Rodzyanko M.V. (1859-1924), political and public figure

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RODZYANKO Mikhail Vladimirovich (1859-1924), public and political figure, author of memoirs. After graduating from the Page Corps in 1877, he served with the Mounted Regiment (transferred to the reserve in 1882, retired in 1885). From 1883, he was involved with nobility elections and in regional councils. In the late 1905 - early 1906, he was one of the founders of the League of October 17 (and a member of its Central Committee). In 1906-07, he was a member of the State Assembly. Rodzyanko was a Deputy with the Third and Fourth State Dumas. In the Third State Duma, he chaired the Land Committee, and was Vice-Chairman (elected Chairman in 1910) of the Octobrists' Faction Bureau. On 22 March 1911, he was elected Chairman of the Third State Duma, continuing on Chairman of the Fourth State Duma in 1912-17. During the First World War (1914-18) he was a member of the Special Conference for Defence and Chairman of the All-Russian Committee on Public Aid for Military Loans. Rodzyanko was one of the founders and leaders of the Progressive Bloc (1915). During the February Revolution of 1917, he presided over the Provisional Committee of the State Duma; among other activities, he took part in the forming of the Provisional Government and led abdication talks with Emperor Nicholas II and renunciation talks with Grand Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich. He was also one of the founders of the Liberal Republican Party and the Council of Public Figures, and blamed the Provisional Government for the army's disorganised state and the disruption of the economy and state. In October 1917, he tried to form an opposition to the Bolshevik coup, then took part in the White Movement in the south of Russia. He emigrated in 1920 to Yugoslavia. Rodzyanko wrote memoirs on events in Petrograd of 1916-17.

References: Марголис Ю. Д. Ценные признания М. В. Родзянко - мемуариста // Проблемы истории России XVIII - ХХ веков. Сыктывкар, 1997. С. 4-12.

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Rodzyanko Mikhail Vladimirovich
Марголис Ю. Д. Ценные признания М. В. Родзянко – мемуариста // Проблемы истории России XVIII – ХХ веков. Сыктывкар, 1997 Page Corps
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