The Short Victorious War is a science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, first published in 1994. It is the third book in the Honor Harrington series. [1] Its title comes from a quotation by Vyacheslav von Plehve in reference to the Russo-Japanese War: "What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution."
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Biography. Plehve was born in Meshchovsk, Kaluga Governorate, Russia, on 20 April 1846. [1] He was the only son of schoolteacher Konstantin von Plehve and Elizaveta Mikhailovna Shamaev, daughter of a minor landowner. In 1851, Plehve's family moved from Meshchovsk to Warsaw, where his father accepted a job as an instructor in a gymnasium .
Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve, Plehve also spelled Pleve, (born April 20 [April 8, old style], 1846, Kaluga province, Russia—died July 28 [July 15, O.S.], 1904, St. Petersburg), Russian imperial statesman whose efforts to uphold autocratic principle, a police -bureaucratic government, and class privilege resulted in the suppression of revolu...
As a conservative statesman in late imperial Russia, Vyacheslav Plehve (von Plehwe) was a key figure in the tsarist regime's struggle against revolution. An experienced prosecutor, he was tapped in 1881 to head the imperial police following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II .
Following the Socialist-Revolutionary Party's assassination of MVD Minister Dmitry Sipyagin on April 2, 1902, the new Minister Vyacheslav von Plehve gradually relieved the Directorates of Gendarmes of their investigation power in favor of Security and Investigation Stations (Охранно-розыскное отделение) under respective Mayors and Governors (who...
The Short Victorious War is a science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, first published in 1994. It is the third book in the Honor Harrington series. [1] Its title comes from a quotation by Vyacheslav von Plehve in reference to the Russo-Japanese War: "What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution."
PLEHVE, VYACHESLAV KONSTANTINOVICH VON ° (1846–1904), Russian statesman, a leader of Russian reactionary circles during the reigns of Alexander iii and Nicholas ii. In 1881 he was appointed director of the police department of the Ministry of the Interior and from 1884 to 1894 he was deputy minister.
Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve ) из Плевны Константи́нович фон Пле́ве, IPA: ; 20 April 1846 – 28 July 1904) served as a director of Imperial Russia's police from 1881 to 1884 and later as Minister of the Interior prior to his assassination.
Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve ( Russian: Вячесла́в (Wenzel (Славик)) из Плевны Константи́нович фон Пле́ве, IPA: [vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf fɐn ˈplʲevʲɪ]; 20 April [ O.S. 8 April] 1846 – 28 July [ O.S. 15 July] 1904) served as a director of Imperial Russia 's police from 1881 to 1884 and later ...
In April 1903, a massacre of 49 Jews in Kishinev, a southwestern city in czarist-era Russia, shook the world. Historian Steven Zipperstein, author of a new book on the Kishinev pogrom, says the massacre is a case study of how news warps into mythology that then becomes common knowledge. (Image credit: Tony Ronaldo)
Part of the knowledge that ends up being canonized is that the pogrom was organized by the imperial Russian government, specifically by Minister of the Interior Vyacheslav von Plehve.
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Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve served as a director of Imperial Russia's police from 1881 to 1884 and later as Minister of the Interi... Wikipedia
- April 8, 1846, Meshchovsk, Russia
- July 15, 1904, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Nikolay Plehve
- Konstantin von Plehve, Elizaveta Mikhailovna Shamaeva
- Moscow State University, Faculty of Law
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