Aleksandr Rittikh

[1] He was described as an exemplary, neat and smart worker ... with a remarkable perseverance and extraordinary sense of duty.

This measure, often associated with the later Bolshevik regime, where it was known as prodrazvyorstka, was implemented originally by the Imperial Russian Government.

His work in trying to resolve the food crisis is highly praised by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in The Red Wheel, March 1917 node.

During the February Revolution along with Nikolai Pokrovsky he tried unsuccessfully to negotiate with representatives of the Imperial Duma.

In 1920 Alexander Krivoshein offered him a post in the Government of South Russia, operating in the Crimea under General Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, but Rittikh refused.