Stolypin

British

/ ˌstʌlɪˈpjɪn /

noun

Petr Arkadievich. 1863–1911, Russian conservative statesman: prime minister (1906–11). He instituted agrarian reforms but was ruthless in suppressing rebellion: assassinated

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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

Possibly Stolypin has discovered the reason you travelled to Berlin a month ago.

From The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by Le Queux, William

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