Raman Skirmunt

Raman Skirmunt
Chairmen of the People's Secretariat of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
In office
June 1918 – August 1918
Serving with Jan Sierada
Preceded byJazep Varonka
Succeeded byAnton Luckievich
Personal details
Born(1868-05-07)7 May 1868
Parechcha, Pinsky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Pinsk District, Belarus)
Died7 October 1939
near Pinsk

Raman (Roman) Skirmunt (Belarusian: Раман Скірмунт; 7 May 1868 – 7 October 1939) was a Belarusian and Polesian statesman, aristocrat and landlord. Patron, significant landowner, vice-chairman (1907-1917, 1918-?) of the Minsk Agricultural Society. Deputy (1906) of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire; deputy (1910-1911) of the State Council of the Russian Empire from the Minsk province; (nominal) Prime Minister of the BNR (1918) — was not approved for the post of Prime Minister; senator of Poland (1930-1935). His cousin Konstanty Skirmunt was a notable Polish diplomat and minister of foreign affairs.