Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov

His father Dmitry Nabokov (1827–1904) was a Justice Minister in the reign of Alexander II from 1878 to 1885, and his mother Maria von Korff (1842–1926) was a Baroness from a prominent Baltic German family in Courland.

[1] His son Sergei was gay and was sent to Neuengamme labour camp, where he died on the 9 January 1945 due to a combination of dysentery, starvation and exhaustion.

A prominent member of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CD, the "Kadets"), Nabokov was elected to Russia's parliament, the First Duma.

He was regarded as the most outspoken defender of Jewish rights in the Russian Empire, continuing in a family tradition that had been led by his own father, Dmitry Nabokov, who as Justice Minister under Tsar Alexander II successfully opposed anti-semitic measures being passed in the government.

From 1920 until his death, Nabokov was the editor of the Russian émigré newspaper Rul‘ ("The Rudder"), which continued to advocate a pro-Western democratic government in Russia.

During the proceedings, Pyotr Shabelsky-Bork and Sergey Taboritsky approached the stage singing the Tsarist national anthem and then opened fire on liberal politician and publisher Pavel Milyukov.