Nikolai Pokrovsky

Nikolai Nikolayevich Pokrovsky Николай Николаевич Покровский
Boris Stürmer
Succeeded by	Pavel Milyukov ( as Foreign Minister of the Russian Republic)
Personal details
Born	(1865-01-27)27 January 1865 Saint Petersburg University
Profession	Diplomat, Russian foreign minister, teacher

Nikolai Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (Russian: Николай Николаевич Покровский) (27 January 1865 – 12 December 1930) was a (nationalist) Russian politician and the last foreign minister of the Russian Empire.

Life

Pokrovsky was born in

(retaining his post of the deputy finance minister until July 1914). From January to November 1916, Pokrovsky held the post of state inspector.

Minister of Foreign Affairs

On 30 November 1916 (N.S) he was appointed minister of foreign affairs. He succeeded

On 15 December [3] Pokrovsky said that Russia would never sign a peace treaty with the Central Powers,^[4] which caused a storm of applause in the Duma.^[5]

Pokrovsky favored the attraction of the American financial capital into the Russian economy. With the support of the Ministry of Finance, he proposed to send a special commission on economic and financial affairs to the United States. In January 1917, Pokrovsky prepared a document, in which he defended the idea of establishing close ties with the US in light of this country’s potentially decisive role in ending the war. In his note to the tsar from 21 February Pokrovsky expressed his confidence in victory over Germany and inquired about a possibility to prepare an

. The Bloc spoke for the resignation of the government.

After the February Revolution, Pokrovsky headed the Russo-American Committee on Assistance to the Economic Rapprochement between Russia and the US. After the October Revolution, Pokrovsky emigrated from Russia and taught at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, where he died in 1930.

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Political offices
Preceded by Boris Stürmer	Foreign Minister of Russia 17 November 1916 (O.S) – 2 March 1917 (O.S.)	Succeeded by Pavel Miliukov