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Stepan Petrovich Beletsky ( rus, Белецкий Степан Петрович) ( Chernigov, around 1872-Moscow, 5 September 1918) was a Russian statesman in the
Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
and the Head of the Police Department and involved in scandals around
Grigori Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; rus, links=no, Григорий Ефимович Распутин ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, thus g ...
. In January 1914 he was appointed as senator in the
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.


Life

In 1894 he graduated in law at the University of Kyiv, in the same year appointed as civil servant, responsible for art and printing. In 1899 he was appointed as governor of the
Kovno Governorate Kovno Governorate ( rus, Ковенская губеpния, r=Kovenskaya guberniya; lt, Kauno gubernija) or Governorate of Kaunas was a governorate ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire. Its capital was Kaunas (Kovno in Russian). It was formed ...
in Lithuania; in 1904 he was transferred from
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to
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, in February 1907 in
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, where he was appointed as vice-governor and applied the newly introduced land reforms by Stolypin. When Stolypin became prime minister, he invited Beletsky to become assistant director of the Department of Police (between August 1909 and March 1912). Beletsky became its director until 1915. In this capacity, Beletsky was responsible for recruiting
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inside revolutionary organisations, including senior
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, his highest paid spy, who won
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's trust, and was elected as a deputy to the Fourth Duma. Some of the drafts of speeches Malinovsky delivered were found, after the revolution, to have amendments in Beletsky's handwriting. Beletsky instructed Malinovsky and his other moles to prevent the reunification of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. From October 1914 Beletsky exercised 24-hour surveillance of Rasputin and his apartment. Two sets of detectives were attached to his person; one was to act undercover. From 1 January 1915 modified reports from
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spies – the "staircase notes" – had to provide evidence about Rasputin's lifestyle. They were given to the Tsar in an unsuccessful attempt to discredit Rasputin. On 25 March 1915 (O.S.) Rasputin left for Moscow by train, accompanied by both detectives. The following evening he is said, while inebriated, to have opened his trousers and waved his "reproductive organ" in front of a group of female gypsy singers in the
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. Dzhunkovsky and Beletsky verified later that Rasputin never visited the Yar restaurant. Dzhunkovsky was fired in August and succeeded by Beletsky. No entries exist after Beletsky lost his position as the Director of the Police. Also for Bernard Pares, it was taken that the police were the enemies of Rasputin, and that the many stories which reached the public were simply their fabrications. In September 1915 he became assistant minister of the Interior until February 1916.
Alexei Khvostov Aleksey Nikolayevich Khvostov () (1 July 1872 – 23 August 1918) was a right-wing Russian politician and the leader of the Russian Assembly. He was a governor, a Privy Councillor (Russia), a chamberlain, a member of the Black Hundreds, and anti- ...
,
Iliodor Sergei Michailovich Trufanov (Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Труфа́нов; formerly Hieromonk Iliodor or Hieromonk Heliodorus, russian: Иеромонах Илиодор; October 19, 1880 – 28 January 1952) was a lapsed hie ...
and Beletsky concocted a plan to kill Rasputin. By
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Beletsky was to be reassigned to
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, but the appointment was cancelled after the story was revealed in a newspaper.
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, p. 386.
Early 1917 he was arrested by the
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during the
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and locked up in the
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. After bail the arrested were released, but Beletsky decided not to go abroad. He was rearrested during the
Red Terror The Red Terror (russian: Красный террор, krasnyj terror) in Soviet Russia was a campaign of political repression and executions carried out by the Bolsheviks, chiefly through the Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police. It started in lat ...
. In 1918 he was transported to Moscow and executed at Khodynka or in Petrovsky Park.


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