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Milyukoff

PAUL NIKOLAIE- VITCH, Russian historian and publicist, born near Petrograd, in 1859.

Graduat ing from Moscow University, he taught for some years, then became involved in a revolutionary movement, which pelled him to flee abroad.

After a brief period as professor of Slavic history in the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, he came to America and was for three years a member of the faculty of Chicago University. In 1905 he returned to Russia, where he became engaged in politics and assumed the leadership of the Constitutional Democratic party, more popularly known as "the Cadets." prominent as a journalist and founded He was also the newspaper " Retch." After the revolution of March, 1917, when he was a MIMOSA member of the Duma, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet of the Provisional Government. Incurring radical elements, because of his advocacy of Russian ex- PAUL NIKOLAIEVITCH MILYUKOFF nople, he was forced to resign. After pansion in the direction of Constantiin the direction of Constantithe second revolution , which placed the abroad, and was later one of the body of Bolsheviki in power, he became a refugee Ru Russians who urged the Allied countries to adopt an anti-Bolshevik policy. representation among the Greeks and

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