Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov
For the poet Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov (1757–1807), see 
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Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov (
Hague Peace Conference
.
Life and career
Mikhail Muravyov was the son of
Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky, who became notorious for his drastic measures in stamping out the Polish insurrection of 1863 in the Lithuanian provinces. He was educated at a secondary school at Poltava, and was for a short time at Heidelberg University
.
In 1864, he entered the
Red Cross Society in charge of an ambulance
train provided by Queen Olga of Württemberg.
After the war, he was successively first secretary in
Nicholas II
to be his minister of foreign affairs.
The next three and a half years were a critical time for
Talienwan
from China; he told the British ambassador that these would be open ports, and afterwards significantly modified this pledge.
When Tsar Nicholas II inaugurated the
Peking connived at the agitation which culminated in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, relations between Muravyov and the tsar became strained. Muravyov died suddenly on June 21, 1900, after a stormy interview with Sergei Witte and Aleksey Kuropatkin in which Witte laid considerable blame on Muravyov for the crisis in China (Muravyov had insisted on taking Port Arthur against Witte's advice); because there was a wound on his left temple when he died, there was a rumor that he had committed suicide, but "the official government announcement asserted that, after rising late, he had merely slipped in his study and grazed his temple on the sharp side of a bureau."[1]
He was awarded Order of the White Eagle and a number of other decorations.[2]
Notes
- ISBN 0582491142), p. 73.
- ^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 631.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Muraviev, Michael Nikolaievich". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 31.
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