IN MEMORY PYOTR ARKADYEVICH STOLYPIN
ПАМЯТИ ПЁТР АРКА́ДЬЕВИЧ СТОЛЫ́ПИН!
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September 18, 1911 died Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin in Kiev, after have been shot by a revolutionary.
Peter Stolypin, born in Baden-Baden on 14 April (OS 2 April) 1862. ). His father, was a general in the Russian artillery, a governor of Rumelia and Commandant of the Kremlin Palace. His mother Natalia Mikhailovna Stolypina (1827–89), daughter of Prince Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov, the Commanding General of the Russian infantry during the Crimean War and later the Governor General of Warsaw.
In 1884 Stolypin married Olga Borisovna Neidhardt, the daughter of a prominent Russian family and they had five daughters and a son.
In May 1902 Stolypin was appointed governor in Grodno, where he was the youngest person ever appointed to this position. In February 1903 he became governor of Saratov. His successes as provincial governor led to Stolypin being appointed interior minister under Ivan Goremykin in April 1906.
Peter Stolypin became the chairman of the Council of Ministers, served as Prime Minister, and Minister of Internal Affairs from 1906 to 1911 - during the period of Emperor Nicholas II. His tenure was marked by efforts to counter revolutionary groups and by the implementation of agrarian reforms.
Stolypin was a monarchist and hoped to strengthen the throne. He is considered one of the last major statesmen of Imperial Russia with clearly defined public policies and the determination to undertake major reforms.
On 14 September 1911, during a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House - in the presence of Emperor Nicholas II and his two oldest daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana - Stolypin was shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest by a leftist revolutionary. The next day, the distressed Emperor knelt at Stolypin's hospital bedside and kept repeating the words "Forgive me". Stolypin died three days later, 18 September.
"I want to be buried where I am killed" had Stolypin declared. On September 22 he was laid to rest in Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. After the funeral service the coffin was carried outside the church and lowered next to the historic tomb of another Russian patriot Kochubey.
Immediately after the death of Stolypin, was raised the idea of setting a monument to him in Kyiv. Donations flowed so abundantly that in three days in Kiev was collected the amount that would cover the cost of the monument. its execution was entrusted to the Italian sculptor Ximenez, a former Kievan. In 1912, exactly a year after the death of Stolypin, the monument was unveiled in a solemn ceremony. Stolypin was depicted as if speaking to the Duma, and on the stone is his prophetic words: "You need great upheaval - we need a great Russia."
