Alexey Yermolov (politician)

[1][2] Worked as a senior editor of the statistical department and member of the Research Council of the Imperial Ministry for Agriculture.

[3] In 1883-1892 he served as the head of the Indirect taxation department of the Ministry for Economics.

[3] In 1893 became Minister of Agriculture and State Properties of Russian Empire and served until 1905.

[1] Yermolov and Sergei Witte were targets of the sharp criticism by Vladimir Lenin in his work What the “Friends of the People” Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats.

[4] According to Lenin, Yermolov's opposition to migration as it could cause a shortage of labour for landowners, saying "What do the peasants exist for, if not to work and feed the idle landlords and their “high-placed” servitors?"