Alexey Sergeyevich Yermolov (; 12 November 1847 – 4 January 1917)Yermolov entry in the biographies of the State Council Members
was a Russian politician. Yermolov was born in 1847 (by some other sources in 1846), in 1866 graduated from the

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, in 1871 received the

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of agricultural sciences degree from the Petersburg Agricultural Institute.Yermolov entry in Rulex online Encyclopedia
Worked as a senior editor of the statistical department and member of the Research Council of the Imperial Ministry for Agriculture. He was the leader of the expedition to study

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in the Empire. In 1883-1892 he served as the head of the

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ation department of the Ministry for Economics. In 1892 he became the Deputy to Ministry for Finance.Yermolov entry in All-Russian Genealogical Tree
In 1893 became Minister of Agriculture and State Properties of

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and served until 1905. Since 1905 he was a member of

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. He was an active member of the '' Free Economic Society'' (Вольное Экономическое Общество) and published a lot of scientific articles in the ''Works'' of the Society. In 1878 he represented the society at the

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. In 1886-1888 he served as the vice-president of the Society. In 1899 Yermolov was elected a member of the

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. Yermolov and

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were targets of the sharp criticism by

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in his work ''What the “Friends of the People” Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats''.''What the “Friends of the People” Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats''
by

According to Lenin, Yermolov's opposition to migration as it could cause a shortage of labour for landowners, saying "What do the peasants exist for, if not to work and feed the idle landlords and their “high-placed” servitors?"

Some works

* «Новые исследования фосфоритов» (1867); * «О добывании, переработке и употреблении кругляков ископаемой фосфорнокислой извести во Франции» (1870); * «Фосфориты под Москвой и в Московской губернии» (1870); * «Очерки побитюжья» (1871); * «Высшее сельскохозяйственное образование в его отношениях к сельскому делу в России» (1872); * «Организация теоретических и практических испытаний для решения вопроса об удобрении почв» (1872); * «Recherches sur les gisements de phosphate de chaux fossile en Russie» (1873); * «Сельскохозяйственное дело Европы и Америки на Венской всемирной выставке 1873 г. и в эпоху её» (1875); * «Винокурение из стеблей кукурузы» (1878); * «Из заграничной поездки» (1878); * «Notice sur les céréales de la Russie» (1878); * «Mémoire sur la production agricole de la Russie» (1878); * «Организация полевого хозяйства» (2-е изд., 1891); * «Сельскохозяйственно-статистическая литература на всемирной выставке в Париже 1878 г.» (1879); * «Неурожай и народное бедствие» (1892). * Под редакцией Ермолов напечатан перевод сочинения Ж. Билля: «Химические удобрения» (1872). * С 1890 г. помещалась им в журнале «Русское Обозрение» сельскохозяйственная хроника; первая серия этих этюдов издана особо, под заглавием: «Современные сельскохозяйственные вопросы» (1891).

References

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