Alexei Khvostov

Aleksey Nikolayevich Khvostov (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Хвосто́в, IPA:

Minister of Interior

for five months, opposed constitutional reforms and publicly accused Rasputin of spying for Germany. He had to resign after he planned to secretly have him eliminated.

Life

Khvostov was born in a noble family of land proprietors. After finishing the

Imperial Alexander Lyceum in Tsarskoye Selo, he became a student in Law. In 1898 he married Ekaterina Popova, the daughter of Alexander Popov (1835-1914), a senator. In 1904 he became vice governor of Minsk and later that year was appointed in Tula. In 1906 Khvostov became Vice Governor and then Governor of Nizhny Novgorod. When Pyotr Stolypin was murdered Grigori Rasputin paid him a visit in order of the Tsar "to look in his soul", but came to the conclusion he was too young to be appointed as minister. Also Count Kokovtsov protested.^[3]

In 1906 it is believed that Khvostov participated in a massacre of peasants in the province of

Tsar Nicholas II.^[4]

In 1912 he was elected to the

Old Style) to March 3, 1916. His uncle Aleksandr Khvostov

was opposed to the appointment of his nephew.

The Russian Minister of the Interior, A.N. Chvostov, has recently declared himself in favor of inaugurating a fight against the "yellow press", which has grown considerably during recent years. Not long ago, some of these newspapers were involved in "society scandals", their part in them being exposed by rather sensational trials. Mr. Chvostov's Ministry has under consideration a plan for exiling from Petrograd the journalists who were connected with the newspapers involved in the scandals.[5]

After Khvostov came into office he began to intrigue against his colleagues, against the Prime Minister himself in order to get his place, and finally against his benefactor Rasputin. Khvostov and

Boris Stürmer

, his uncle Aleksandr Khvostov, became his successor.

Khvostov was arrested and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress by the Russian Provisional Government during the February Revolution of 1917. In 1918, less than a year after the Bolsheviks seized power he was executed by firing squad in Petrovsky Park, Moscow.

References

^ Smith, D. (2016) Rasputin, p. 456
^ Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard, p. 363
^ J.T. Fuhrmann (2013) The Untold Story
^ Sukloff, Marie (1914). The Life-Story of A Russian Exile. Translated by Yarros, Gregory. The Century Co. pp. 131–146.
^ Wikisource
^ A. Kerensky (1965) Russia and History's turning point, p. 160.
^ G. King (1994) The Last Empress. The Life & Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, tsarina of Russia , p. 258.
^ Fuhrmann (2013) The Untold Story, p. 164-165.

Political offices
Preceded by Nikolai Borisovich Shcherbatov	Minister of Interior September 26, 1915 – March 3, 1916	Succeeded by Boris Stürmer

[1] Smith, D. (2016) Rasputin, p. 456

[2] Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War by Jörn Leonhard, p. 363

[3] J.T. Fuhrmann (2013) The Untold Story

[4] Sukloff, Marie (1914). The Life-Story of A Russian Exile. Translated by Yarros, Gregory. The Century Co. pp. 131–146.

[5] Wikisource

[6] A. Kerensky (1965) Russia and History's turning point, p. 160.

[7] G. King (1994) The Last Empress. The Life & Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, tsarina of Russia , p. 258.

[8] Fuhrmann (2013) The Untold Story, p. 164-165.

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