Aleksandr Khvostov

Aleksei Nikolaevich Khvostov (1872-1918) was an Imperial Russian Politician. After graduating from the Imperial Alexander Lyceum, he entered the Ministry of Justice. He was later appointed Vice Govenor and then Governor of Nizhnii Novgorod. He was elected to the Fourth Imperial State Duma as a member of one of the right wing parties. He served as Minister of Interior from 1915-1916. He was arrested and imprisoned by the Provisional Government in 1917. In 1918, less than a year after the Bolsheviks seized power he was executed by firing squad.

References

• Out of My Past: The Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov Edited by H.H. Fisher and translated by Laura Matveev; Stanford University Press, 1935.
• The Memoirs of Count Witte Edited and translated by Sydney Harcave; Sharpe Press, 1990.