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Dmitriy Andreyevich Tostoy (Толстой, Дмитрий Андреевич in Russian) (3.(13). 1823 — 5.7(4.25). 1889), Russian statesman, member of the State Council of Imperial Russia ( 1866), Count.Tolstoy graduated from the Tsarskoselsky College in 1843. He held a managing position at the Ministry of the Navy beginning in 1853. Tolstoy was a procurator of the Holy Synod in 1865- 1880, simultaneously holding a post of the Minister of Education (since 1866). In 1871, Tolstoy was in charge of the college reform, which would result in the prevalence of the classical education (included LatinAlternative meanings: See Latin (disambiguation Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages are descended from Latin, and ma and GreekThe word Greek has a number of meanings relating to Greece, including: Architecture of Ancient Greece Art in Ancient Greece Greek alphabet Greek colonies Cuisine of Greece Ethnic Greek Greco-Turkish relations Greece Hellenes History of Greece History of M languages and AncientFor the span of recorded history starting roughly 5,000-5,500 years ago, see Ancient history''. Ancient is a Norwegian band that, while not really troll metal, had troll metal themes on their 1994 EP 'Trolltaar'. The band started as a solo project of guit literature, among other things).
In 1882Events February 2 The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut February 7 In Mississippi City the last heavyweight boxing championship bareknuckle fight takes place. March 2 Robert Maclean fails to assassinate Queen Victoria at Windsor Mar— 1889, Tolstoy was the Interior Minister and Chief of Gendarmery . He is considered one of the pillars of the political reactionA reaction is the following: In physics, a reaction (physics) is defined by Newton's third law: "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction". The idea that any given force has a pair or opposite force. Usually, a reaction is any response cau in 1880sEvents and Trends About 300 000 Swedes emigrate to the United States. First Boer War First commercial production and sales of phonographs and phonograph recordings. First steel frame construction "sky-scrapers" The New Imperialism Science and technology J and supporter of the strong authority. Tolstoy's activities were aimed at backing the nobilityThe nobility represents, or has represented, the higher stratum of a society in which social classes can be distinguished. The most distinctive feature of nobilty is that once acquired, it is passed to descendants, possibly according to some rules. Initia, regulating peasantry's modus vivendi and spreading his administration's influence over local authorities. On Tolstoy's initiative, they issued the so called "Temporary regulations" in 1882, which limited the freedom of press to an even greater extent. Tolstoy, together with A.Pazukhin, outlined and prepared the so called " counterreforms ", which would become very unpopular in Russia.
Tolstoy was elected President of the Russian Academy of Science in 1882. He wrote a number of books on Russian history.
