Nikolai Avksentiev
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Nikolai Avksentyev | |
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Николай Авксентьев | |
.jpg) Avksentiev in 1921 | |
| Chairman of the Russian Provisional Government | |
| In office September 23, 1918 – November 18, 1918 | |
| Preceded by | Position established (Vladimir Vol'skii as Chairman of the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly) |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished (Alexander Kolchak as Supreme Ruler of Russia) |
| Chairman of the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic | |
| In office October 3 – November 7, 1917 | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Ministry of the Interior | |
| In office August 7 – September 15, 1917 | |
| Preceded by | Irakli Tsereteli |
| Succeeded by | Alexey Nikitin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 28, 1878 University of Heidelberg |
Nikolai Dimitrovich Avksentyev (
Russian state from September 23 to November 18, 1918. He was overthrown and arrested by the Minister of War, Alexander Kolchak, who proclaimed himself the Supreme Ruler of Russia
.
Biography
Born into the Russian nobility, Nikolai Avksentiev attended school in
Grand Orient of Russia’s Peoples.[2]
After the
All-Russian Constituent Assembly from Penza
.
With reference to his role in the events of 1917, Leon Trotsky wrote that Avksentiev "was the complete caricature of a statesman. A really charming teacher of language in a ladies' seminary in Oryol - that is really all you can say about him, although, to be sure, his political activity turned out far more pernicious than his personality."[3]
After the
Krestov hospital thanks to the intervention of the People's Commissar of Justice, Socialist Revolutionary Isaac Steinberg.[4]
In March 1918, he became a leader of the
Nazi invasion of France, Avksentiev and his wife Berthe escaped to the United States, with an emergency visa provided by the Jewish Labor Committee and the American Federation of Labor
, where he published the magazine "For Freedom". Avksentiev died on March 4, 1943, in New York City.
His daughter, Alexandra became an accomplished painter.
References
- ^ Shmidt, O. Yu.; Bukharin N. I.; et al., eds. (1926). Большая советская энциклопедия volume 1. Moscow. p. 175.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Noteworthy members of the Grand Orient of France in Russia and the Supreme Council of the Grand Orient of Russia's People". Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. 15 October 2017.
- ^ Trotsky, Leon (1967). History of the Russian Revolution, volume one. London: Sphere. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ Ukhanukhin, I.I. "Memoirs of 1917-1918". Archived from the original on February 9, 2015. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
- ^ DL North Star
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