Statesman.
Russian Prime Minister during World War I. He was a reactionary monarchist and a conservative old man, whose ineffectiveness helped monarchy to crumble in Russia.
Background
Lived: 1839-1917.
Ivan Longinovich Goremykin was a lawyer and a bureaucrat. He worked as a public servant all of his life.
Career
From 1895-99 Goremykin served as a Minister of the Interior. As an ardent supporter of autocracy, he was hated by democrats and revolutionaries alike. He believed that tsar Nicholas II was the anointed ruler by God’s grace. His plan to extend the zemstvo system was turned down and he had to resign.
Prime Minister
After Sergey Witte’s groundbreaking reforms of 1905, that Nicholas only reluctantly signed, he fired Witte and appointed Goremykin Prime Minister in May 1906.
Goremykin’s conservatism clashed violently with the First Duma and he was taken down in just three months. The younger and more progressive Pyotr Stolypin took his place.
Nicholas II once again invited Goremykin to be Prime Minister in 1914. The old man was already 74 and waiting to retire. His conservative policy and tendency to support Rasputin cost him his post in 1916.
Fall from power
Goremykin was arrested during the February Revolution, but set free again by Kerensky. He was murdered by a street mob after the October Revolution in 1917.
Ivan Goremykin
Statesman.
Russian Prime Minister during World War I. He was a reactionary monarchist and a conservative old man, whose ineffectiveness helped monarchy to crumble in Russia.
Background
Lived: 1839-1917.
Ivan Longinovich Goremykin was a lawyer and a bureaucrat. He worked as a public servant all of his life.
Career
From 1895-99 Goremykin served as a Minister of the Interior. As an ardent supporter of autocracy, he was hated by democrats and revolutionaries alike. He believed that tsar Nicholas II was the anointed ruler by God’s grace. His plan to extend the zemstvo system was turned down and he had to resign.
Prime Minister
After Sergey Witte’s groundbreaking reforms of 1905, that Nicholas only reluctantly signed, he fired Witte and appointed Goremykin Prime Minister in May 1906.
Goremykin’s conservatism clashed violently with the First Duma and he was taken down in just three months. The younger and more progressive Pyotr Stolypin took his place.
Nicholas II once again invited Goremykin to be Prime Minister in 1914. The old man was already 74 and waiting to retire. His conservative policy and tendency to support Rasputin cost him his post in 1916.
Fall from power
Goremykin was arrested during the February Revolution, but set free again by Kerensky. He was murdered by a street mob after the October Revolution in 1917.
Russian Revolution