Fedorov, Mikhail Pavlovich

Born on February 6, 1845 in Kursk . In 1863 he graduated from the Voronezh Cadet Corps , for seven years he served as an officer in the army. Then he graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow University with a degree of candidate rights.

He was engaged in journalism. During the Serbian-Turkish war of 1876-1877, he was a war correspondent for the newspaper " Russian Vedomosti ", during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, he was a correspondent for the magazine " World Illustration ", also wrote notes and articles in Illustrated London News .

He was engaged in economic research, inter alia, the research of the grain trade. He was a member of the board and founder of the Semirechensk Railway Society , director of the board of the Ryazan-Ural Railway and president of the general congress of representatives of Russian railways. He was a representative of the railways in the Tariff Council, and was a member of the Supreme Committee for the Survey of Railways of Russia. In addition, he was a member of the board of the Russian Commercial and Industrial Bank and chairman of the St. Petersburg Port Grain Lifting and Warehouse Society and the commercial and industrial branch of the Society of Oriental Studies. He became the founder and chairman of the Society for Financial Reforms.

In 1904 he was elected vowel of the St. Petersburg City Council . In 1905 he was a member of the delegation of Zemstvo and city leaders to Nicholas II . After the proclamation of the October manifesto, he joined the Cadet Party and was its treasurer.

In February 1907 he was elected a member of the Second State Duma from the city of St. Petersburg. He was a member of the constitutional democratic fraction. He was a speaker and chairman of the budget commission, as well as a member of the financial commission.

In 1909-1918 he was the editor of the magazine "Urban Affairs", published by L. A. Velikhov ^[1] . He was a member of one of the VVNR lodges.

During the First World War, he was a member of the Petrograd Committee of the All-Russian Union of Cities , a member of the City Committee for the collection and distribution of donations for the needs caused by wartime. He was a member of the Society of Slavic Reciprocity, was a member of the "Progressive Circle".

In 1916, he was a representative of private railways in the Railway Council of the Ministry of Railways .

After the revolution, he remained in Russia. He died in 1925 in Leningrad. He was buried on the Literary bridges of the Volkovsky cemetery ^[2] .

• Bread competition between Russia and America. - SPb. , 1883;
• On the warehouses of elevators in connection with the reform of the grain trade. - St. Petersburg, 1885;
• International bread trade in 1885: report of the Statistical Office of the Moscow Law Society. - SPb., 1886;
• International bread trade in 1886: report of the Statistical Office of the Moscow Law Society. - SPb., 1887;
• Bread trade in the major Russian ports and in Koenigsberg. - St. Petersburg, 1888;
• Overview of the international bread trade. - M. , 1889;
• Cotton growing in Central Asia; Rivalry of trade interests in the East . - St. Petersburg, 1903;
• The financial and economic program of the city of St. Petersburg. 1905 year. - SPb., 1905;
• The real foundations of modern international politics: Report in the Society of Oriental Studies. - St. Petersburg, 1909;
• Responsibility of the Russian railways in numbers . - SPb., 1911;
• China Finance: Report to the Financial Reform Society. - SPb., 1912;
• The economic situation of the Siberian Railway. - SPb., 1912;
• The high cost of life. - SPb., 1913;
• Economic interests implicated in the great European war (Necessary information). - SPb., 1913;
• Finance of the city of St. Petersburg: Report of the St. Petersburg City Council. - SPb., 1914;
• Food of Petrograd during the war. - Pg. , 1915;
• The war and the high cost of life in 1916. - PG., 1916;
• War and finance of the city of Petrograd in 1916. - PG., 1916;
• Cotton growing and irrigation of new lands in Turkestan. - Pg., 1917;
• Global market and transportation of essential food products. - PG., 1923.

• Fedorov, Mikhail Pavlovich (publicist) // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• FEDOROV Mikhail Pavlovich // State Duma of the Russian Empire: 1906-1917. - M.: Russian Political Encyclopedia, 2008.