Pyotr Valuev

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Pyotr Valuev

Russian government official

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Russian Empire
The revolutionary movements
…Office was given (1861) to Pyotr Valuev, who tried to paralyze the introduction of the emancipation law and formally prosecuted its faithful adherents. University troubles brought about the removal of the liberal minister of public instruction, Aleksandr Golovnin, the author of a university statute of 1863 that provided for university…
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…Office was given (1861) to Pyotr Valuev, who tried to paralyze the introduction of the emancipation law and formally prosecuted its faithful adherents. University troubles brought about the removal of the liberal minister of public instruction, Aleksandr Golovnin, the author of a university statute of 1863 that provided for university…
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Ukraine
Ukraine under direct imperial Russian rule
…the minister of the interior, Pyotr Valuev, banned virtually all publications in Ukrainian, with the exception of belles lettres. The ban was reinforced by a secret imperial decree, the Ems Ukaz, of Alexander II in 1876 and extended to the publication of belles lettres in Ukrainian, the importation of Ukrainian-language…
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…the minister of the interior, Pyotr Valuev, banned virtually all publications in Ukrainian, with the exception of belles lettres. The ban was reinforced by a secret imperial decree, the Ems Ukaz, of Alexander II in 1876 and extended to the publication of belles lettres in Ukrainian, the importation of Ukrainian-language…
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