Stolypin
Britishnoun
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Peter Stolypin, one of the most accomplished Russian statesmen of the era, loathed Rasputin but couldn’t convince the czar to banish him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
At that same opera house, a teenage Paustovsky witnessed the assassination of reformist Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin, a crucial step in the lead-up to revolution.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2023
The latter was how the reformist prime minister of the time, Pyotr Stolypin, contemptuously spoke of him.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2016
“Better ten Rasputins,” he told his prime minister, Pytor Stolypin, “than one of the empress’s hysterical fits.”
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2016
Ominous signs of a reversal of policy had appeared before, but the first official expression to it was given in the speech of M. Stolypin already referred to.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
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