Aleksandr Konovalov (politician, born 1875)
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Konovalov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Конова́лов) (17 September 1875, Moscow – 28 January 1949, Paris, France; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery) was a Russian Kadet politician and entrepreneur. One of Russia's biggest textile manufacturers, he became a leader of the liberal, business-oriented Progressist Party and was a member of the Progressive Bloc in the Fourth Duma.
Biography
[edit]During World War I he was vice president of Alexander Guchkov's Military-Industrial Committee, and after the February Revolution he became Minister of Trade and Industry in the Provisional Government. He was an active member of the irregular freemasonic lodge, the Grand Orient of Russia’s Peoples.[1] After the October Revolution he emigrated to France, where he was a leader of leftist Russian émigrés; at the start of World War II he moved to the United States.
References
[edit]- ^ "Noteworthy members of the Grand Orient of France in Russia and the Supreme Council of the Grand Orient of Russia's People". Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. 15 October 2017.
External links
[edit]- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biographies with pictures (Russian)
- Michael T. Florinsky (ed.), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961), p. 284.
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- 1875 births
- 1948 deaths
- Politicians from Moscow
- People from Moskovsky Uyezd
- Old Believers
- Progressive Party (Russia) politicians
- Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members
- Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government
- Members of the 4th State Duma of the Russian Empire
- Russian Constituent Assembly members
- White Russian emigrants to France
- White Russian emigrants to the United States
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France
- Members of the Grand Orient of Russia's Peoples
- Trade ministers