Nikolay Maklakov

His reaction to the Siberian goldfield strike, ending in the Lena massacre, and believed to have made revolutionary feeling widespread in Russia for the first time, was "So it was.

In December 1916, he appealed with a letter to the Tsar, in which he persuaded him to adopt a more rigid course, and to delay the resumption of sessions of the Duma to a later period.

The Emperor instructed Maklakov and Alexander Protopopov on 8 February 1917 to prepare a Manifesto on the dissolution of the Imperial State Duma.

He remained in Kresty prison and was able to leave every now then the hospital until his death by firing squad in a public execution in Moscow's Petrovsky Park.

His children, including Yuri Nikolayevich Maklakov, escaped or fled to their uncle Vasily in Paris and participated in the White army.