#stolypin

[ohsoromanov]

The Russian Imperial Family hosting an official breakfast on board the Standart in July of 1910. Riga. Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin can be seen sitting to the right of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.

[the-last-tsar]

Nicholas II, Stolypin and the Jewish delegation during the Tsar's visit to Kiev in 1911.

(source: Wikipedia)

[mashkaromanova]

Olga Nikolaevna and Tatiana Nikolaevna, September 1911

“Yesterday there was that terribly assassination attempt on Stolypin at the theatre. [...] N.[icholas], O.[lga] and T.[atiana] were in the foyer when it happened; Tatiana came home very tearful and is still a little shaken whereas Olga put on a brave face throughout.”

- Alexandra Feodorovna, 2nd/15th September 1911

“On the evening of the 1st the filthy assassination of Stolypin took place. Olga and Tatiana were with me, and we had just left our box during the second interval, as it was very hot in the theatre. At that moment we heard two noises, like the sound of an object falling, and, thinking that a pair of binoculars must have fallen on someone’s head from above, I ran back into the box. [...] Olga and Tatiana had followed me back into the box and saw everything that happened. [...] It made a great impression on Tatiana, who cried a lot, and they both slept badly.”

- Nicholas II to Maria Feodorovna, 10th/23rd September

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[theotmanite]

Visit with the Kaiser, June 1909.

[ohsoromanov]

Pyotr Stolypin talks to the German Emperor Wilhelm II during breakfast on board of the frigate Standart on June 4, 1909.

[ohsoromanov]

Pyotr Stolypin and Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Izvolsky greeting the Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dowager Empress of Russia on May 27, 1908.

[ohsoromanov]

Pyotr Stolypin in the Winter Palace in 1908.

Stolypin served as Nicholas II's Chairman of the Council of Ministers—the Prime Minister of Russia—from 1906 to 1911. His tenure was marked by efforts to repress revolutionary groups, as well as for the institution of noteworthy agrarian reforms. Stolypin hoped, through his reforms, to stem peasant unrest by creating a class of market-oriented smallholding landowners. He is often cited as one of the last major statesmen of Imperial Russia with a clearly defined political program and determination to undertake major reforms. After his assassination in 1911, the country muddled through the next several years until the outbreak of World War I, which would ultimately strike the death knell for the autocratic regime of Tsar Nicholas. The failure to implement meaningful reform and bring Russia into the modern political and economic system combined with the pressures of the regime's failures in the war gave rise to the Russian Revolution of 1917. [x]