1. Pyotr Vasilievich Vologodsky was a Russian statesman, public figure, and mason.
11 Facts About Pyotr Vologodsky
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Pyotr Vologodsky was the first chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian state and the second and last chairman of the Provisional Siberian government.
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Pyotr Vologodsky was expelled for "disreputable behaviour" in 1887 and sent to Tomsk.
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Pyotr Vologodsky took part in the creation of the Socialist Revolutionary Organization in Tomsk.
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Pyotr Vologodsky was a devoted activist throughout the regional movement.
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Pyotr Vologodsky was elected as a deputy to the Second State Duma from the Tomsk province according to the list of progressives but did not participate in its work, because the emperor managed to dissolve the Duma before Vologodsky arrived in the capital.
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Pyotr Vologodsky was the editor of the "Siberian Life" newspaper.
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In March 1917, Pyotr Vologodsky became one of three members of the provincial commissariat for the management of the Tomsk province, created after the removal from the office of Governor Vladimir Dubinsky.
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On 30 June 1918, after the Revolt of the Czechoslovak Legion, Pyotr Vologodsky headed the Provisional Siberian Government.
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Pyotr Vologodsky resigned on November 18,1918, after Admiral Kolchak came to power, but at the insistence of the right-wing public, he took the post of chairman of the Council of Ministers.
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Five years later, Pyotr Vologodsky died on November 19,1925, in the city of Harbin.