Evgraf Petrovich Kovalevsky

Background

Evgraf Kovalevsky was born on December 30, 1865 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. He was born in a noble family.

Education

Evgraf Petrovich graduated from the Law department of Moscow University (1889).

Career

Evgraf Petrovich was a head of mission of the Ministry of Public Education, chairman of the commission on measures to protect the monuments of antiquity (1911-1912), board member of the academic group in Paris (since 1920), chairman of the Pushkin Commission (1938).

Often he lived in a family estate (the village of Yutanovka, Biryuchsky district), he visited the town of Valuyki (the last time was in August 1919). Since 1920 he was in exile. He died in Medon, near the city of Paris.

Achievements

• One of the initiators of the law on universal primary education. Active participant in the campaign to organize a university in Voronezh in the years 1906-1915. Trustee of the school in the village Yutanovka Biryuchsky County.

Works

• book

  • Public Education and Church Heritage in the III State Duma

    1912

Membership

Member of the town council of Biryuchsky county and Voronezh provincial zemstvos (since 1890), Commissioner of the Russian government at the World Exhibition in Paris (1900), Member of the political party "The Union of October 17th", Member of the III-rd and IV-th State Duma, The member of the Octobrists faction, since 1914 - the member of Zemstvo-Octobrists faction, Member of the Progressive Bloc (since 1915)

Connections

Evgraf Petrovich was the father of Peter Evgrafovich Kovalevsky, Maxim Evgrafovich Kovalevsky, Evgraf Evgrafovich Kovalevsky.