Mikhail Loris-Melikov

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Loris-Melikov
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Count Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov
Граф Михаил Тариелович Лорис-Меликов
Միքայել Լոռու-Մելիքյան
Minister of the Interior
In office
6 August 1880 – 4 May 1881
MonarchsAlexander II
Alexander III
Preceded byLev Makov
Succeeded byNikolay Ignatyev
Personal details
Born(1824-10-21)21 October 1824
Georgia
SpousePrincess Nina Ivanovna Argutinska-Dolgorukova
Awards
Order of St. Vladimir First Class Order of St. Vladimir Second Class Order of St. Vladimir Third Class Order of St. Vladimir Fourth Class
Order of St. George Second Class Order of St. George Third Class

Order of St. Anna First Class Order of St. Anna Second Class Order of St. Anna Third Class Order of St. Anna Fourth Class

Order of Saint Stanislaus First Class  Order of Saint Stanislaus Second Class  Order of Saint Stanislaus Third Class 


Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78

Count Mikhail Tarielovich Loris-Melikov (

H. I. M. Retinue
.

The Princes of Lori - Loris-Melikovs are the representatives of an old noble family whose ancestors in the 14th century owned the town of Lori and the province of the same name. They belonged to the top aristocratic society of Georgia. In Russian nobility the princely family of the Loris-Melikovs (is translated from Georgian as “The Princes of Lori”) was approved in 1832.

Biography

Early life

He was born in

St Petersburg, first at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages, and afterwards at the Guards' Cadet Institute. He joined a hussar regiment, and four years afterwards (1847) he was sent to the Caucasus, where he remained for more than twenty years, and made for himself during troubled times the reputation of a distinguished cavalry officer and an able administrator. In the latter capacity, though a keen soldier, he aimed always at preparing the warlike and turbulent population committed to his charge for the transition from military to normal civil administration
, and in this work his favorite instrument was the schoolmaster.

Military career

In the

Order of Saint George
of the second degree on October 27, 1877, for his service in Ajaria.

Civil administrator

Georgia
.

In the following year, Loris-Melikov became the temporary governor-general of the region of the Lower

Anarchists, who had adopted a policy of terrorism, and had succeeded in assassinating the governor of Kharkov.[1]

His success in this struggle led to his appointment as chief of the Supreme Administrative Commission which had been created in

terrorist agitation in general.[2]
Here, as in the Caucasus, he showed a decided preference for the employment of ordinary legal methods rather than exceptional extralegal measures, even after an attempt on his own life soon afterwards. He believed that the best policy was to strike at the root of the evil by removing the causes of popular discontent and recommended to the emperor
Minister of the Interior with exceptional powers.[3]

The proposed

Zemstvos were granted positions, they were not allowed to vote. The intellectuals of Russia derided these reforms as rubber-stamping and an unwillingness to put forward any substantial, constitutional reforms. This ukase was designed and advocated by Loris-Melikov, and on the very day (13 March 1881) of its acceptance by the emperor, the emperor was assassinated.[4] But after the assassination, Loris-Melikov hesitated about publishing the order for a popular commission, and waited for the new tsar, who turned out to be very opposed to a constitution in Russia.[5] Alexander III
at once adopted a strongly anti-reformist policy.

When the new Tsar started to undo some of the reforms that his father, Alexander II had promulgated, Count Loris-Melikov resigned several months later and lived in retirement until his death at Nice on 22 December 1888.[6]

See also

Notes

  1. ISBN 0-691-11569-9
    .
  2. ISBN 1-84331-034-1
    .
  3. ISBN 0-582-23415-8
    .
  4. ^ Peter Kropotkin (1905-01-01). "The Constitutional Movement in Russia". revoltlib.com. The Nineteenth Century.
  5. ^ Peter Kropotkin (1901). "The Present Crisis in Russia". The North American Review.
  6. ^ Moss. History Of Russia, p. 45.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Loris-Melikov, Michael Tarielovich, Count". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 8–9.

Further reading

  • Wright, Patricia. "Loris-Melikov: Russia, 1880-1." History Today (June 1974), Vol. 24 Issue 6, pp 413–419 online.

External links

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Minister of Interior

1880 – 1881 		Succeeded by
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