biography
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Speransky, Mikhail Mikhaylovich, Graf (Count)
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pronunciation:
[speranskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1772–1839)
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| biography:
| Russian statesman and reformer, born in Cherkutino, Russia. Destined to be a clergyman, he was given the surname Speransky (‘hope’) by an uncle, and became secretary to Prince Kurakin (1795), then adviser to Tsar Alexander I (1807). In 1809 he produced a plan for the reorganization of the Russian structure of government on the Napoleonic model, but was dismissed when Napoleon invaded Russia (1812). Under Nicholas I he was restored to power, and was responsible for the trial and conviction of the Decembrist conspirators of 1825. He also prepared the Complete Collection of the Laws of the Russian Empire (44 vols, 1830). |
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