Ivan Shcheglovitov

Ivan Shcheglovitov.

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

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), and Chairman of the State Council (1916). Shcheglovitov was one of the main instigators of a notorious Blood libel case against Menachem Beilis in 1913.^[1]

After the February Revolution he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress; later transferred to Moscow and executed by the Bolsheviks during the period of Red Terror.

References

↑ http://bibliotekar.ru/rasputin/28.htm

V.I. Gurko. Features And Figures Of The Past. Government And Opinion In The Reign Of Nicholas II.

Preceded by Mikhail Akimov	Minister of Justice 1906-1915	Succeeded by Aleksandr Khvostov

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