Alexey Sergeyevich Yermolov was a Russia

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Yermolov was born in 1847 (by some other sources in 1846), in 1866 graduated from the Imperial Lyceum, in 1871 received the Kandidat

Kandidat

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 of agricultural sciences degree from the Petersburg Agricultural Institute . Worked as a senior editor of the statistical department and member of the Research Council of the Imperial Ministry for Agriculture. He was the leader of the expedition to study sheep husbandry

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 in the Empire. In 1883-1892 he served as the head of the Indirect tax

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ation department of the Ministry for Economics. In 1892 he became the Deputy to Ministry for Finance. In 1893 became Minister of Agriculture and State Properties of Russian Empire

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 and served until 1905. Since 1905 he was a member of State Council of Imperial Russia

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He was an active member of the Free Economics Society (Вольное Экономическое Общество) and published a lot of scientific articles in the Works of the Society. In 1878 he represented the society at the World Fair

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 in Paris

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. In 1886-1888 he served as the Vice-President of the Society. In 1899 Yermolov was elected a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Yermolov together with Sergei Witte

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 were targets of the sharp criticism by Vladimir Lenin

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 in his work What the “Friends of the People” Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats. According to Lenin Yermolov voiced the interests of the feudal landlords and his policy was one of retaining the relics of serfdom

Serfdom

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Some works

• «Новые исследования фосфоритов» (1867);
• «О добывании, переработке и употреблении кругляков ископаемой фосфорнокислой извести во Франции» (1870);
• «Фосфориты под Москвой и в Московской губернии» (1870);
• «Очерки побитюжья» (1871);
• «Высшее сельскохозяйственное образование в его отношениях к сельскому делу в России» (1872);
• «Организация теоретических и практических испытаний для решения вопроса об удобрении почв» (1872);
• «Recherches sur les gisements de phosphate de chaux fossile en Russie» (1873);
• «Сельскохозяйственное дело Европы и Америки на Венской всемирной выставке 1873 г. и в эпоху её» (1875);
• «Винокурение из стеблей кукурузы» (1878);
• «Из заграничной поездки» (1878);
• «Notice sur les céréales de la Russie» (1878);
• «Mémoire sur la production agricole de la Russie» (1878);
• «Организация полевого хозяйства» (2-е изд., 1891);
• «Сельскохозяйственно-статистическая литература на всемирной выставке в Париже 1878 г.» (1879);
• «Неурожай и народное бедствие» (1892).
• Под редакцией Ермолов напечатан перевод сочинения Ж. Билля: «Химические удобрения» (1872).
• С 1890 г. помещалась им в журнале «Русское Обозрение» сельскохозяйственная хроника; первая серия этих этюдов издана особо, под заглавием: «Современные сельскохозяйственные вопросы» (1891).