Police Department of Russia
Департамент полиции Российской империи (Departament politsii Rossiyskoy imperii) | |
Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Empire | |
Child agency |
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The Police Department of the
History
The Police Department was established on August 6, 1880 following the dissolution of the
After the February Revolution the Department was dissolved by the decree of the Russian provisional government from February 27, 1917.
After the October Revolution the government has announced the establishment of the Militsiya, as the new police force.
Director
The head of the department was The Director of the Police Department, which was appointed by the Minister of the Internal Affairs.
Minister | Start year | End year |
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Ivan Velio | 1880 | 1881 |
Vyacheslav von Plehve | 1881 | 1884 |
Pyotr Durnovo
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1884 | 1893 |
Nikolai Petrov | 1893 | 1895 |
Nikolai Saburov | 1895 | 1896 |
Anton Dobrzhinsky | 1896 | 1897 |
Sergei Zvolyansky | 1897 | 1902 |
Aleksei Lopukhin | 1902 | 1905 |
Sergei Kovalensky | March 1905 | June 1905 |
Nikolai Garin | July 1905 | November 1905 |
Emmanuel Vuich | 1905 | 1906 |
Maximilian Trusevich | 1906 | 1909 |
Nil Zuev | 1909 | 1912 |
Stepan Beletsky | 1912 | 1914 |
Valentine Brun de Saint Hippolyte | 1914 | 1915 |
Ruschu Mollov | September 1915 | November 1915 |
Konstantin Kafafov | 1915 | 1916 |
Evgeny Klimovich | February 1916 | September 1916 |
Aleksey Vasilyev | 1916 | 1917 |
See also
- Ministry of Police of Imperial Russia
- Okhrana
Further reading
- Ronald Hingley, The Russian Secret Police: Muscovite, Imperial, and Soviet Political Security Operations (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1970). ISBN 0-671-20886-1
- R. J. Stove, The Unsleeping Eye: Secret Police and Their Victims (Encounter Books, San Francisco, 2003). ISBN 1-893554-66-X
- ISBN 978-0-521-81529-1.