Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev

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Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev (Russian: Андрей Иванович Шингарев; 1869 – 1918) was a Russian doctor, publicist and politician. He was a Duma deputy and one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic party (known as the Kadets).

He was the Minister of Agriculture in the first Provisional Government. Arrested and imprisoned by the Bolsheviks after the October Revolution, he was transferred, along with his fellow Kadet Fyodor Kokoshkin, to the Mariinskaya Hospital on Jan. 6, 1918, after becoming seriously ill; both "were brutally murdered there on the following night by a group of Baltic sailors, who broke into the hospital. The Ministry of Justice later revealed that the murders had taken place with the connivance of the Bolshevik Red Guard and the Commandant of the Hospital, Stefan Basov, who justified the murder on the grounds that there would be 'two less bourgeois mouths to feed'. Basov was brought to trial and convicted, but none of the murderers was ever caught and the Bolshevik leaders, who at first condemned the murders, later sought to justify them as an act of political terror." (Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, p. 536n.)