Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Protopopov

Russian statesman

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Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Protopopov (born December 30 [December 18, Old Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia—died January 1, 1918 [December 19, 1917], Moscow) was a Russian statesman who was imperial Russia’s last minister of the interior (1916–17). A landowner and industrialist, Protopopov was elected a delegate from Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) province to the third Duma (Russian legislature) in 1907 and joined the left wing of the conservative Octobrist Party. Elected again to the fourth Duma (1912), he became...