31 Facts About Pavel Milyukov

Pavel Milyukov changed his view on the monarchy between 1905 and 1917.

Pavel Milyukov was expelled for taking part in student riots, went to Italy, but was readmitted and allowed to take his degree.

Pavel Milyukov specialized in the study of Russian history and in 1885 received the degree for work on the State Economics of Russia in the First Quarter of the 18th Century and the reforms of Peter the Great.

Pavel Milyukov gave private lectures with great success at a training institute for girl teachers and in 1895 was appointed to the university.

Pavel Milyukov started an association for "home university reading," and, as its first president, edited the first volume of its program, which was widely read in Russian intellectual circles.

Pavel Milyukov was imprisoned for two years in Riazan as a political agitator, but contributed as an archaeologist.

When released from jail, Pavel Milyukov went to Bulgaria, and was appointed professor in the University of Sofia, where he lectured in Bulgarian in the philosophy of history, etc.

Pavel Milyukov was sent to Macedonia, part of the Ottoman Empire.

Pavel Milyukov contributed under a pseudonym to the clandestine journal Liberation, founded by Peter Berngardovich Struve, published in Stuttgart in 1902.

The government again gave him the choice of exile for three years or jail for six months, Pavel Milyukov chose the Kresty Prison.

Pavel Milyukov was central in the founding of the Union of Unions in 1905.

Pavel Milyukov visited London and attended the Paris Conference 1904, organized by the Finnish dissident Konni Zilliacus.

Pavel Milyukov returned to Russia during the Russian Revolution of 1905, according to Orlando Figes in many ways a foretaste of the conflicts of 1917.

Pavel Milyukov founded the Constitutional Democratic party, a party of professors, academics, lawyers, writers, journalists, teachers, doctors, officials, and liberal zemstvo men.

Pavel Milyukov drafted the Vyborg Manifesto, calling for political freedom, reforms, and passive resistance to the governmental policy.

In 1907 Pavel Milyukov was elected in the Third Duma; at some time he joined the board of the party Rech.

Pavel Milyukov was one of the few publicists in Russia, who had considerable knowledge of international politics, and his articles on the Near East seem to be of considerable interest.

In January 1908 Pavel Milyukov addressed "The Civic Forum" in Carnegie Hall.

Pavel Milyukov had become a nationalist, patriotic policy of national defense, relying on social chauvinism.

Pavel Milyukov was regarded as a staunch supporter of the conquest of Constantinople.

Pavel Milyukov met professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in London, and consulted with him about the present state of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia at that time.

Pavel Milyukov highlighted numerous governmental failures, including the case Sukhomlinov, concluding that Sturmer's policies placed in jeopardy the Triple Entente.

Pavel Milyukov became a member of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma on 27 February 1917.

Pavel Milyukov wanted the monarchy retained, albeit with Alexei as Tsar and the Grand Duke Michael acting as Regent.

Pavel Milyukov staunchly opposed popular demands for peace at any cost and firmly clung to Russia's wartime alliances.

On 25 November 1917 Pavel Milyukov was elected in the Russian Constituent Assembly, the first truly free election in Russian history.

For many members of the Cadet Party, this went too far: Pavel Milyukov was forced to resign the presidency of the KDP Central Committee.

Pavel Milyukov went to Turkey and from there to Western Europe, to get support from the allies of the White movement, involved in the Russian Civil War.

In 1934, Pavel Milyukov was a witness at the Berne Trial.

Pavel Milyukov supported the Soviet Union in its war effort against Nazi Germany and refused all Nazi rapprochements.

Pavel Milyukov sincerely rejoiced at the Soviet victory in Stalingrad.