But on April 12, 1865 his pupil Nicholas died, but Pobedonostsev was invited to teach Nicholas's brother Alexander ( the future tsar Alexander III ).

It was then that he began to study the principles of law and administration under Konstantin Pobedonostsev, then a professor of civil law at Moscow State University and later ( from 1880 ) chief procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church in Russia.

Pobedonostsev and Tsarevich Alexander remained very close for almost thirty years, from Alexander's ascension as a Tsar until his death in 1894.

Pobedonostsev was known for his gaunt figure and pale, corpse-like countenance, as one may judge from this portrait by Ilya Repin.

According to British author Arnold White, interested in Jewish agricultural colonisation in Argentina, who visited Pobedonostsev with credentials from Baron de Hirsch, Pobedonostsev said to him: " The characteristics of the Jewish race are parasitic ; for their sustenance they require the presence of another race as " host " although they remain aloof and self-contained.

In the latter office Pobedonostsev was de facto head of the Russian Orthodox Church, just the year before the Tsar was assassinated.

Though Pobedonostsev is mostly known as statesman and thinker, his contribution to Russian civil law is significant.

In the early years of the reign of Alexander II, Pobedonostsev maintained, though keeping aloof from the Slavophiles, that Western institutions were radically bad in themselves and totally inapplicable to Russia since they had no roots in Russian history and culture and did not correspond to the spirit of Russian people.

* Reflections of a Russian Statesman by Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev.

* Encyclopedia article on Pobedonostsev ( in Russian )

His writings, printed posthumously by his friends and disciples, exerted profound influence on the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian lay philosophers, such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, and Vladimir Solovyov.

Alexander III assigned his former tutor, conservative Konstantin Pobedonostsev, to be the procurator of the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church and Ivan Delyanov to be the minister of education.

The tsar's most influential adviser was Konstantin Pobedonostsev, tutor to Alexander III and his son Nicholas, and procurator of the Holy Synod from 1880 to 1895.

Under Pobedonostsev, revolutionaries were hunted down and a policy of Russification was carried out throughout the empire.

Alexander III was a staunch reactionary and an antisemite ( influenced by Pobedonostsev ) who strictly adhered to the old doctrine of Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Ethnocentrism.

The Tsar's minister Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev stated that the aim of the government with regard to the Jews was that: " One third will die out, one third will leave the country and one third will be completely dissolved the surrounding population ".

Written in 1886, the play's production was forbidden to be produced Russia until 1902, mainly through the influence of Konstantin Pobedonostsev.

Pobedonostsev's father Pyotr Vasilyevich Pobedonostsev was a Professor of literature at Moscow State University.

For the next six years Pobedonostsev was lecturing eight hours every week while continuing to work in the eighth Moscow department.

Pobedonostsev was influential in promulgation of all anti-Jewish measures taken during the Alexander III's administration, such as deportations of Jews from large cities, proscriptions of property ownership in rural as well as urban areas, enrollment quotas in public education, and the proscription to vote in local elections.

Although Pobedonostsev, especially during the later years of his life, was generally detested, there was at least one man who not only shared his views but also sympathized with him personally.

A private house of Mikhail Romanov was restored on the orders of Alexander II of Russia, but even Konstantin Pobedonostsev questioned the authenticity of this reconstruction.

After Katkov's death his place at the helm of the conservative party was taken by Konstantin Pobedonostsev and Aleksey Suvorin.

One of them, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, wrote that " the eyes, by themselves, would be attractive, I suppose, only her gaze has no depth -- the kind in which transparency and naivete meet with lifelessness and stupidity ... How it irks me to see her in the place of the dear, wise, and graceful Empress!

Saying, that " a third of Jews will be converted, a third will emigrate, and the rest will die of hunger ," is often attributed to Pobedonostsev.

* March 23 – Konstantin Pobedonostsev, statesman ( b. 1827 )

The first powered flight faster than sound may have been the Soviet ramjet experiments of Yuri Pobedonostsev in 1933.

During his maturity, Repin painted many of his most celebrated compatriots, including the novelist Leo Tolstoy, the court photographer Rafail Levitsky, the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, the imperial official Konstantin Pobedonostsev, the composer Modest Mussorgsky, the cellist Aleksandr Verzhbilovich, the philanthropist Pavel Tretyakov, and the Ukrainian poet and painter, Taras Shevchenko.

Konstantin Pobedonostsev.

After graduation Konstantin Pobedonostsev entered the public service as an official in the eighth Moscow department of the Senate.

As a result, Pobedonostsev had to resign from Moscow State University due to the lack of time.

In 1866 Pobedonostsev moved to a permanent residence in St. Petersburg.

Konstantin Pobedonostsev grave In 1901, Nikolai Lagovski, a supporter of socialist ideas, tried to kill Pobedonostsev.

During the revolutionary tumult, which followed the disastrous war with Japan, Pobedonostsev, being nearly 80 years of age, retired from public affairs.

In addition, Pobedonostsev published in 1865 in Moskovskie Vedomosti several anonymous articles on the judicial reform of Alexander II.

Pobedonostsev held the view that human nature is sinful, rejecting the ideals of freedom and independence as " dangerous delusions of nihilistic youth.

The " fourth party ", as it was nicknamed, at first did little damage to the government, but awakened the opposition from its apathy ; Churchill roused the Conservatives by leading resistance to Charles Bradlaugh, the member for Northampton, who, though an avowed atheist or agnostic, was prepared to take the parliamentary oath.

The Tin Woodman little by little lost his natural body and had it replaced by metal ; so he has lost his heart and cannot move without the help of farmers ( represented by the Scarecrow ); in reality he has a strong sense of cooperation and love, which needs only an infusion of self-confidence to be awakened.

The Tin Woodman little by little lost his natural body and had it replaced by metal ; so, he has lost his heart and cannot move without the help of farmers ( represented by the Scarecrow ); in reality he has a strong sense of cooperation and love, which needs only an infusion of self-confidence to be awakened.

While at Cambridge the Spanish Civil War ( although he admitted he had little idea about what was going on ) awakened his hostility to fascism.

Except in the case of a select few, Irving's preaching awakened little interest among the congregation of St John's.

A little before midnight Muso was awakened by a young man, who informed him that earlier that day, before he had arrived, his father had died.

Hilda concocts a fantasy of the earlier " ecstatic erotic encounter " in order to entrap Solness through awakened desire and guilt ; however, all Solness can remember of Hilda is that she was " one of those little devils in white … screaming up at me ".