20 Facts About Alexander Trepov

1.

Alexander Fyodorovich Trepov was the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire from 23 November 1916 until 9 January 1917.

2.

Alexander Trepov was conservative, a monarchist, a member of the Russian Assembly, and an advocate of moderate reforms opposed to the influence of Grigori Rasputin.

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Alexander Trepov worked in the Ministry of the Interior, was elected Marshal of Nobility of Pereiaslavl Uezd, and assistant State Secretary.

4.

Alexander Trepov was appointed as a member of the special commission to draft a plan for a State Duma, according to the rescript of February 18,1905, and the Manifesto of October 17.

5.

On 1 January 1916 Alexander Trepov became minister of Transport under Goremykin, who was succeeded shortly after by Boris Sturmer.

6.

Alexander Trepov had secretly designed a plan of railway construction and introduced it in Government.

7.

Alexander Trepov quickly established himself in office and showed that his ambition went further.

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On 10 November 1916 the bellicose Alexander Trepov was appointed new Prime Minister, promising to promote a parliamentary system, but keeping his position of Transport Minister.

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Alexander Trepov's declaration contained promises to urgently reform the municipal government, to enter the rural municipality district council and to remove national and religious restrictions to education.

10.

Alexander Trepov was supposed to achieve the resignation of four of the most unpopular ministers.

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Alexander Trepov had made the dismissal of Protopopov an indispensable condition of his accepting the presidency of the Council, Protopopov being a 'protege of Rasputin'.

12.

Alexander Trepov threatened to resign on the next day.

13.

Alexander Trepov having failed to eliminate Protopopov tried to bribe Rasputin.

14.

Mosolov, his brother-in-law, Alexander Trepov offered a substantial amount of money, a bodyguard and a house to Rasputin, when he would leave politics.

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Alexander Trepov had offered Rasputin 200,000 roubles in cash to return to Siberia and never again involve himself in politics.

16.

Alexander Trepov hated Trepov and Makarov; the Tsarina even wanted Trepov hanged.

17.

Alexander Trepov collaborated with Count Paul von Benckendorff to protect the Imperial family.

18.

Alexander Trepov became president of the "Union des Organisations monarchiques russes".

19.

In 1921 he and his brother-in-law Alexander Trepov Mosolov participated in the "Congres monarchiste russe", organized in Bad Reichenhall.

20.

Alexander Trepov was buried at the Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice.