Kadet orator who branded the gallows 'Stolypin's necktie'
What Mr. Purishkevich calls the Muravyov collar, his descendants will perhaps call the Stolypin necktie…
A Russian liberal politician who began as a progressive zemstvo activist in Tver province, helped found the Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party, and served in all four State Dumas. One of the Duma's finest orators, on 17 November 1907 he denounced Stolypin's field courts-martial from the rostrum as 'Stolypin's necktie,' a phrase that became emblematic of the repression; an enraged Stolypin challenged him to a duel, and Rodichev had to apologize. After the February Revolution he served as the Provisional Government's Commissar for Finnish Affairs, opposed the October Revolution by joining the White camp, and died in exile in Lausanne.
Career Timeline
- 1876Volunteered in the Serbo-Turkish War
- 1877–1895Zemstvo activist, Tver province; marshal of nobility, Vesegonsk district (1879–1891)
- 1898–1904Sworn attorney in St. Petersburg; exiled for signing protest over student beatings
- 1904–1905Co-organizer of zemstvo congresses and the Banquet Campaign; co-founder of the Kadet Party
- 1906–1917Kadet deputy to I–IV State Dumas; Central Committee member
- 1917.03–05Provisional Government Commissar for Finnish Affairs
- 1918–1920Joined the White movement; representative in Serbia and Poland
- 1920–1933In emigration: Paris, then Lausanne until his death