Mikhail Rodzianko

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vladimirovich and the family name is Rodzianko.

Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko
Boris Stürmer
Alexander Trepov
Nikolai Golitsyn
Preceded byAlexander Guchkov
Succeeded byIvan Rybkin (1994)
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Born(1859-02-21)21 February 1859
Popasnoye,
Imperial Guards
Years of service1877-1885
RankLieutenant
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Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko (

Nicholas II of Russia on 15 March 1917.[2]

Life

Rodzianko was born in the village of

Galitzine (1859-1929); the couple had three children. In 1885 he retired and lived on his estate in the Novgorod Oblast. He was appointed as Marshall of the Gentry. Rodzianko served as Kammerherr in 1899. In 1900 he was elected in Yekaterinoslav Governorate. From 1903 until 1905 he was editor of a newspaper, called "Herald Katerynoslav zemstvos."[3] In 1906 he was elected for the Zemstvo as Provincial Zemstvo Executive.[4]

In 1905 Rodzianko had been one of the founders and leaders of the

Aleksandr Guchkov, who was hated by the court as a "Young Turk."[5] He then continued as the Chairman of the Fourth Duma from 15 November 1912 until its dissolution on 6 October 1917 (before the October Revolution
).

Chairman of the Fourth Duma

Mikhail Rodzianko, 1910

Rodzianko thought the meeting between

Khlyst.[7]
"The emperor took no account of the report which nevertheless proved undoubtedly that Rasputin was not the holy man he claimed to be."[citation needed]

On 21 February 1913, Rodzianko dismissed Rasputin from the

Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan in Saint Petersburg shortly before the celebration of the tercentenary of Romanov rule over Russia. He had established himself in front of the seats which Rodzianko, after considerable difficulty, had secured for the Duma. According to Orlando Figes, "the members were to be seated at the back, far behind the places reserved for the state councilors and senators. This, he complained to the master of ceremonies, was 'not following the dignity' of the parliament."[8] Rasputin considered Rodzianko a personal enemy.[citation needed
]

"Rodzianko told the Tsar in March 1913: 'A war will be joyfully welcomed and it will raise the government's prestige.'"

Austrian Galicia
.

On 11 August 1915, the day the Emperor announced he would take the Supreme Command from

Grand Duke Nicholas, according to M. Nelipa, Rodzianko suffered a heart attack.[10] Somehow Rodzianko participated in the creation of the Progressive Bloc.[11]

For Rodzianko,

Boris Stürmer would become a dictator with full powers early in 1916.[12]

In the Summer of 1916, there was another crisis in the government: Rodzianko proposed Alexander Protopopov to the Emperor and Protopopov hinted at Rodzianko as Premier and Foreign Minister. But after Protopopov had become Minister of the Interior and had expressed admiration for the ruling family, the Duma attacked him fiercely and called at once for his dismissal. Rodzianko demanded that the Empress be internally exiled to the Crimea until the end of the war. The Empress demanded in response that Rodzianko's court rank be taken from him;[13] she referred to him in her letters as a scoundrel.[14]

Elisabeth, Grand Duchess Victoria, and the Emperor's own mother tried to influence the Emperor or his stubborn wife [15] to remove Rasputin, but without success.[16] Rodzianko told Nicholas the truth, after being urged by the Emperor's mother and sisters. To him, the Empress Alexandra clearly should not have been allowed to interfere in state affairs until the end of the war; she treated her husband as if he were a little boy, quite incapable of taking care of himself.[17]

On 7 January 1917, Rodzianko told the Tsar in regard of his government, "All the best men have been removed or have retired. There remain [only] those of ill repute."[18]

February Revolution

The Interim Committee of the State Duma in 1917
Mikhail Rodzianko in 1917

Mikhail Rodzianko was one of the key politicians during the Russian

Social Revolutionary Party. Rodzianko appointed General Lavr Kornilov
as head over the troops in Petrograd. In the evening Rodzianko led abdication talks with Tsar, to satisfy the crowds.

Early in the morning of 2 March (

Pavel Miliukov Rodzianko visited Grand Duke Michael. The Grand Duke declined the crown after a long talk with Rodzianko.[26][27]

Rodzianko remained prime minister just for a few days. He succeeded in publishing an order for the immediate return of the soldiers to their barracks and subordinate to their officers.

Georgi Lvov, a member of the Constitutional Democratic Party
, became his successor.

Later years

Together with

Lenin, he left Petrograd and moved to Rostov-on-Don and Crimea. Rodzianko supported Anton Denikin and Pyotr Wrangel but when it became clear the White Army had lost, he emigrated to Serbia in 1920. There he wrote his memoirs The Reign of Rasputin: an Empire's Collapse. According to Bernard Pares he died in great poverty.[29]
His remains were moved to the new cemetery in Belgrade.

References

  1. ^ "Mikhail Rodzianko".
  2. ^ The Russian Revolution. By Richard Pipes
  3. ^ Leon Trotsky (1932) The History of the Russian Revolution. Volume One: The Overthrow of Tzarism.
  4. ^ Bernard Pares' introduction to Rodzianko (1927), at p.v.
  5. ^ Leon Trotsky (1932) The History of the Russian Revolution. Volume One: The Overthrow of Tzarism.
  6. ^ G. King (1994) The Last Empress. The Life & Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia, p. 188; B. Moynahan (1997) Rasputin. The saint who sinned, p. 168; A. Spiridovich (1935) Raspoutine (1863-1916), p. 286; J.T. Fuhrmann (2013) Rasputin, the untold story, p. 92.
  7. ^ E. Radzinsky (2000) Rasputin: The Last Word, p. 230.
  8. ^ O. Figes (1996) A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924, p. 9.
  9. ^ O. Figes (1996) A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924, p. 248.
  10. ISBN 978-0-9865310-1-9
    .
  11. ^ Leon Trotsky (1932) The History of the Russian Revolution. Volume One: The Overthrow of Tzarism.
  12. ^ Nelipa, pp. 63-64.
  13. ^ B. Pares (1939), "The Fall of the Russian Monarchy", p. 381, 395.
  14. ^ Leon Trotsky (1932) The History of the Russian Revolution. Volume One: The Overthrow of Tzarism.
  15. ^ The Real Tsaritsa by Madame Lili Dehn
  16. ^ The Russian Provisional Government, 1917: Documents, Volume 1, p. 18 by Robert Paul Browder, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky
  17. ISBN 1443730297
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  18. ^ History of the Russian Revolution. By Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman
  19. ^ Alexanderpalace
  20. ^ Through the Russian Revolution : Notes of an Eye -Witness, from 12th March 30th May.
  21. ^ History of the Russian Revolution. By Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman
  22. ^ The Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide By Abraham AscherThe Russian Provisional Government, 1917: Documents, Volume 1. Edited by Robert Paul Browder, Aleksandr Fyodorovich Kerensky
  23. ^ History of the Russian Revolution. By Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman
  24. ^ Alexanderpalace
  25. ^ History of the Russian Revolution. By Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman
  26. ^ O. Figes (1996) A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924, p. 341-342, 345.
  27. ^ History of the Russian Revolution. By Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman
  28. ^ History of the Russian Revolution. By Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman
  29. ^ Bernard Pares' introduction to Rodzianko (1927), at p.viii.

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Preceded by
Aleksandr Guchkov
 Chairman of the
State Duma

22 March 1911 — 6 October 1917 		Succeeded by
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