Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Shakhovskoy (; 1861,

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– 1939,

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) was a Russian liberal politician.

Life

Active participant in

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congresses, 1904–1905; one of the organizers of the

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. One of the founders of

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and permanent member of the Central Committee of the

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. Member and secretary of the Cadet group in the First

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. In May–July 1917 he was Minister of Social Welfare in the

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. After the Bolshevik revolution he was active in Soviet cooperative institutions, 1930. He was arrested by the

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and executed on 15 April 1939.

References

* V.I. Gurko
Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.
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