N and Milyutin biography
His brothers, Vladimir, historian and professor of Russian state law, and Dmitry, Field Marshal, member of the State Council, left a noticeable mark in the history of Russia. It was brought up in a noble boarding house at Moscow University. To serve in the economic department of the Ministry of the Interior, where then the cases of urban economy, orders of public charity and food were concentrated, he entered into him to organize a special city department in the economic department, which had to introduce more effective grounds for managing the cities and their economy.
The new urban law for St. Petersburg, compiled with the participation and under the leadership of Milyutin, was put into effect in the provision of this, in which the beginning of self-government was first held in the city business, which always found a constant and energetic champion in the person of N. Milyutin, later served as a model for the transformation of the organization and management of the economy of other cities of the empire.
In general, he considered the collection of statistical data and their processing the key to successful administration. In P. Milyutin, he took part in the affairs of the then special committee established by then to discuss petitions on the provision of various general benefits and reliefs in the payment of state and banking debts formed due to the eastern war and a number of lean years.
At the same time, he began to participate in preparatory work on peasant reform. His ideas and activities even caused the hatred of reactionaries and people who wanted to slow down the reform, but thanks to the intercession of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich and his aunt, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, Milyutin resisted his post. The emperor himself spoke of him as a “red” man, which should be watched.
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Lansky S. Lanskaya entrusted Milyutin, assuring the sovereign, which could be responsible for him as for himself. Under his influence, this legislative commission was created under the modest name of the editorial commission, which became the main lever in the future movement. The commission worked from March to October and did the work incredible in size and difficulties during this period, considering all the projects of the provincial committees and a lot of private projects and notes.
The meaning of Milyutin was especially affected when, after the death of Rostovtsev, by many it was perceived as coagulation of activities to liberate the peasants. However, the hopes of serfs, who dreamed of cardinal concessions in their favor, were not destined to be realized. The energy of Panin made it possible to defend the main provisions accepted by the commission on peasant land ownership in the form of unlimited use of land and public self -government of peasants.
However, the hatred and slander of the serfs from the success of the work only intensified. On February 19, Milyutin did not participate in the implementation of the legislative act; In April, under the influence of the reaction party, both Lansky and Milyutin, appointed by the senator, took place. Milyutin went abroad, where he lived for two years. In, when the rebellion in Poland broke out, Milyutin was personally called by Alexander II to St.
Petersburg and sent to Poland to hold a number of reforms. He was appointed head of the Chancellery of the Kingdom of Poland. Soloviev, Yu. Samarin and others. The Regulation on the construction of peasants in Poland received the highest statement according to the projects of Milyutin. This reform was carried out on the same main grounds as peasant reform with some changes.
Then appointed to the post of state secretary in the affairs of the Kingdom of Poland, Milyutin led the matter of the further merger of the latter with the Russian Empire. He undertook a thorough review of the educational charter and reorganized the educational case, prepared a judicial reform, defended the idea of an agreement with Pope. When, after the meeting, where Milyutin managed to insist on the abolition of Concordat with Rome, he returned home, he was struck by a nervous blow.
For three years, Milyutin was abroad, then returned to Moscow and lived here for another two years. He died on January 26 on February 7 in Moscow.