Aleksandr Konovalov (politician, born 1875)

This article is about a politician of Imperial Russia. For a modern Russian politician with this name, see Aleksandr Konovalov (politician, born 1968).

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Ivanovich and the family name is Konovalov.

Aleksandr Konovalov.

Aleksandr Ivanovich Konovalov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Конова́лов) (17 September 1875, Moscow – 28 January 1949, Paris, France; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery) was a Russian Kadet politician and entrepreneur. One of Russia's biggest textile manufacturers, he became a leader of the liberal, business-oriented Progressist Party and was a member of the Progressive Bloc in the Fourth Duma.

Biography

During World War I he was vice president of Alexander Guchkov's Military-Industrial Committee, and after the February Revolution he became Minister of Trade and Industry in the Provisional Government. He was an active member of the irregular freemasonic lodge, the Grand Orient of Russia’s Peoples. After the October Revolution he emigrated to France, where he was a leader of leftist Russian émigrés; at the start of World War II he moved to the United States.

External links

• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Biographies with pictures (Russian)
• Michael T. Florinsky (ed.), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961), p. 284.