Mikhail Stakhovich
Template:Short description Template:Infobox officeholder Mikhail Aleksandrovich Stakhovich (Template:Langx; 20 January 1861, in Oryol Governorate<ref>Липецкая энциклопедия / сост. В. В. Шахов, Б. М. Шальнев. — Липецк: Липецкое издательство; Рязань: Гэлион, 2001. — Т. 3. — С. 288-289. — Template:ISBN.</ref> – 23 September 1923, in Aix-en-Provence) was a Russian politician.
Stakhovich was elected to the Duma in 1906 as an Octobrist and again to the second Duma in 1907, leading the Party of Peaceful Renovation.
He was appointed Governor-General of Finland by the Russian Provisional Government on 20 March 1917 after the job was refused by Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov amongst others. He resigned on 17 September.
After the Governor-General's post, Stakhovich was pointed as Ambassador to Madrid but before he could reach Madrid the October Revolution took place.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Stakhovich died in exile in Aix-en-Provence, France in 1923.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was buried in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery, in the southern suburbs of Paris.
Awards
- Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Order of St. Vladimir, 3rd class
References
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- 1861 births
- 1923 deaths
- People from Stanovlyansky District
- People from Yeletsky Uyezd
- Octobrists
- Party of Peaceful Renovation politicians
- Members of the 1st State Duma of the Russian Empire
- Members of the 2nd State Duma of the Russian Empire
- Members of the State Duma of the Russian Empire from Oryol Governorate
- Governors of the Grand Duchy of Finland
- Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to Spain
- Imperial School of Jurisprudence alumni
- White Russian emigrants to France