Alexander Dubrovin

Alexander Ivanovich Dubrovin (1855 to after 1921) was a Russian physician turned far-right politician and a leader of the Union of the Russian People, the monarchist movement associated with the Black Hundreds. Born in Kamyshlov in the Perm Governorate according to recent research, he gave up medical practice to oppose what he saw as creeping liberalism among the aristocracy, handed his Russian Assembly to the new Union in 1905 and headed its directorate. He sat in the State Duma of the Russian Empire while holding to absolutist views, and the sources describe him as antisemitic and anti-Masonic. After the movement's majority came under Nikolai Markov in 1910 his faction around the newspaper Russkoe znamya faded. The Cheka arrested him in 1920 and sentenced him to be shot, but his actual fate remains disputed. His placement here reflects his role as a party leader and legislator, not a head of government.