Background
The count Petr Apraksin was born on 3rd January 1876 in the Nervi town, Italy. Noble by birth. He was the son of the former Vladimir province leader of the nobility Count Nikolai Petrovich Apraksin and Nadezhda Feodorovna Heidenreich.
Master of the court state and public figure actual state councilor
The count Petr Apraksin was born on 3rd January 1876 in the Nervi town, Italy. Noble by birth. He was the son of the former Vladimir province leader of the nobility Count Nikolai Petrovich Apraksin and Nadezhda Feodorovna Heidenreich.
He graduated from the 1st Moscow Cadet Corps, from Page Corps (1896) and from St. Petersburg Archeological Institute (1902).
In 1896-1901 Apraksin was in the military service. In 1901-1907 he was an official of the Chancery of the Council of Ministers. Apraksin participated in Russo-Japanese war and was sent with a medical detachment of the community of St. Eugene to the combat theater. In 1907-1911, he was a Voronezh Vice-Governor. In 1908-1912 and 1914-1916 he was a Chairman of the Voronezh Scientific Archival Commission. In 1910-1911, Apraksin was Chairman of the Committee for the construction of the provincial museum. Since 1909 he was a Landowner of Bobrovsky parish, and in 1911-1913 – a landowner of Taurida province. Since 1923 he lived in Belgium and was a Chairman of the Historical-Genealogical Society. In 1945 he became a Chairman of the Committee for the construction of the Temple-Monument in the name of the Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II.
He took side with the White movement and since 1920 was in immigration.
He was a member of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church 1917-1918.
