Vladimir Alexandrovich Cherkassky (Russian: Владимир Александрович Черкасский; 13 April 1821 – 3 March 1878) was a slavophil Russian politician[2] and first head of the provisional Russian Administration in Bulgaria.
Vladimir Cherkassky | |
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| Moscow's Gorodskoy Golova (Московский городской голова)[1] | |
| In office 1869–1871 | |
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| Born | 13 April 1821 Tula Province, Russian Empire |
| Died | 3 March 1878 (aged 56) San Stefano, Ottoman Empire |
Biography
editBorn into a princely family, Cherkassky studied law at Moscow State University. He supported the Emancipation reform of 1861 which abolished serfdom in Russia.
References
edit- ^ "ЧЕРКАССКИЙ • Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия".
- ^ Peter K. Christoff (14 July 2014). K.S. Aksakov, A Study in Ideas, Vol. III: An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Russian Slavophilism. Princeton University Press. p. 322. ISBN 978-1-4008-5350-2.
External links
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Media related to Vladimir Alexandrovich Cherkasskiy at Wikimedia Commons- Vladimir Cherkassky in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary at wikisource.org
