P. P. Durnovo

Pyotr Pavlovich Durnovo was Moscow's Governor General during the 1905 Russian Revolution. His dacha became the site of an anarchist occupation in 1917.[3] From 1881 to July 1917 he was the vowel of the Saint Petersburg City Duma (chairman from 1904). In the provincial zemstvo meeting, he was elected a member of the City Council, chairman of the Permanent Financial Commission of the City Council of St. Petersburg.

Pyotr Pavlovich Durnovo
Pyotr Pavlovich Durnovo
Moscow's Governor[1]
In office
16 December 1872  14 September 1878
Moscow's Governor-General[2]
In office
15 July 1905  24 November 1905

Durnovo lived in a family mansion on 16 Angliyskaya Embankment, owned the Durnovo Dacha on Polyustrovskaya Embankment, as well as apartment buildings adjacent to it (No. 13-15).

From July to November 1905 he was the Moscow Governor-General and Commander of the Troops of the Moscow Military District.

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