from 24 November 1905 to 5 July 1906.
Fyodor Dubasov was born into the noble family of the Dubasovy [ru] in Tver Governorate. His family had long been associated[citation needed] with the Imperial Russian Navy: one of his ancestors, Avtonom Dubasov, had participated in the capture of a Swedish galley in 1709.[1]
Naval Service
In 1870 Dubasov graduated from the
. Dubasov was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1893 and Vice-Admiral in 1889
In 1897–1899, Fyodor Dubasov was placed in charge of the
Russian Admiralty. In June 1905 he was elected a permanent member of the
State Defense Council. In 1905 he was the Russian representative on the international committee investigating the
Dogger Bank incidentDubasov's role in the Moscow Uprising of 1905
In 1905 Admiral Dubasov was put in charge of punitive expeditions charged with crushing
Chernigov,
Poltava, and
Kursk guberniyas. Upon becoming the governor general of Moscow, Dubasov openly characterized himself as the "barnburner". Aspiring to set up rigid administrative control at all levels, Fyodor Dubasov submitted memos to the
tsar with suggestions to broaden the powers of governor general and to bring the Moscow garrison directly under his control (was refused). On 6 December 1905 Dubasov placed the garrison troops, the police, and
gendarmerie on instant alert. On 7 December the Moscow Soviet called a general strike. Dubasov sanctioned the declaration of a state of emergency in the city and authorized mass arrests. On 8 December Fyodor Dubasov ordered the dispersion of a rally in the
Aquarium Garden. On 9 December he sanctioned active involvement of the police by troops of the Moscow garrison whom he had concentrated in the center of City. A major part of the military force available was divided into two units (positioned respectively at the
Theatre Square and the
Manege Square). The reserve echelon was located in the
Kremlin barracks. The government troops occupied the railway stations, State Bank, telegraph, post office,
telephone exchange, and
water supply. Dubasov called upon the city fire brigades and armed night watchmen to assist the army. On 11 December Fyodor the Admiral issued a decree, which made homeowners personally liable for "letting" the insurgents shoot at the government troops from roofs and windows of their houses. With the increase of numbers of arrested, Dubasov ordered the transferral of some of the prisoners to Petersburg. On 12–13 December he organized large-scale punitive actions against the rioters. As a result, the government troops got the upper hand on 14 December. The authorities introduced the
curfew from 21:00 to 7:00 and published a decree forbidding all meetings.
Concern at the reliability of the infantry conscripts who made up the bulk of the permanent garrison of Moscow, had initially placed constraints on Dubasov's repression of the rising. Upon the arrival of the
Socialist-Revolutionary Party
Boris Vnorovsky-Mishchenko made an attempt on the life of Fyodor Dubasov by throwing a bomb under his carriage. The explosion killed Dubasov's
adjutant and the terrorist himself and wounded the governor general and his coachman.
In July 1906, following the assassination attempt, Fyodor Dubasov was formally replaced as Governor General of Moscow . He was appointed as a member of the
State Council
.
Later life
Dubasov retired to Saint Petersburg in poor health as a result of his injuries. He was involved in building the Church of the Saviour on the Waters in St Petersburg in memory of the Russian sailors killed in the Russo-Japanese War. He died in 1912, just a day before his 67th birthday and was buried in Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
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