Word: miliukov
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov, 84, Russian historian and revolutionist, For eign Minister of Russia's short-lived Pro visional Government of 1917; in Aix-les-Bains, France. Twice imprisoned, once exiled by the Imperial Government, he helped found the anti-Czarist Constitutional Democratic Party in the early 1900s, fled with Kerensky after the Bolshevist coup...
When the Bolsheviks overthrew the liberal Kerensky Government, Kerensky's foreign minister, learned History Professor Paul Miliukov, told Hoover he had hidden tsarist archives in a barn in Finland. "If you can get them," said Miliukov, "you can have them." "Getting them was no trouble at all," says Hoover. "We were feeding Finland at the time...
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