Alexey Kharuzin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexey Kharuzin

Russian politician

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1864

Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonia

Date of Death: 08-May-1932

Profession: politician, anthropologist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Alexey Kharuzin

  • Alexey Nikolayevich Kharuzin (Russian: ??????´? ??????´???? ????´???; March 12, 1864, Reval – May 8, 1932, Moscow) was a Russian ethnographer, anthropologist, and statesman. Kharuzin was born in Reval (present-day Tallinn, Estonia) to a Russian merchant family.
  • Between 1873 and 1883, he attended the Reval Gymnasium.
  • He later graduated from the Moscow State University Faculty of Physics and Mathematics.
  • The Imperial Natural Science Lovers Society (INSLS) sent him on numerous missions to the South Caucasus, Crimea and the Aegean Sea, and Central Asia.
  • In 1889, he became a Russian Geographical Society envoy to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • Between 1889 and 1891, Kharuzin was an editor of the INSLS Department of Anthropology Journal.In 1891, Kharuzin was appointed a special assistant to the governor of Estonia and later as a secretary for the former peasant committee, the provincial statistics committee, the provincial body for peasant affairs.
  • In 1902, he was appointed head of the Vilno Governor General's office.Between 1904 and 1906, Kharuzin served as a governor of Bessarabia and later as the director of the Department for Religious Affairs of Foreign Faiths.
  • In 1911, he became Russia's Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs.Unlike many high-ranking Russian statesmen, Kharuzin did not choose to immigrate after the October Revolution of 1917.
  • He worked at the Shatilov agricultural base which he helped establish near Tver.
  • In 1924, he returned to Moscow where he was hired as a gardening teacher at the Agricultural Polytechnicum.In 1927, Kharuzin was arrested by the State Political Directorate, only to be released soon without any charges.
  • In 1931, he was arrested for the second time together with his son Vsevolod for allegedly "spreading Anti-Soviet propaganda." On April 3, 1932, the Special Council of the NKVD found him guilty of the charge and sentenced him to three years in exile.
  • A month later, Kharuzin died in the Butyrka prison from heart failure.

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