Okolovich, Konstantin Markovich

Orthodox. Hereditary honorary citizen . Landowner (400 acres ).

After graduating from the Minsk Theological Seminary , he held the priesthood in the town of Rakov, Minsk province.

He was elected as a deputy of the Minsk diocesan and district congresses of the clergy, a member of the board from the clergy of the Minsk Theological College. He was the lawmaker of the Rakovsky craft school and the rector of the Church of the Sign in Vilna .

Consisted of the secretary of the Vilnius diocesan missionary committee and the assistant of the Vilnius city deanery . Since June 1912 he was a Minsk diocesan missionary. In addition, he composed folk prayers, published brochures of religious, patriotic and anti-Catholic content, edited the newspaper “Brotherly Leaf”.

In 1912 he was elected a member of the State Duma from the Minsk province. He was a member of the right-wing faction, after its split in November 1916 - presumably into the group of supporters of N. E. Markov . He was a member of the commissions: on public education, on religious issues, on working issues, financial, on request and library. He spoke out against Catholic expansion in the southwestern provinces , Uniates , sectarians and "Jewish dominance."

After the February Revolution, he served in the Petrograd Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Department of General Affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs , which was closed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

Then he emigrated to Latvia , served in local Orthodox parishes.

He died in 1933. He was married, had four sons.

• 4th convocation of the State Duma: Artistic phototype. an album with portraits and biographies. - St. Petersburg: edition of N. N. Olshanskago, 1913.
• State Duma of the Russian Empire: 1906-1917. Moscow. Russian political encyclopedia. 2008.