The far-right monarchist who hurled water glasses in the Duma and shot Rasputin
In his November 19, 1916 Duma speech: "While Rasputin is alive, we cannot win." Prince Felix Yusupov approached him immediately afterwards and proposed the assassination conspiracy.
The leading far-right monarchist politician of late Imperial Russia, who co-founded the Black Hundreds and the Union of the Archangel Michael. As a deputy to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th State Dumas, he was notorious for antisemitic, anti-parliamentary speeches and physical antics on the chamber floor. In December 1916, convinced that eliminating the court's 'dark forces' would save the monarchy, he joined the Rasputin conspiracy and personally fired his pistol at the fleeing starets. After the revolution he led an underground anti-Bolshevik organization, was arrested and amnestied, and died of typhus in Novorossiysk while serving the White movement.
Career Timeline
- 1905Helped organize the Black Hundreds; co-founded the Union of the Russian People
- 1907–1917Deputy to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th State Dumas (Bessarabia, Kursk)
- 1908Split from the Union of the Russian People; founded the Union of the Archangel Michael
- 1914–1917Organized and commanded a medical-aid train during WWI
- 1916.12Co-conspirator in the Rasputin assassination; personally fired shots
- 1917–1918Formed an anti-Bolshevik underground; arrested and amnestied
- 1919–1920Monarchist propaganda in White-held territory; published Blagovest