Sergey Sergeevich Manukhin (1856–1922) was a politician from the

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. After graduating from the

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, he entered the

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. He served in the position of Director of the Ministry's First Department and Assistant Minister of Justice. In 1905 he briefly served as Minister of Justice in the

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government. He left that post just prior to Witte's resignation after accusations of not being firm or energetic enough in the face of widespread disorders following the disastrous

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of 1904–1905. He was appointed to the Imperial State Council in 1905.

References

* Out of My Past: The Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov Edited by H.H. Fisher and translated by Laura Matveev; Stanford University Press, 1935. * The Memoirs of Count Witte. Edited and translated by Sydney Harcave; Sharpe Press, 1990. {{DEFAULTSORT:Manukhin, Sergey 1856 births 1922 deaths Saint Petersburg State University alumni Monarchists from the Russian Empire Justice ministers of the Russian Empire Victims of the Red Terror in Soviet Russia