Alexander Ivanovich Konovalov

This article is about a politician of Imperial Russia. For a modern Russian politician with this name, see Alexander Vladimirovich Konovalov.

Alexander Konovalov.

Alexander Ivanovich Konovalov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Конова́лов) (September 17, 1875, Moscow - January 28, 1949, Paris, France; Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Cemetery) was a Russian Kadet politician and entrepreneur. One of Russia's biggest textile manufacturers, he became a leader of the liberal, business-oriented Progressist Party and was a member of the Progressive Bloc in the Fourth Duma. During World War I he was vice president of Alexander Guchkov's Military-Industrial Committee, and after the February Revolution he became Minister of Trade and Industry in the Provisional Government. After the October Revolution he emigrated to France, where he was a leader of leftist Russian émigrés; at the start of World War II he moved to the United States.

References

Michael T. Florinsky (ed.), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961), p. 284

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