Ivan Shcheglovitov
Ivan Grigorevich Shcheglovitov (23 February 1861 – 5 September 1918) was Russian minister of Justice.
Life
Graduate of the Imperial School of Law. Held various posts in the Senate and the Ministry of Justice between 1890 and 1905; Assistant Minister of Justice (1906), Minister of Justice (1906-1915), Member of the State Council (1907), and Chairman of the State Council (January 1917). Shcheglovitov was one of the main instigators of a notorious Blood libel case against Menachem Beilis in 1913.[1]
After the February Revolution he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress; later transferred to Moscow and executed by the Bolsheviks during the period of Red Terror.
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Preceded by Mikhail Akimov |
Minister of Justice 1906–1915 |
Succeeded by Aleksandr Khvostov |
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