Sturmer
BORIS VLADIMIRO- VITCH, Russian statesman. He studied law at the University of Petrograd, and began his political career as a member of the Russian Senate in 1872.
Following the coronation of Nicholas II., he was recalled from the governorship of Novgorod and was made Master of Ceremonies at the Palace. He was again appointed governor of Novgorod in 1894, and in 1896 became governor of Yaroslav. He was appointed president of the Council of Ministers in 1918, and in the same year succeeded Goremykin as minister of foreign affairs.
He conspired with Rasputin and Protopopov, former minister of the interior, to poison the minds of the Czar and his wife. This was one of the chief causes of the revolt of 1917. In June, 1917, following the revolution, he was indicted for abuse of his power, and was imprisoned in the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, where he died on September 3d.
Disclosures made following his death proved that he had betrayed Rumania to the Germans and in other ways taken the part of Germany against the interests of his own country.