Drutskoy-Sokolinsky, Nikolai Nikolaevich

Orthodox. From the hereditary nobles of the Smolensk province. The son of Prince Nikolai Grigoryevich Drutsky-Sokolinsky (1821–1884) and Amalia Adolfovna Miller. Landowner: patrimonial 417 acres in the same province, 6,500 acres in the Mogilev province, the wife - 1,500 acres in the Novgorod province.

In 1877 he graduated from the Naval College with a midshipman, and the following year he was transferred to the 5th naval crew. In 1881-1882 he was the commander of the 7th clipper company " Dzhigit ". In 1882 he was seconded to the Naval Academy. In 1884 he graduated from the mechanical department of the Nikolaev Maritime Academy , and the following year he was dismissed from service for domestic reasons.

After graduating from the Institute of Railway Engineers in 1887, he was assigned to the Ministry of Railways and seconded to the head of the Samara-Ufa Railway . Then he successively held the following positions: assistant clerk of the Provisional Administration of Treasury Railways (1889-1891), full-time engineer and builder of the construction of the Prinarevskaya Railway (1891-1893), head of the technical department of the railway service of the Kursk-Kharkov-Azov Railway (1893-1894 ) and the head of the 2nd section for the construction of the Ostroleka- Warsaw railway (1894-1896). In 1896-1901 he was an engineer at the Ministry of Railways. He rose to the rank of state adviser (1900).

In 1901 he transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was appointed zemstvo chief of the 2nd section of the Rogachev district of the Mogilev province. In 1903 he was appointed county leader of the nobility , in which position he spent one triennium. In 1911, after the introduction of an elective zemstvo in the Western Territory , he was elected a county and provincial vowel . In addition, he was an honorary magistrate of Rogachev county (since 1905) and a member of the district department of the diocesan school council. He was engaged in agriculture, organized a trust of yeast distilleries and "Distillery-yeast and agricultural industrial western society."

September 3, 1913 was elected a member of the State Council from the Mogilev provincial zemstvo, in 1916 - re-elected. He was part of the center group. He was a member of the Commission on Agriculture and the Agricultural Meeting. February 28, 1917 signed a telegram to Nicholas II , in which members of the State Council reported on the critical situation in Petrograd and asked for the resignation of the government. In the fall of 1917, he was nominated as a candidate for the Constituent Assembly from the Mogilev constituency according to the list of the All-Russian Union of Land Owners ^[1] .

The further fate is unknown. According to the niece’s recollections, “after the October Revolution, he lost all his estates and almost never left the prisons until the forties” ^[2] . He was married to Aglaide Alekseevna Unkovskaya, there were no children in the marriage.

• List of persons serving under the Ministry of the Interior of 1904 (amended on April 15). Part II. - SPb., 1904. - S. 336.
• Commemorative books of the Mogilev province for 1911-1916. - Mogilev, 1911-1916.
• State Council of the Russian Empire: 1906-1917. - M .: ROSSPEN, 2008 .-- S. 85.