Balk A.P., the city guard 1916-17

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BALK Alexander Pavlovich (1866-1957), statesman, Major General (1912). He graduated from the First Cadet Corps (he was a classmate of the future last minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian empire A. D. Protopopov) and from Pavlovskoe Military College (1886). He entered military service in 1886. In 1903-16, he was an assistant to the Chief Policeman of Warsaw, from November 1916, he was the Governor of Petrograd. During the days of February revolution of 1917 he unsuccessfully tried to organize resistance against revolutionary forces, was arrested, and put in the guardhouse of the former staff of the Department Gendarme Corps (40 Furstadtskaya Street), later he was moved to Peter and Paul Fortress. In June 1917, he was set free by order of the Provisional government. In 1918 he emigrated and died in Brazil. He wrote a book entitled Гибель царского Петрограда: Февр. революция глазами градоначальника А. П. Балка // Русское прошлое: Ист.-док. альм. Л., 1991. № 1. С. 7-72.

Reference: Длуголенский Я. Н. Военно-гражданская и полицейская власть Санкт-Петербурга, 1703-1917. СПб., 2001. С. 99-103.

D. N. Shilov. Balk Alexander Pavlovich
Protopopov Alexander Dmitrievich
Furshtatskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 40
Петропавловская крепость
Гибель царского Петрограда: Февр. революция глазами градоначальника А. П. Балка // Русское прошлое: Ист.-док. альм., 1991
Длуголенский Я. Н. Военно-гражданская власть Санкт-Петербурга, 1703-1917. СПб., 2001 February Revolution of 1917
St. Peter and Paul fortress
St. Peter and Paul fortress
Provisional Government of 1917