Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Shakhovskoy (1861 — 1939, Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

) was Russian liberal politician.

Life

Active participant in zemstvo congresses, 1904-1905; one of the organizers of the Union of Liberation

Union of Liberation

The Union of Liberation was a liberal political group founded in St. Petersburg, Russia in January 1904. Its goal was originally the replacement of the absolutism of the Tsar with a constitutional monarchy...

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One of the founders and permanent member of the Central Committee of the Constitutional Democratic Party

Constitutional Democratic party

The Constitutional Democratic Party was a liberal political party in the Russian Empire. Party members were called Kadets, from the abbreviation K-D of the party name...

. Member and secretary of the Cadet group in the First State Duma.

In May-July 1917 he was Minister of Social Welfare in the Russian Provisional Government

Russian Provisional Government

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After the Bolshevik revolution he was active in Soviet cooperative institutions, 1930. He was arrested by the NKVD

NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....

and executed in 1939.