P. P. Durnovo
Pyotr Pavlovich Durnovo was Moscow's Governor General during the 1905 Russian Revolution. His dacha became the site of an anarchist occupation in 1917.[3] From 1881 to July 1917 he was the vowel of the Saint Petersburg City Duma (chairman from 1904). In the provincial zemstvo meeting, he was elected a member of the City Council, chairman of the Permanent Financial Commission of the City Council of St. Petersburg.
Pyotr Pavlovich Durnovo | |
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 Pyotr Pavlovich Durnovo | |
| Moscow's Governor[1] | |
| In office 16 December 1872 – 14 September 1878 | |
| Moscow's Governor-General[2] | |
| In office 15 July 1905 – 24 November 1905 |
Durnovo lived in a family mansion on 16 Angliyskaya Embankment, owned the Durnovo Dacha on Polyustrovskaya Embankment, as well as apartment buildings adjacent to it (No. 13-15).
From July to November 1905 he was the Moscow Governor-General and Commander of the Troops of the Moscow Military District.
References
- https://www.mos.ru/city/about/heads/93123/
- https://www.mos.ru/city/about/heads/93123/
- Lovell, Stephen (2016). Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000. Cornell University Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-5017-0457-4.
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