Aleksandr Stishinsky

Aleksandr Semenovich Stishinsky (June 18, 1851, Tiflis – December 29, 1920, Constantinople) was a Russian statesman and nationalist politician.

Worked in the Department for General Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior ; transferred to the Imperial Chancellery (1873); Assistant State Secretary (1882–1886), then again transferred to the Ministry of the Interior; Head of the Peasant Section (1893); Assistant Imperial Secretary (1896–1899).

Head of the Chief Administration of Land Organization and Agriculture in the Goremykin cabinet (April — June 1906).

Chairman of the Committee to Fight German Domination [in Russia] (1916).

He was arrested during the February Revolution and imprisoned for 9 months in Peter and Paul Fortress.