Ivan Shipov
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Ivan Pavlovich Shipov (1865–1919) was an Imperial Russian Politician
Politician
A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

. After graduating from the Imperial Alexander Lyceum, he entered the Ministry of Finance. He rose to the position of Assistant Director of the Special Credit Office, and eventually Director of the General Office (Ministrial Chancellery).

In addition he served on the Board of the State Bank from 1902-1905. In 1905, he was appointed Minister of Finance during the Witte government
Sergei Witte
Count Sergei Yulyevich Witte , also known as Sergius Witte, was a highly influential policy-maker who presided over extensive industrialization within the Russian Empire. He served under the last two emperors of Russia...

. In 1906, he left that position when Witte resigned in part due to his long association with Witte. The circumstances of his death are uncertain but seem to coincide with many political arrests
Political prisoner
According to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, a political prisoner is ‘someone who is in prison because they have opposed or criticized the government of their own country’....

 and executions
Capital punishment
Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for an offence. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences. The term capital originates from the Latin capitalis, literally...

 by the Bolshevik
Bolshevik
The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

s in 1919.
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