Aleksey Nikolayevich Khvostov (1872 - 1918) was a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n statesman and politician. A nephew of Aleksandr Khvostov

Aleksandr Khvostov

Aleksandr Alekseevich Khvostov was an Imperial Russian Politician. After graduating from the Imperial Alexander Lyceum, he entered the Ministry of Justice....

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He was Vice Governor and then Governor of Nizhny Novgorod. He was elected to the Fourth Imperial State Duma as a member of one of the right wing parties.

He was and Minister of the Interior from September 26, 1915 to March 3, of 1916. He was arrested and imprisoned by the Provisional Government during the February Revolution

February Revolution

The February Revolution of 1917 was the first of two revolutions in Russia in 1917. Centered around the then capital Petrograd in March . Its immediate result was the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, the end of the Romanov dynasty, and the end of the Russian Empire...

 of 1917. In 1918, less than a year after the Bolsheviks seized power he was executed by firing squad.