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See also:PLEHVE, VIATSCHESLAF KONSTANTINOVICH (1846-1904) , See also:Russian statesman, was See also:born of Lithuanian stock in 1846. He was educated at See also:Warsaw and studied See also:law at the university in St See also:Petersburg before he entered the bureaucracy in the See also:department of See also:justice, in which he See also:rose rapidly to be assistant See also:solicitor-See also:general in Warsaw, then solicitor-general in St Petersburg, and in 1881 director of the See also:state See also:police. As assistant to the See also:minister of the interior he attracted the See also:attention of See also:Alexander III, by the skill he showed in investigating the circumstances of the assassination of Alexander II. He received the See also:title of secretary of state in 1894, became a member of the See also:council of the See also:empire, and in 1902 succeeded Sipiaguine as minister of the interior. Plehve carried out the " russification " of the See also:alien provinces within the Russian Empire, and earned See also:bitter hatred in See also:Poland, in Lithuania and especially in See also:Finland. He despoiled the Armenian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, and was credited with being See also:accessory to the See also:Kishinev massacres. His logical mind and determined support of the autocratic principle gained the See also:tsar's entire confidence. He opposed commercial development on See also:ordinary See also:European lines on the ground that it involved the existence both of a dangerous See also:proletariat and of a prosperous See also:middle class equally inimical to See also:autocracy. He was thus a determined opponent of M. de See also:Witte's policy. An See also:attempt was made on his See also:life See also:early in 1904, and he was assassinated on the 28th of See also:July of the same See also:year by a See also:bomb thrown under his See also:carriage as he was on his way to See also:Peterhof to make his See also:report to the tsar; the See also:assassin, Sasonov, was a member of the fighting organization of the socialist revolutionary party.
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