Sornev, Stepan Nikolaevich

Orthodox. From the hereditary nobles of the Smolensk province. Landowner of the Roslavl district of the same province (233 tithes at the Yakimovichi estate), landowner of the city of Minsk .

In 1888 he graduated from the Law Faculty of Moscow University and began serving in the Moscow Provincial Board as a clerk .

Later he was an indispensable member of the Roslavl Uyezd for peasant affairs, and served as the Zemstvo Chief of the 1st section of the Roslavl Uyezd (1890-1902). He was elected the vowel of the Smolensk Provincial Zemstvo Assembly (1896-1898).

In 1897-1904 he repeatedly served as the Tambov Vice Governor . In December 1898 he was appointed adviser to the Tambov provincial government and held this position for seven years, being both the treasurer and director of the Tambov guardianship of orphanages. In 1905, he was elected a lifetime honorary member of the Tambov provincial guardianship of orphanages and was assigned to the E.I.

In 1905 he was appointed Mozyr county , and in 1907 - Minsk district leader of the nobility. At the end of 1916 he was elected the Minsk provincial leader of the nobility ^[1] . In addition, he was an honorary magistrate of the Minsk district, chairman of the county land surveying commission and member of the board of directors of the Minsk branch of the Society for General Assistance to War Soldiers and Their Families. He rose to the rank of State Councilor (1911).

In 1912 he was elected to the State Duma from the 1st and 2nd congresses of city voters of the Minsk province. He was a member of the faction of Russian nationalists and the moderate right (FNUP), after its split in August 1915 - in the group of supporters of P. N. Balashov . He was a member of the commissions: on request, on trade and industry, on urban affairs, land and financial.

In World War I, he was a member of the Committee of Advanced Sanitary Nutrition Squads of the All-Russian National Union .

In the days of the February Revolution he was on vacation in Minsk, then he lived on the estate of Yakimovichi. In July 1917 he informed Petrograd that the Yakimovichi volost executive committee had called on the peasants to seize land and equipment from the landowners, and the local authorities did not prevent this. In October 1917, the volost executive committee allowed local peasants to cut the forest belonging to Sornev.

In exile in Yugoslavia. He died in 1933 in Nis . He was married to Lydia Nikolaevna Shustova, had two daughters.

• Order of St. Anne , 3rd art. (1897);
• Order of St. Stanislav , 2nd art. (1901);
• Order of St. Anne, 2nd art. (1905);
• Order of St. Vladimir 4th art. (1907);
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd art. (1916).

• Medal “In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III”
• Medal "For works on the first general census"
• Red Cross Medal "In Memory of the Russo-Japanese War"
• Insignia "for land management"
• Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of the reign of the Romanov dynasty”

• List of civil ranks of the fourth class for 1915. - Pg., 1915. - S. 1482
• 4th convocation of the State Duma: Artistic phototype. an album with portraits and biographies. - St. Petersburg: edition of N. N. Olshansko, 1913.
• State Duma of the Russian Empire: 1906-1917. - M.: ROSSPEN, 2008.
• Unforgettable graves. Russian Abroad: Obituaries 1917-1997 in 6 volumes. - Volume 6. Book 2. - M .: "Pashkov House", 1999. - S. 119.