Education
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
Saint St. Petersburg State University.
After graduating from the University of Saint St. Petersburg, he entered the Ministry of Justice. He rose to the position of Public Prosecutor, and eventually Chairman of a District Court. In 1906, he was appointed Chairman of the Kharkov Court of Appeals.
In 1906, he was appointed Assistant Minister of the Interior in charge of the Police under Stolypin until he was appointed Imperial Secretary in 1909.
He was appointed Minister of the Interior in 1911 after Stolypin"s assassination on the recommendation of Kokovstsov. He left the position of Minister in December 1912 after the Lena Minefields incident and disagreements over regulation of the press about a sexual connection between Grigori Rasputin and the Tsarina.
He was briefly appointed Minister of Justice in July 1916, a post he lost in December, hindering the investigation as he had given Felix Yusupov permission to leave the city. After the February Revolution he was arrested on March 1, 1917 released and re-arrested in October 1917.
He was executed by the Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation in a Moscow prison in 1919.
Makarov received an appointment to the State Council where he was aligned with the political right wing parties.