Career
Pyotr was an honoured citizen who worked as an engineer and later as a director of a paper factory not far from Saint St. Petersburg. Both Gorbunov"s parents owned a number of middle-sized houses. In 1911, they bought an estate of about 1,650 acres (67 km2) in Yamburg.
Pyotr Mikhailovich was a liberal who founded a school for the children of workers at his factory.
Gorbunov was secretary of the Council of People"s Commissars of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and wrote of the period immediately following the Bolshevik seizure of power:
In 1937 he was Chief Executive Officer of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Gorbunov was indicted for espionage, sentenced to death and executed in 1938.
He was rehabilitated in 1954.
