Draft:Nikolai Nikolajevich Lavrinovski

Nikolai Nikolaevich Lavrinovski (January 18, 1875, Stremutka estate, Pskov province — May 24, 1930, Riga, Latvia) was a Russian statesman and politician, member of the State Duma, senator.

Biography

Orthodox. From the nobility of Pskov province. The son of Nikolai Pavlovich Lavrinovski (1845—after 1918) and Anna Konstantinovna Gazenwinkel (1855—after 1918).

He graduated from the Oryol Bakhtin cadet corps and the Nikolaev Cavalry School in the 1st class (1893), from where he was released as a cornet in the Life Guards of Her Majesty's Cuirassier Regiment. Four years later, he joined the civil service — in the general directorate of the estates, where he served until 1904. Then he settled in the Pskov estate, in 1904-1907 he was the zemstvo chief of the 1st section of the Pskov province. In 1907, he was elected the Pskov district leader of the nobility.

In October 1907, he was elected a member of the State Duma from Pskov province, was a member of the Russian national faction, and was a member of the food and land commissions. He was also a member of the Main Council of the All-Russian National Union.

In May 1911, he resigned his deputy mandate and joined the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Civil ranks: court counselor (1911), collegiate counselor (1912), State Counselor (1912?), Chamberlain (1913), full State Counselor (1915), Privy Counselor (1917).

He served as vice-governor of Voronezh (1911-1912) and Mogilev (1912-1913) provinces, governor of Taurida (1913-1914), Chernihiv (1914-1916) and Livonia (1916-1917) provinces.

On February 8, 1917, he was appointed senator for the Department of Heraldry with the appointment of privy councillors. After the February Revolution, he was dismissed by decree of the Provisional Government according to an application for illness.

During the Civil War, he participated in the White Movement: he negotiated with the Kiev monarchists on the organization of a monarchical congress in Pskov, was a member of the Defense Council of the Northwestern Region, then was at the headquarters of the Northwestern Army.

In 1922, he emigrated to Latvia, settled in Riga and received Latvian citizenship. He served in the cinematographic office, in the central Riga office of the joint-stock tram company, was a controller at the Augsburg Shipping Company. He was a member of the association of the Life Guards of Her Majesty's Cuirassier Regiment.

He died in 1930 in Riga, and was buried at the Pokrovsky Cemetery.

Family

By his first marriage (until 1910) he was married to Elizaveta Nikolaevna Uvarova. Their children:

Elizabeth (1899—?) Nadezda Varvara

In 1912, he married Maria Sergeevna Golikova (1890, Moscow — 1986, Sea Cliff, USA), the daughter of Voronezh governor Golikov. The daughter of this marriage:

Ekaterina (1915—?), married to Kvartirov.