Ivan Shcheglovitov

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Ivan Shcheglovitov

| native_name = {{nobold|Иван Григорьевич Щегловитов}}

| native_name_lang = ru

| image = Scheglovitov IG (cropped).jpg

| imagesize =

| caption =

| birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|25 February|1861|13 February}}

| birth_place = Vaulets, Starodubsky Uyezd, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1918|9|5|1861|2|13|df=y}}

| death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union

| death_cause =

| office = Chairman of the State Council

| term_start = 1 Jannuary 1917

| term_end = 1 March 1917

| predecessor = Anatoly Kulomzin

| successor = Position abolished

| office1 = Minister of Justice

| predecessor1 = Mikhail Akimov

| successor1 = Aleksandr Khvostov

| term_start1 = 24 April 1906

| term_end1 = 6 July 1915

| party = Russian Assembly

}}

Ivan Grigoryevich Shcheglovitov ({{langx|ru|Иван Григорьевич Щегловитов}}; {{OldStyleDate|25 February|1861|13 February}} – 5 September 1918) was a right-wing politician who served as the Russian minister of Justice and the last chairman of the State Council of the Russian Empire.

Life

Graduate of the Imperial School of Law. Held various posts in the Senate and the Ministry of Justice between 1890 and 1905; Assistant Minister of Justice (1906), Minister of Justice (1906-1915), Member of the State Council (1907), and Chairman of the State Council (January 1917). Shcheglovitov was one of the main instigators of a notorious Blood libel case against Menachem Beilis in 1913.{{Cite web|url=http://bibliotekar.ru/rasputin/28.htm|title = Современники о Григории Распутине. Распутин ненавидел Щегловитова и нападал на него}}

After the February Revolution he was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks in the Peter and Paul Fortress; later transferred to Moscow and executed by the Bolsheviks during the period of Red Terror.

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References

Sources

V.I. Gurko. [https://archive.org/details/featuresandfigur011843mbp Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.]
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{{succession box | before=Mikhail Akimov

| title=Minister of Justice

| years=24 April 1906 – 6 July 1915

| after=Aleksandr Khvostov}}

{{succession box | before=Anatoly Kulomzin

| title=Chairman of the State Council

| years=1 January – 1 March 1917

| after=position abolished}}

Category:1861 births

Category:1918 deaths

Category:Antisemitism in the Russian Empire

Category:Imperial School of Jurisprudence alumni