Alexander Bulygin was the Minister of Interior

Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs

The Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del is the interior ministry of Russia. Its predecessor was founded in 1802 by Alexander I in Imperial Russia...

 of Russia

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 from February 1905 until October 1905.

Biography

Graduate of the Imperial School of Law

Imperial School of Jurisprudence

The Imperial School of Jurisprudence was, along with the Page Corps, the most prestigious school for noble boys in Saint Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire....

. Began work in the Tambov district court, 1871; held various administrative offices including that of Governor of Kaluga (1887), of Moscow (1893), and assistant to the Governor-General of Moscow, Grand
Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich

Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia

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 (1902).

Bulygin replaced Prince Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii

Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii

Prince Pyotr Dmitrievich Sviatopolk-Mirskii was a Russian politician and police official, Minister of the Interior in 1904–1905. He was the son of the general Dmitry Ivanovitch Sviatopolk-Mirskii and father of the literary historian D. S. Mirsky....

 on January 20, 1905 after strikes and protests in January. He is most notable for the so-called 'Bulygin Constitution', developed in response to the 1905 Russian Revolution

Russian Revolution of 1905

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. It was issued in August 1905, and proposed a new consultative body. It did not satisfy those who wanted a fully legislative assembly, and Bulygin's opponents, discontent, advocated the strikes of September and October. After these events, Bulygin was sacked on October 17, 1905 and replaced by the reactionary Petr Nikolayevich Durnovo. After resignation he returned to the State Council.

He was shot and killed by Bolsheviks September 5, 1919.