Nikolai Kutler

Nikolai Kutler.

Nikolai Kutler (1859–1924) was a Russian politician.

Biography

Assistant minister of the Interiour, 1904–1905. Assistant minister of Finance, manager of Nobles Land Bank and Peasant Land Bank, 1905. Minister of Agriculture, 1905. Kutler resigned from his position when he was criticized for his project of compulsory alienation of private estates in February 1906 and joined Constitutional Democratic Party. He was elected member of 2nd and 3rd State Dumas.

After the Bolshevik revolution Kutler worked at the People's Commissariat of Finance and was State Bank of the USSR board member.

References

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