Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev was a Russian statesman and jurist. From until he was professor of civil law at the University of Moscow. During the years to , Pobedonostsev acted as Supreme Prosecutor of the Holy Synod, a function which resembled that of minister of religious affairs, except that his behind-the-scenes influence on the czar and the government greatly surpassed his official responsibilities. Pobedonostsev fostered the idea of maintaining a regime of absolute power, with the support of the police and the Church, and strove for the Russification of all the peoples of Russia. Under his influence the Synod intensified its persecutions of the sects that had broken away from the official Church as well as other religions. In , with the partial victories of the revolutionary movement and the limitations on the czar's absolute power, Pobedonostsev resigned from his duties. His hatred of the Jews stemmed from the belief that, because the Jews were a more talented people than the Russians, it was likely that in time they would dominate the latter both materially and intellectually.
Pobedonostsev supported the anti-Jewish legislat
Konstantin Pobedonostsev - a Russian statesman, legal scholar, publicist, chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod, a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire was born in Moscow on June 2 (May 21, old style) He was a professor at Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Kiev and St. George's Universities, Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and Kazan Theological Academies, an honorary member of the Paris Academy of Sciences.
Pobedonostsev "is a phenomenon of extraordinary order. For more than a quarter of a century, his name has attracted the attention of contemporaries, it did not leave the columns of our press, some hated and cursed him, others praised him, worshiped him and blessed him; some saw him as the savior angel of Russia, others saw him as an evil genius. Nobody was indifferent to him”, - the writer and publicist Boris Glinsky characterized him in the article “Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev” posted in the “Historical Herald” (), available on the Presidential Library’s portal.
An extensive collection is dedicated to this controversial historical figure on the institution’s portal, including rare, including archival, documents — studies and articles by Konstantin Pobedonostsev, his
PHOTO: Konstantin Pobedonostsev drinking tea in the garden of the Cottage Palace, the Peterhof residence of Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, July
Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev was born in Moscow on 30th (O.S. 18th) November He remains one of the most interesting, yet controversial persons from the life and reign of Emperor Nicholas II.
Pobedonostsev was a Russian jurist, statesman, and adviser to three Tsars: Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II. Nicknamed the “Grand Inquisitor,” he came to be the symbol of Russian monarchal absolutism.
Pobedonostsev and Tsesarevich Alexander Alexandrovich [future Emperor Alexander III] remained very close for almost thirty years, through Alexander&#;s ascension as Tsar in and until his death in During the reign of Alexander III he was one of the most influential men in the Russian Empire. He was the mastermind of Emperor Alexander II&#;s Manifesto of 29th April The Manifesto on Unshakeable Autocracy proclaimed that the absolute power of the Tsar was unshakable thus putting an end to Loris-Melikov&#;s endeavours to establish a representative body in the empire.
Pobedonostsev was the chief spokesman for reactionary positi
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin Petrovich (–)
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin Petrovich (–), Russian statesman and jurist. As director general of the Holy Synod, Konstantin Pobedonostsev became a champion of tsarist autocracy, orthodoxy, and Russian nationalism.
Konstantin Pobedonostsev was born on May 21, , in Moscow. His father, Peter V. Pobedonostsev, a professor at the University of Moscow, educated Konstantin at home until he enrolled at the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence in From his father, he learned to read Old Church Slavonic, French, Latin, and German. He also studied the Bible, the writings of the Russian Orthodox Church Fathers, Greek and Roman classics, Russian history, and Russian literature. He graduated from the School of Jurisprudence with a wide knowledge of Western judicial institutions, laws, and literatures.
Pobedonostsev first won acclaim as a historian of Russian judicial institutions and as a specialist in Russian civil law. In Pobedonostsev was assigned to the eighth department of the Senate in Moscow. In he became secretary of the seventh department. In he was named lecturer in Russian civil law at Moscow University
In Pobedonostsev was appointed t
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