Ivan (Ioann) Titov was born on 18 February (or March),[1][2] 1879, at the Nikolaev plant of Osinsky Uyezd (Perm Governorate) into the family of a clergyman.

[6] For the telegram sent to Emperor Nicholas II with a request to mitigate the fate of the technicians sentenced to death, Titov was during the election campaign "under the ban" (forbidden in priesthood);[4] went beyond the state of the diocese.

Titov's signature is under the draft laws "On Changing Laws on the Collection and Administration of Zemstvo and Natural Duties of Peasants", "On Improving and Increasing Peasant Land Tenure and Land Use", "On Introducing Zemstvo in Siberia", "Rules for Admission to Higher Educational Institutions" and "On Abolition of the Death Penalty".

[4] He also served as a rapporteur for the Conciliation Commission on the bill on the abolition of restrictions related to the deprivation or voluntary removal of the dignity or rank.

In the new convocation, he was a member of a number of commissions: budgetary, on the continuity of legislative work of the Third Duma, on public education (from the first session – secretary), on affairs of the Orthodox Church, personnel, on meetings, financial, on trade and industry, on the press.

On 28 February the Provisional Committee of the State Duma appointed him commissioner to the Ministry of Finance,[8] where on 1 March he set the agency the task of restoring work "in normal order".

[4] On 4 March, at a meeting of the Provisional Government, Titov was appointed head of the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty, previously transferred to the Ministry of Finance.

He received the authority of the Commissioner of the Provisional Government to examine the economic part of the former Ministry of the Imperial Court and Allotments.

On 8 April, upon his return to Petrograd, he was sent to the area of the Fort "Ino" (Nikolaev) of the Kronstadt Fortress "for communication with the troops and the population".

[5] After the Bolshevik Coup in October 1917, Titov emigrated to Turkey (Constantinople), where he was a member of the Russian parliamentary committee.

[5][9] During the Second World War, Ivan Vasilievich was left without a permanent job: on 4 March 1943 he was admitted to the Russian House as the second psalmist of the local Nicholas Church.

[4] In 1946–1948, Ivan Vasilievich Titov was the second assistant to the abbot of the Nicholas Church in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois in the suburbs of Paris, where he died on 18 October 1948.