18 Facts About Fyodor Dubasov

Fyodor Dubasov was born into the noble family of the Dubasovy in Tver Governorate.

Fyodor Dubasov's family had long been associated with the Imperial Russian Navy: one of his ancestors, Avtonom Dubasov, had participated in the capture of a Swedish galley in 1709.

In 1870 Dubasov graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in Petersburg; the equivalent of the modern Russian Naval Academy named after Nikolai Gerasimovich Kuznetsov.

Fyodor Dubasov accompanied the future Tsar Nicholas II on his Asian Voyage.

Fyodor Dubasov was promoted to Rear-Admiral in 1893 and Vice-Admiral in 1889.

In 1905 Admiral Fyodor Dubasov was put in charge of punitive expeditions charged with crushing peasant rebellions in Chernigov, Poltava, and Kursk guberniyas.

On 6 December 1905 Fyodor Dubasov placed the garrison troops, the police, and gendarmerie on instant alert.

Fyodor Dubasov sanctioned the declaration of a state of emergency in the city and authorized mass arrests.

Fyodor Dubasov called upon the city fire brigades and armed night watchmen to assist the army.

Fyodor Dubasov sanctioned the use of artillery for the suppression of the unrest in the Presnya district.

Fyodor Dubasov turned to the citizens of Moscow with an appeal to seize armed resistance, assist the police, and hand over the rebels.

Subsequently, Fyodor Dubasov introduced a plan for the reorganization of military and civil administration of Moscow and the Moscow guberniya.

On 23 April 1906 a member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party Boris Vnorovsky-Mishchenko made an attempt on the life of Fyodor Dubasov by throwing a bomb under his carriage.

In July 1906, following the assassination attempt, Fyodor Dubasov was formally replaced as Governor General of Moscow.

Fyodor Dubasov was appointed as a member of the State Council.

Fyodor Dubasov retired to Saint Petersburg in poor health as a result of his injuries.

Fyodor Dubasov was involved in building the Church of the Saviour on the Waters in St Petersburg in memory of the Russian sailors killed in the Russo-Japanese War.

Fyodor Dubasov died in 1912, just a day before his 67th birthday and was buried in Alexander Nevsky Lavra.