A. N. Naumov. Surviving Memories. 1868-1917. [IN RUSSIAN]

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Alexander Nikolayevich Naumov. Surviving Memories. 1868-1917. Volume 2 (Из уцелевших воспоминаний). Frontis portrait of author. The even-handed and rich memoirs of a statesman, Zemstvo chief, district and provincial leader of the nobility, deputy of the Octobrist party (moderate party in the Russian Duma that supported Tsar Nicholas II's reforming manifesto of October 30, 1905), and a short-term minister of agriculture. His conservatism and loyalty with an uncanny ability to criticize the authorities and understand the work of social mechanisms, makes his memoirs interesting and entertaining. Naumov was born in 1868 and died in 1950. IN RUSSIAN. 

Brown hardcover, library binding. Published by A. K. Naumoff and O. Kusevitskaya, NY. 584 pages. Wear to covers, edges tanned, small mark 1st page. In Russian and in the old orthography. 1 copy only. Note: Volume 2 only.

Naumov was a land captain in Samara Governorate from 1893 to 1897, a member of the Zemstvo Assembly of Stavropol Uezd in Samara Governorate from 1894 to 1897, and, from 1897 to 1902, the Chairman of the Zemstvo Board of Samara Governorate. The Tsar bestowed on him the title of Marshal of Nobility of Stavropol Uezd in 1902, and of Samara in 1905. Naumov was the publisher of the periodical Golos Samary; he was elected a member of the Russian State Council in 1909, 1912, and 1915 and again in 1916. He served as the Russian Minister of Agriculture during 1915 and 1916, then fled in the wake of the October Revolution.