ANTS Mikhail

Ants Mikhail (1796, St. Petersburg - 1866, ibid) - State. figure. Brother A. N. Muraviev. He received education at home and graduated from the Moscow. Univ. In 1810 was the organizer of Moscow. Society of Mathematicians, later turned into uch-School kolonnovozhatyh. At the end of 1811 enlisted. During the battle of Borodino was wounded in the battery NN. Rajewski, participated in foreign campaign rus. Army. In 1817, a visiting brother, joined the "Union of Salvation", participated in the drafting of the statute of the "Union of Welfare. In 1821, while in retirement, away from the Decembrist movement. In 1825, arrested and interrogated, Murav'ev unable to defend himself, to earn the trust of Nicholas 1, and in 1826 was released. Some joined the Ministry of Interior, Ants quickly made his career, became the Vitebsk and Mogilev Governor. Ruthlessly suppressed the Polish insurrection 1830-1831. When asked whether he hanged relative SI. Muraviev-Apostol, Ants said: "I am not one of those Muravyovs, who were hanged, but of those who hang". In 1835 he was appointed military governor of Kursk and became known hard squeezing peasant arrears. In 1849 received the epaulettes of Lieutenant-General. In 1850 appointed a member of the State. Board. In 1857-1861 served as Minister of State. Property. An experienced bureaucrat, masterful and clever, Murav'ev skillfully resisted the impending reform of the peasant. In 1863 he was appointed Governor-General of the Northwestern. edge. He displayed an excellent knowledge of methods and techniques roar. case during the brutal suppression of the uprising in Belarus and Lithuania in 1863, received from the king the title of count, and in society nickname of "hangman". As governor skillfully pursued a policy of Russification. In 1866 he was appointed chairman of the Supreme Commission of Inquiry DV. Karakozov failing the last time to show vigor and firmness: "I am old, but either their bones lie, or I will go to the very root of evil."