Dmitry Sergeyevich Sipyagin (Дмитрий Сергеевич Сипягин) (March 20, 1853 – April 15, (April 2. O.S.), 1902), a Russia

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n statesman.

Born in Kiev

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, Sipyagin graduated from the Judicial Department of St Petersburg University in 1876. Served in the MVD as Vice-Governor

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 of Kharkov (1886-1888), Governor of Courland

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 (1888-1891) and Governor of Moscow

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 (1891-1893). Deputy of the Minister of State Property (1893); Deputy of the Minister of Interior (1894); Executive Director on the petitions of the Imperial Chancellery (1895-1899); Director of the Ministry of Interior (1899); Minister of Interior (1900).

He was assassinated in the Mariinsky Palace

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 by Socialist-Revolutionary

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 Stepan Balmashov

Stepan Balmashov

Stepan Balmashov was the assassin of Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Dmitry Sipyagin, whom he shot on April 2, 1902 in the Mariinsky Palace in St. Petersburg. He was hanged in the fortress of Schlisselburg on May 3, 1902....

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