Ivan Grigorevich Shcheglovitov (1861-1918) was Russian minister of Justice

Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire

Ministry of Justice — one of the Russian Empire's central public institutions.Established on 8 September 1802. The Ministry was headed by the Minister - Structure :...

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Life

Graduate of the Imperial School of Law. Held various posts in the Senate and the Ministry of Justice between 1890 and 1905; Assistant Minister of Justice (1906), Minister of Justice (1906-1915).Member of the State Council (1907). Chairman of the State Council (1916). Shcheglovitov was one of the main istigators of a notorious Blood libel

Blood libel

Blood libel is a false accusation or claim that religious minorities, usually Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays...

 case against Menachem Beilis in 1913.

After the February Revolution

February Revolution

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 he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress

Peter and Paul Fortress

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; later transferred to Moscow

Moscow

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 and executed by the Bolsheviks during the period of Red Terror

Red Terror

The Red Terror in Soviet Russia was the campaign of mass arrests and executions conducted by the Bolshevik government. In Soviet historiography, the Red Terror is described as having been officially announced on September 2, 1918 by Yakov Sverdlov and ended about October 1918...

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