Prince Pyotr Dmitriyevich Dolgorukov (russian: Князь Пётр Дми́триевич Долгору́ков; 1866,

Tsarskoye Selo Tsarskoye Selo ( rus, Ца́рское Село́, p=ˈtsarskəɪ sʲɪˈlo, a=Ru_Tsarskoye_Selo.ogg, "Tsar's Village") was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the c ...

– 1951. Vladimir) was Russian liberal politician.

Life

Graduate of

Moscow University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. Well-known

zemstvo A ''zemstvo'' ( rus, земство, p=ˈzʲɛmstvə, plural ''zemstva'' – rus, земства) was an institution of local government set up during the great emancipation reform of 1861 carried out in Imperial Russia by Emperor Alexande ...

man and for many years chairman of

Sudzha Sudzha (russian: Суджа) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Urban localities *Sudzha, Kursk Oblast, a town in Sudzhansky District of Kursk Oblast Rural localities *Sudzha, Republic of Buryatia, a settlement under the adm ...

Zemstvo Board. For his radical pronouncements at the sessions of Sudzha Uezd Committee to Study the Needs of Agricultural Industry, he was removed from his post by

Plehve Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve ( rus, Вячесла́в (Wenzel (Славик)) из Плевны Константи́нович фон Пле́ве, p=vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf fɐn ˈplʲevʲɪ; – ) served as a director of Imperial Russ ...

but reinstated under Sviatopolk-Mirsky. He was one of the founders of the

Union of Liberation The Union of Liberation (russian: Союз Освобождения, ''Soyuz Osvobozhdeniya'') was a liberal political group founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia in January 1904 under the influence of Peter Berngardovich Struve, a former Marxist. ...

and of the periodical publication ''Osvobozhdenie''. He participated in zemstvo congresses, 1904–1905. One of the founders of the

Constitutional Democratic Party ) , newspaper = '' Rech'' , ideology = Constitutionalism Constitutional monarchismLiberal democracy Parliamentarism Political pluralismSocial liberalism , position = Centre to centre-left , international = , colo ...

, member and vice-chairman of the First

State Duma The State Duma (russian: Госуда́рственная ду́ма, r=Gosudárstvennaja dúma), commonly abbreviated in Russian as Gosduma ( rus, Госду́ма), is the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, while the upper hous ...

, 1906. He was convicted by the court and imprisoned for three months for signing the

Vyborg Appeal The Vyborg Manifesto (russian: Выборгское воззвание, translit=Vyborgskoye Vozzvaniye, fi, Viipurin manifesti, sv, Viborgsmanifestet); also called the Vyborg Appeal) was a proclamation signed by several Russian politicians, pri ...

. In 1909 he was reelected chairman of Sudzhensky Uyezd Zemstvo Board. He married and returned home, where he lived with his family (children Mikhail and Natalia) until the revolution. After the 1917 revolution the family moved to Kaukas, 1919 to Crimea, in 1920 they emigrated from Russia to Istanbul, since 1922 they lived in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

, where Pyotr Dmitriyevich between 1927-1941 lead Russian emigre organizations in

Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...

. His twin brother

Pavel Dolgorukov Prince Pavel Dmitrievich Dolgorukov (russian: Князь Па́вел Дми́триевич Долгору́ков, tr. ; 1866, Tsarskoye Selo – June 9, 1927) was a Russian landowner and aristocrat who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1 ...

was executed by bolsheviks in 1927. On the 9th of June

1945 1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. It is also the only year in which nuclear weapons have been used in combat. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. Januar ...

he was in Prague arrested by

SMERSH SMERSH (russian: СМЕРШ) was an umbrella organization for three independent counter-intelligence agencies in the Red Army formed in late 1942 or even earlier, but officially announced only on 14 April 1943. The name SMERSH was coined by Josep ...

, convicted for anti-Soviet activities and taken to the Soviet Union. He spent last years of his life in Soviet prisons. He died in 1951. The date and place is unclear, maybe Butyrska prison. He was the Great Uncle of Norwegian singer

Georg Kajanus Georg Johan Tjegodiev r TchegodaieffKajanus (born 9 February 1946) is a Norwegian composer and pop musician, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the British pop group Sailor. Early years Kajanus was born in Trondheim, Norway, to ...

of pop band

Sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. The profession of the ...

References

*V.I. Gurko
Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.
*Anastazie Kopřivová: КНЯЖЕСКИЙ РОД ДОЛГОРУКОВЫХ, К 150-летию со дня рождения П. Д. Долгорукова, in: Журнал Русская традиция, 26 октября 2016; onlin

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Bibliography

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dolgorukov, Pyotr 1866 births 1951 deaths People from Pushkin, Saint Petersburg People from Tsarskoselsky Uyezd Pyotr Dmitriyevich Russian princes Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members Members of the 1st State Duma of the Russian Empire Moscow State University alumni White Russian emigrants to Czechoslovakia