Ivan Logginovich Goremykin

Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (born Oct. 27 [Nov. 8, New Style], 1839, Novgorod province, Russian Empire—died Dec. 11 [Dec. 24], 1917, Caucasus) was a Russian official and government minister whom many view as a symbol of the unresponsiveness of the tsarist regime to the social unrest preceding the Russian Revolution. Goremykin spent most of his life as a government bureaucrat, attaining successively more responsible positions until his appointment in 1895 as minister of the interior. Chiefly...