Petrunkevich Ivan Ilyich

Born in g. Chernigov in 1843. Upon completing university, elected vowel borzenskogo county, and then Chernigov Province Zemstvo, in 1869. - Magistrate. In 1879, Mr.. Zemsky circles in Russia there was a movement, aiming to achieve a more legitimate way of free forms of civic coexistence; Petrunkevich was one of the prominent members of this movement, so that was exiled by administrative order, first in Mr.. Varnavin (Kostroma), then to Smolensk and Tver. In 1886. Petrunkevich was able to return to the province of Chernigov, . where in the autumn of the same year was elected to the provincial councilors, this led to his expulsion from the limits of the Kiev governor-generalship, . which was then owned by the province of Chernigov,
. Settling in Tver, Petrunkevich in 1890. Novotorzhskaya was elected to the county and in Tver provincial councilors, among which won prominence. In early 1904,. Petrunkevich was expelled from the province of Tver, but at the end of that year, the opal has been removed from it. In the liberation movement of 1904 - 1906 period Petrunkevich took a prominent part: he was a permanent member of the congresses of rural and urban workers and was part of a delegation that presented the Emperor 6 June 1905, Mr.. petition for the immediate convocation of People's Representatives. With the formation of "People's Freedom" (konst.-democratic), Petrunkevich consists of its member. The structure of the State Duma was elected from the province of Tver. In the first meeting of the State Duma on April 27 (10 May) 1906. Petrunkevich pointed to the need for immediate amnesty for all fighters "for the liberation of all our dear homeland". This was the first speech, uttered in a newly discovered Russian parliament.