Kuzmin-Karavaev V.D. (1859-1927), public figure

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KUZMIN-KARAVAEV Vladimir Dmitrievich (1859-1927) was a public and political figure, lawyer, publicist, Major General (1901). On graduating from the Corps of Pages (1878) he served in Guards' Mounted-Artillery Brigade. In 1880-83, he studied at Alexandrovskaya Military Juridical Academy. In 1884-1905 (with interruptions) he was a Lecturer in the department of Military Criminal Law at the Academy (appointed professor in 1890, professor emeritus in 1905) In 1908-17, he was Privat-docent of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University; in 1909-13, Kuzmin-Karavaev was professor of criminal law at the Higher Courses for Women of N.P. Raev in St. Petersburg. In the 1890s and the early 1900s, he was a member of the Juridical Society, serving as an assistant to the Head of the Society, and Head of the Administrative Department. Kuzmin-Karavaev was a member of the Free Economic Society. From 1898, he was a member of the International Union of Criminalists. Kuzmin-Karavaev was a deputy of St. Petersburg Provincial Assembly and of St. Petersburg City Duma (1903-17, with some interruptions). From the end of the 1890s, he was a publicist (writing articles on questions of domestic policy, country councils, public education etc.), in 1905-18, he was in charge of the unit of Social and Political Chronicles in the magazine Messenger of Europe, in 1911-16, he was an editor of the unit on Criminal Law and one of the authors of the New Encyclopedia by Brockhaus and Efron. In 1908-09, Kuzmin-Karavaev was in charge of the Administration of the Mutual Aid Fund of Literary Men and Scientists, and a member of the Committee of the Literary Fund. He was a member of the Council of the Society of Mutual Credit of Printing Business in St. Petersburg. From 1903, he was a member of the Union of Members of Local Country Councils and Constitutionalists. In November 1904, Kuzmin-Karavaev was a participant of the Conference of Members of Country Councils. From the end of 1905, he was an attorney; in 1908-11, a member of the Council of Attorneys. He was one of the founders and Head of the Party of Democratic Reforms (1905-07). Kuzmin-Karavaev was the deputy of the First and Second State Dumas. He was one of the founders of the All-Russian League Against Death Punishment (forbidden by the Government in 1909). In 1910s, he lived at 3 Razyezzhaya Street. In the years of the World War I of 1914-18, Kuzmin-Karavaev was a member of the Main City Committee and of Petrograd City Committee of the All-Russian union of cities, in charge of the Inspection Commission of the All-Russian Union Of Country Councils. Kuzmin-Karavaev was also a member of the Central Military Industrial Committee. After the February Revolution of 1917, he was a senator of the First Department of the Senate. After October 1917, Kuzmin-Karavaev participated in the fight against the Bolshevik regime, and in May - August 1919, he was a member of the Political Conference of the Commander-In-Chief of the North-Western Front N.N. Yudenich, in charge of the army provision. In 1920 Kuzmin-Karavaev emigrated. He served as Dean of the Russian Department in the Faculty of Law in Sorbonne (Paris), member of the Russian academic group in Paris, member of the Emigre Committee, member of the Union of Russian Writers and Journalists, member of the Union of Russian Lawyers in France.

Reference: Военно-юридическая академия, 1866-1891: Крат. ист. очерк. СПб., 1891.

N. B. Khailova. Brockhaus Friedrich Arnold
Efron Ilya Abramovich
Kuzmin-Karavaev Vladimir Dmitrievich
Raev Nikolay Pavlovich
Yudenich Nikolay Nikolaevich
Razyezzhaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 3
Военно-юридическая академия, 1866-1891: Крат. ист. очерк. СПб., 1891 Page Corps
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Alexander Military Law Academy
State University, St. Petersburg
Law Society
City Duma
Vestnik Evropy (The Herald of Europe), 1866-1918
State Duma
February Revolution of 1917
Senate