Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo

Pyotr Durnovo
Born1845
Died1915
NationalityRussian
Occupationcivil servant

Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo (Russian: Пётр Никола́евич Дурновó) (1845 in Moscow Governorate – 24 September [O.S. 11 September] 1915 in Petrograd) was an Imperial Russian lawyer, politician, and member of Russian nobility belonged to House of Durnovo. Known by anti-Tsarist revolutionaries in the era of the Russian Revolution of 1905 as "the counter-revolution's butcher."[1]

  1. ^ Trotsky, Leon (1909). 1905. Vintage Books/Random House. p. 122. ISBN 0-394-71515-2.