22 Facts About Pavel Malyantovich

Pavel Nikolayevich Malyantovich was a Russian politician and lawyer.

Pavel Malyantovich was arrested during the Great Purge and later executed.

Pavel Malyantovich was born in the family of a private nobleman.

Pavel Malyantovich had three sons: Nikolay, who lived in emigration, Vladimir, and George, who was shot in the late 1930s.

Pavel Malyantovich's grandson Kirill Georgievich was a veteran of World War II and a famous Soviet animator who directs cartoons about Dunno and other subjects.

Pavel Malyantovich graduated from high school in Smolensk, then studied at the law faculty of Moscow University.

Pavel Malyantovich participated in the opposition movement there, and was brought in for questioning concerning the distribution of the revolutionary magazine "Self-Government" in 1889.

Pavel Malyantovich moved to the Faculty of Law of University of Yuryev, where he graduated in 1893.

Pavel Malyantovich began practicing law in 1893, acting as an Attorney at Law of the Moscow Court of Justice District in 1898.

Pavel Malyantovich participated in many political trials, defending the workers of the Morozovskaya factory in 1899 and winning the acquittal of 37 defendants out of 90 against the prosecution's claims that all members of a group were responsible for the actions of the others.

Pavel Malyantovich defended demonstrators in Sormovo and Nizhny Novgorod in 1902; among his clients were working Pavel Zalomov, who became the prototype of Pavel Vlasov, the hero of Maxim Gorky's story "Mother".

Pavel Malyantovich defended participants in the unrest at Tikhoretskaya station.

Pavel Malyantovich was a defender of the peasants of the Kharkov and Poltava Governorates Provinces who were accused of unrest, and the workers of Gus-Khrustalny.

Pavel Malyantovich went on to act as a lawyer not only for workers, but for other revolutionaries.

Pavel Malyantovich actively sympathized with his clients, making radical speeches at lawyers' meetings.

Pavel Malyantovich participated in the social democratic movement, hesitated between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, and was constantly under police surveillance.

Pavel Malyantovich won the civil action brought by the heirs of Savva Morozov, who challenged his will which bequeathed 100 thousand rubles to Maria Andreyeva for transfer to the Bolshevik party.

In September 1917, at the suggestion of Alexander Kerensky, Pavel Malyantovich became Minister of Justice of the Provisional Government.

Pavel Malyantovich was conciliatory towards the Bolsheviks, perceiving them as colleagues in the revolutionary movement.

Pavel Malyantovich joined the Moscow Board of Defenders, which he headed for some time, and was a member of the first staff of the Presidium of the All-Russian Lawyers Association.

Pavel Malyantovich participated in the activities of the Political Prisoners Assistance Committee, the Political Red Cross.

The film was shot in 1937, and in November of the same year Pavel Malyantovich was arrested and later executed.