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The Kamendrovsky Family
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The most important people in Kislovodsk
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Old Pictures of Kislovodsk
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And in the afternoons he [Father] played chess in the park with kind, grey General Ruzsky, old Prince Urusov and neat Count Vladimir Kokovtsoff, the former Tsarist prime minister.
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This was probably Prince Sergey Dmitriyevich Urusov (1862–1937), son of chess player Dimitry Urusov, since the other Urusoff, Prince Lev Urusoff, was a diplomat in Japan at the time.
Prince Sergey Dmitriyevich Urusov
(1862–1937) Son of chess player Dimitry Urusov. He was a politician, governor and thrice-elected Marshal of the Kaluga Nobility. In 1906, he held positions in government. After the Revolution, he worked in the Soviet government before committing suicide to avoid arrest in 1937.
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Count Kokovtsoff
(6 April 1853 – 29 January 1943)
Count Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsoff was a politician who served as the Prime Minister of Russia from 1911 to 1914, during the reign of Emperor Nicholas II.
After the February Revolution, he moved to Kislovodsk, where he stayed until June 1918.
He was investigated by the Cheka, but escaped with his family to Finland and eventually settled in Paris.
He was a leading figure in Russian émigré society in Paris until his death.
Soviet Commissar Kirov on the Kurzal
When a broad-faced Soviet Commissar Kirov, proclaimed the arrival of Soviet power from the balcony of their beautiful concert hall [the Kurzal] and local Soviet workers replaced the old town council.
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Sergey Mironovich Kirov
(born Sergey Mironovich Kostrikov, 27 March 1886 – 1 December 1934)
A Soviet politician and revolutionary whose assassination was used as a pretext to launch the first Great Purge.