Solomon Samuilovich Krym (Russian: Соломон Самойлович Крым; 1864 – 1936) was a Crimean politician, statesman and agronomist of Crimean Karaite origin. He was elected in 1906 to the

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(1906–07) as a ''Kadet'' (

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). He was an active member of the irregular

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lodge, the Grand Orient of Russia’s Peoples. A few months after the dismantling of the Tatar-controlled

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, he was briefly the Finance Minister under the first

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headed by General Suleyman Sulkiewicz. On November 16, 1918, he became the Prime Minister of the second short-lived Crimean Regional liberal, anti-separatist and anti-Soviet government. His Foreign Affairs Minister was

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, another former ''Kadet'' member of the First Duma. After the defeat of the

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in April 1919 he emigrated and went into exile in a Russian ''émigrés'' colony at

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(

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), building a house on the "Russian hill" there.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Krym, Salomon 1864 births 1936 deaths People from Feodosia People from Taurida Governorate Crimean Karaites Jewish Russian politicians Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members Members of the 1st State Duma of the Russian Empire Members of the 4th State Duma of the Russian Empire Members of the Grand Orient of Russia's Peoples Imperial Moscow University alumni Ukrainian Freemasons White Russian emigrants to France