Background
Vladimir Pavlovich Bezobrazov was born on January 15, 1828, in Vladimir, Russian Federation.
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Vladimir Pavlovich Bezobrazov was born on January 15, 1828, in Vladimir, Russian Federation.
Vladimir Pavlovich graduated from Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in 1847.
Vladimir Pavlovich in 1860s edited the Ministry of State Properties Magazine and later the Geographical Society Herald. As a Ministry of Finance official, he took an active part in organizing and monitoring the Russian regional bank system. In the 1860s, at the height of the Alexander II-induced reforms, he became one of the initiators and leaders of the Russian Geographical Society's Political and Economical committee. In 1868 Vladimir Pavlovich was elected the Moscow Governorate's glasny; in 1885 he became a member of the Russian Senate.
Vladimir Pavlovich taught political economy and financial law at the Alexandrovsky Lyceum and in the 1870s tutored four members of the Russian monarch's family, Grand Dukes Alexey Alexandrovich, Nikolai Konstantinovich, Sergey Alexandrovich, and Konstantin Konstantinovich.
In 1873 he, part of the team of eleven renowned lawyers, co-founded the Institut de Droit International in Gent. The same year he started publishing the Russian Knowledge Anthology, featuring articles and essays by leading Russian economists and lawyers.
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In his political views, he was a liberal. During the preparation of the reforms of the 1860s, Vladimir Pavlovich opposed serfdom and advocated bourgeois reforms in the interests of the landholders. On theoretical questions, he adhered to the standpoint of vulgar political economy.