Order of Saint Stanislaus (2) Medal "In memory of the reign of Emperor Alexander III" Order of Noble Bukhara
Pavel Alexandrovich Alexandrov (
Russian: Павел Александрович Александров, 1866 - September 24, 1940) was a distinguished
lawyer and state official of the
Russian Empire, councillor of state.[1] He investigated the most
sensational crimes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which received wide coverage in the
mass media.[2]
From 1897 he served in the
Petersburg District Court - in the first instance as an investigator.
In 1909 he became an investigator for particularly important cases.
Starting in 1916 he was an investigator for particularly important cases in St. Petersburg court. He investigated the attempted murder of Prime Minister
Sergei Witte (in 1907, he proved that the
Tsarist secret police had been involved), the poisoning of Mr. Buturlin by Dr. Panchenko, the murder of actress Ms. Timme, Mr. Orlov-Davydov and the artist Mr. Poiret, the
swindler Ms. Olga Stein, the teacher-lecher Mr. Du-Lu, the death of the son of Admiral Mr. Crochae, and a fire at St. Petersburg folk house, caused by Prince of Oldenburg and others. He earned a reputation as an impartial and faithful investigator and was political impartial, ensuring public confidence in the results of his investigation.
At the beginning of 1917 Aleksandrov was a teacher of "production techniques of investigation for espionage affairs" at the school of
counterintelligence at the Main Directorate of the General
Staff of the
Russian Empire. During the judicial investigation for
treason of
Vladimir Lenin and the
Bolsheviks - Mr. Alexandrov sewed to Volume 11 of the case filed testimony from chief central department of
counterintelligence at the Main Directorate of the General Staff of Mr. Medvedev, and Volume 13 of the case - fully compiled of agential of the material of
counterintelligence.[3]
After the
February Revolution, Justice Minister Mr. Skaryatin seconded Mr. Alexandrov to special commission of inquiry, which investigated the activities of the "
Union of the Russian People", case «Manasevich-Manuylov», case «Bielecki», case «Protopopov» and others. In July 1917, Mr. Alexandrov submitted to a commission of inquiry to investigate «
July events» 3–5 July (building counterintelligence on the waterfront of the "Resurrection" was attacked twice per day — the main goal was
Bolsheviks to capture the
counterintelligence archives at the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the
Russian Empire, which contained incriminating documents about the anti-state activities of the Bolsheviks).
Counterintelligence gave
examining magistrate Mr. Alexandrov several
cupboards (with of correspondence and
telegrams), that included
compromising information on the
Bolsheviks and
Vladimir Lenin.[4] Mr. Alexandrov was requested to present a
formal public prosecution against
Vladimir Lenin on the basis of "a criminal act under 51, 100 and 108 § 1 of Art.
Criminal LawCode of the Russian empire".
In mid-April 1917, Alexandrov opened a criminal case against Lenin and the Bolsheviks. On October 17, 1917, Alexandrov interrogated the last witness - Mr. Alexeev. The case against the Bolsheviks was never completed, because the person under investigation,
Vladimir Lenin, organized a
coup d'etat in October 1917, which was when his
court hearing was scheduled. The criminal case was so important that the confiscation of his 21 volumes was the first command of the new government, the future
USSR, before even the attack on the Winter Palace.
October 21, 1918, Alexandrov was
arrested by the
Cheka in
USSR, because of his conscientious performance of official duties in the
public service in the
Russian Empire. He was arrested at a station on the Veimarn Baltic Railway. Together with his
son-in-law (Mr. Anatoly Alexeyevich Zhdanov) concluded in concentration camp with the phrase - "before the end of the
Civil War" (two years[5]); his
daughter released. A July 26, 1919, at the request
Demyan Bedny addressed to
Felix Dzerzhinsky released
son-in-law (Mr. Anatoly Alexeyevich Zhdanov).
In 1925, he again gave testimony to Soviet law enforcement agencies (
OGPU) after arrest. At the time, he worked as head of the department of incidents on "October
railway" in
Moscow.
In early 1929 his wife requested application in "
Political Red Cross" for facilitating repression. The Russian
FSB) preserved a note from
Anatoly Lunacharsky (1929):
«I hereby certify that Mr. Alexandrov P. A. being forensic investigator for particularly important cases under the government of
Alexander Kerensky, he led my case, and showed himself in this man perfectly valid and objective.
People's Commissar for Education
Anatoly Lunacharsky».[6]
In 1932 - he was released early from the
concentration camp and sent to serve his remaining term in
Siberia.
In the mid-1930s - after his release he returned to Moscow and worked as a
legal adviser in the office of the Chief Supply Management sugar industry Commissariat food industry.
On 17–18 November 1939, he was arrested at night[1] without the production of a criminal case, in violation of the regulation of the
Central Executive Committee of the USSR issued on November 2, 1927: "On
amnesty to mark the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution". There was a request of the
security organs «KGB» not to apply
amnesty to Mr. Aleksandrov. This request was adopted by the
Prosecutor's Office the USSR on the May 22, 1939. This was decided at the
Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on 11 November 1939. At the time of his arrest, he worked as a legal adviser in the economic office supplies.
On September 24, 1940, he was shot. He was buried in «
Donskoi Cemetery» (in «Common Grave Number 1», after burning in a «Donskoi
crematorium»[7]).
November 9, 1993 the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation posthumously
rehabilitated him.[8][9]
Career colleagues Mr. P. A. Alexandrov lawyer
Andrey Vyshinsky turned out differently, though A. Vyshinsky signed order for the
arrest of
V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin).[10] Since
Andrey Vyshinsky became a member of the
RSDLP before 1917, and his immediate supervisor, the (
Minister of Justice of the Russian Empire Mr. Pavel Nikolaevich Maljantovich, was a member of the
RSDLP), they warned the head of the
RSDLPV. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) about an impending
arrest, to facilitate his escape and concealment from justice.
His wife Katherine Ivanovna Alexandrova (*born 1875), had secondary education and was a housewife.
In 1929, after her husband was sent to a
concentration camp, she lived with relatives in
Pyatigorsk. In the autumn of 1933, she was arrested in Pyatigorsk. On December 12, 1933, she was sentenced to three years' exile in
Siberia and sent to
Tomsk Oblast.[1][11]
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Никитин Б. В. // «Роковые годы». г. Москва: изд. «Айрис-Пресс», 2007 г. — С. 19, 26–27, 48–49, 124–25, 128, 131, 136, 139, 142, 149, 152–54, 215, 336, 367. (in Russian)