Summary Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostev Factfile

Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostev “The Great Inquisitor” (1827 - 1907)

Roles
-Russian Civil servant
-Conservative politician
-Advisor to Alexander III and Nicholas II
-Chief Administrator of the Holy Synod of the
Russian Orthodox Church (The Holy Synod formulates
rules and regulations of church organisations) - held this
position until 1905
-Immense power = domestic policy, religious polices
education and censorship
-Rapid expansion of primary education; in favour of
religion
-Restricted higher education to the upper classes
-Expelled ideas from West, specifically of constitutional
and democratic government
- Encouraged Pogroms and Russification against
Jewish population
- After 1905 Revolution - forced into retirement


Beliefs - Orthodoxy, Autocracy, Nationality
- Maintenance of stability is the role of the government
- Paternalistic and authoritarian government
- Land, family and national church (Russian Orthodoxy)
- Opposed other religions (Catholics and Jewish people)
- Supported Russification of minority groups
- Class system and hierarchy to be maintained
- Anti Semitic