Boris Vasilchikov

Boris Vasilchikov
Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Васи́льчиков
Vasilchikov in 1915
Governor of Pskov
In office
June 7, 1900 – June 13, 1903
Preceded byKonstantin Ivanovich Pashchenko
Succeeded byAleksandr Adlerberg
Member of the State Council
In office
April 2, 1906 – May 1, 1917

Prince Boris Aleksandrovich Vasilchikov (Russian: Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Васи́льчиков; 1863, Vybiti, Novgorod Governorate – 1931, Menton) — Russian politician.

Biography

Graduated from the Imperial School of Law; entered the Ministry of Justice, 1881.

Elected Marshal of Nobility of Staraia Russa Uezd, 1884, of Novgorod Guberniya (1890).

Governor of Pskov (1900–1903); Head of the Red Cross for the Northeastern District during the Russo-Japanese War. Chairman of the Russian Red Cross Society.

Member of the State Council (1906). Head of the Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture in the Pyotr Stolypin cabinet (July 1906 – May 1908).

Emigrated to France in 1920 from the USSR after the 1917 Revolution.

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