Vladimir Nikolaevich Lvov (April 2, 1872 – September 20, 1930) was a Russian politician and statesman, member of the State Duma of the III and IV convocations.

He had wanted to enter the monastery, but the famous old man Barnabas of Gethsemane (Merkulov), now canonized, did not bless him on the tonsure, but found him a bride and performed a wedding ceremony.

Removed from the Synod of his former members: metropolitans of Petrograd Pitirim (Oknova) and Moscow Macarius (Nevsky), whom the press accused of having links with Rasputin.

14 (27) April 1917 initiated the publication of a decree of the Provisional Government on changing the composition of the Holy Synod, who left from his former members only the Archbishop Sergius (Stragorodsky).

On July 8 (21), 1917, Lvov resigned, supporting the creation of a new government led by Alexander Kerensky, who, however, did not include him in his cabinet, preferring to appoint the chief prosecutor of a much more tactful and who knew how to find a common language with the hierarchy of professor Anton Kartashev.

At first, he achieved a meeting with Kerensky, on which he offered to get in touch with a group of unnamed public figures, which has "real enough power", to provide his government with support on the right.

In response, Kornilov laid out to him his own terms for accepting dictatorial powers, which were previously discussed with the representative of Kerensky B.V. Savinkov (but without the participation of Lvov).

After that, Lvov arrived in Petrograd, where he met again with Kerensky, but already in the capacity of "truce" from Kornilov (which, again, this instruction did not give him), and presented an ultimatum to the prime minister "to transfer all power, military and civilian into the hands of the supreme commander".

There are different versions of the motives for Lvov's actions these days – from deliberate provocation to dislodge Kerensky to an unsuccessful attempt to return to big-time politics.

According to Nikita Sokolov, we will never know whether the Lvov demarche that followed at the end of August was a result of mental clouding or a cunningly conceived and masterly revenge, but its consequences were catastrophic.

The offensive of the Red Army forced the Lvov family to go to Siberia, where Vladimir Nikolaevich lived in Tomsk and Omsk, and moved away from political activity.

In November of the same year, he delivered a report in Paris on the topic "Soviet power in the struggle for Russian statehood", in which stated that only The Soviet government is capable of fulfilling the demands of life, it alone is the bearer of the Russian state idea ... for all other authorities, claiming all-Russian significance, are crushed by the wheel of the revolution.In 1922, Lvov returned to the USSR, where he became manager of the renovation of the Higher Church Administration.

G. M. Katkov writes in his fundamental research "The February Revolution": Vladimir Lvov emigrated with the White Army and in 1920 he found himself in Paris; he published a series of wild articles on the Kornilov affair; publication stopped only after, how V. D. Nabokov appealed to the newspaper's editorial office with a protest about absurd nonsense, which Lviv offers readers.

Somewhat later, he returned to the USSR, joined the Union of Atheists and began writing anti-religious articles in newspapersIn February 1927, he was arrested along with other employees of the publishing cooperative "Iskra" on charges of "economic counterrevolution."