Aleksandr Konovalov (politician)
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Konovalov (Template:Langx) (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
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.
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External links
- 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
- Party of Peaceful Renovation politicians
- 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
- Members of the State Duma of the Russian Empire from Kostroma Governorate
- Russian Constituent Assembly members
- Members of the Grand Orient of Russia's Peoples
- White Russian emigrants to France
- White Russian emigrants to the United States