978-1-4008-5350-2. 322.