Prince Boris Aleksandrovich Vasilchikov (; 1863, Vybiti,

Novgorod Governorate Novgorod Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (''guberniya'') of the Russian Empire and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, which existed from 1727 to 1776 and from 1796 to 1927. Its administrative cent ...

– 1931,

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) — Russian politician.

Biography

Graduated from the Imperial School of Law; entered the Ministry of Justice, 1881. Elected Marshal of Nobility of Staraia Russa Uezd, 1884, of Novgorod Guberniya (1890). Governor of

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(1900–1903); Head of the Red Cross for the Northeastern District during the

Russo-Japanese War The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major land battles of the war were fought on the ...

. Chairman of the Russian Red Cross Society. Member of the State Council (1906). Head of the Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture in the Pyotr Stolypin cabinet (July 1906 – May 1908). Emigrated to France in 1920 from the

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after the

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Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vasilchikov, Boris 1863 births 1931 deaths People from Novgorod Oblast People from Starorussky Uyezd Nobility from the Russian Empire Government ministers of Russia Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Marshals of nobility Memoirists from the Russian Empire Imperial School of Jurisprudence alumni Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia) Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress Immigrants to France