Prince Pyotr Dmitrievich Dolgorukov (1866, Tsarskoye Selo

Tsarskoye Selo

Tsarskoye Selo is the town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the center of St. Petersburg. It is now part of the town of Pushkin and of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.-History:In...

 - 1951, Vladimir

Vladimir

Vladimir is a city and the administrative center of Vladimir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, to the east of Moscow along the M7 motorway. Population:...

) was Russian liberal politician.

Life

Graduate of Moscow University. Well-known zemstvo

Zemstvo

Zemstvo was a form of local government that was instituted during the great liberal reforms performed in Imperial Russia by Alexander II of Russia. The idea of the zemstvo was elaborated by Nikolay Milyutin, and the first zemstvo laws were put into effect in 1864...

 man and for many years chairman of Sudzha

Sudzha

Sudzha is a town in Kursk Oblast, Russia, located on the Sudzha and Olyoshnya Rivers southwest of Kursk. Population: Sudzha was founded in the 17th century as a part of the system of fortifications defending the southern approaches to Moscow. It was granted town status in 1664....

 Zemstvo Board. For his radical pronouncements at the sessions of Sudzha Uezd Committee to Study the Needs of Agricultural Industry, he was removed from his post by Plehve

Vyacheslav von Plehve

Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve , also Pléhve, or Pleve was the director of Imperial Russia's police and later Minister of the Interior.- Biography :...

 but reinstated under Sviatopolk-Mirsky

Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii

Prince Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii was a Russian politician and police official, Minister of the Interior in 1904–1905. He was the son of the general Dmitry Ivanovitch Sviatopolk-Mirskii and father of the literary historian D. S. Mirsky....

.

He was one of the founders of the Union of Liberation

Union of Liberation

The Union of Liberation was a liberal political group founded in St. Petersburg, Russia in January 1904. Its goal was originally the replacement of the absolutism of the Tsar with a constitutional monarchy...

 and of the publication Osvobozhdenie; participated in zemstvo congresses, 1904-1905. One of the founders of the Constitutional Democratic Party

Constitutional Democratic party

The Constitutional Democratic Party was a liberal political party in the Russian Empire. Party members were called Kadets, from the abbreviation K-D of the party name...

, member and vice-chairman of the First State Duma

State Duma of the Russian Empire

The State Duma of the Russian Empire was a legislative assembly in the late Russian Empire, which met in the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg. It was convened four times between 1906 and the collapse of the Empire in 1917.-History:...

, 1906. He was convicted by the court and imprisoned for three months for signing the Vyborg Appeal.

In 1909 he was reelected chairman of Sudzha Uezd Zemstvo Board.

After the 1917 revolution he emigrated from Russia and lived in Prague

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...

, leading Russian emigre organizations in Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

. His twin brother Pavel Dolgorukov

Pavel Dolgorukov

Prince Pavel Dimitrievich Dolgorukov was a Russian landowner and aristocrat who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1927....

 was executed by bolsheviks in 1927.

He was arrested by SMERSH

SMERSH

SMERSH was the counter-intelligence agency in the Red Army formed in late 1942 or even earlier, but officially founded on April 14, 1943. The name SMERSH was coined by Joseph Stalin...

in 1945 and spent last years of his life in Soviet prisons. He died in 1951.