Aleksandr Stishinsky

Aleksandr Semenovich Stishinsky was a Russian statesman and nationalist politician.

Biography

Graduate of Moscow University. Worked in the Department for General Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior; transferred to the Imperial Chancellery ; Assistant State Secretary, then again transferred to the Ministry of the Interior; Head of the Peasant Section ; Assistant Imperial Secretary. Assistant Minister of the Interior. Member of State Council, belonged to its right-wing group.
Head of the Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture in the Goremykin cabinet.
Chairman of the Committee to Fight German Domination .
He was arrested during the February Revolution and imprisoned for 9 months in Peter and Paul Fortress. Released in December 1917, he fled to Poltava, then to Kuban. He died in Constantinople in 1920.