Vladimir Theological Seminary Saint Petersburg Theological Academy
Occupations
Reformer
Lawmaker
Children
Elisabeth Bagréeff-Speransky
Family
House of Speransky [ru]
Honours
Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (1812-01-13) Order of St. Vladimir 1st Class (1826) Order of St. Andrew (1833)
State Secretary of the Russian Empire
In office January 13, 1810 – March 29, 1812
Monarch
Alexander I
Preceded by
office created
Succeeded by
Alexander Semyonovich Shishkov
Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Спера́нский; 12 January 1772 – 23 February 1839)[1] was a Russian reformist during the reign of Alexander I of Russia, to whom he was a close advisor. Honorary member of the Free Economic Society (1801) and the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1819). He later served under Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and was Active Privy Councillor (1827).[2] Speransky is referred to as the father of Russian liberalism.[citation needed]
^12 January [O.S. 1 January] 1772 – 23 February [O.S. 11 February] 1839
Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Спера́нский; 12 January 1772 – 23 February 1839) was a Russian reformist during the...
the Russian Empire. In the first years of the reign of Alexander I, MikhailSperansky still remained in the background, although he prepared some documents...
party and it represented in regional parliament in Yaroslavl Oblast. MikhailSperansky is sometimes called the father of Russian liberalism.[citation needed]...
empress Catherine the Great. Stephens's daughter Elizabeth married MikhailSperansky, who would become an advisor to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, in 1798...
Czartoryski. MikhailSperansky took an active part in the Committee, although he was not a formal member. The reforms proposed by Speransky were to introduce...
primary co-authors of the constitution. The text was inspired by MikhailSperansky's constitutional project and the current French constitution. The USAID-funded...
of the Russian Empire (Свод законов Российскои империи), penned by MikhailSperansky. These laws could be altered or repealed by the emperor. However,...
during the French invasion of Russia, founder of the Rumyantsev Museum MikhailSperansky, chief reformer during the reign of Alexander I, father of Russian...
monument was held in 1859. An architect Viktor Hartmann and an artist Mikhail Mikeshin were declared the winners. Mikeshin's design called for a grandiose...
Jerzy Czartoryski, Counts Viktor Kochubey and Nikolay Novosiltsev. MikhailSperansky took an active part in the Committee, although he wasn't a formal...
the Russian Empire had been first codified under the leadership of MikhailSperansky, witchcraft and sorcery still remained a subject of the secular Penal...
trading point between Russia and the Qing Empire. The 1820 reforms of MikhailSperansky established indirect rule over Buryatia by codifying the local clan...
system was established in Finland, drafted in part by the liberal MikhailSperansky. The new grand duchy would be governed by a Government Council, later...
(up to 1832), when its articles were revised under the direction of MikhailSperansky. The code consolidated Russia's slaves and free peasants into a new...
circles. Various projects of emancipation reforms were prepared by MikhailSperansky, Nikolay Mordvinov, and Pavel Kiselyov. However, conservative or reactionary...
Novgorod. Gerstner's proposal was evaluated by a commission headed by MikhailSperansky. The commission found the project feasible and recommended starting...
the metallurgy of precious metals in Russia. 2011: 1541, M:1773. MikhailSperansky (1772, Cherkutino village, Vladimir Guberniya – 1839, Saint Petersburg)...
arrangement" made a year and a half earlier. Alexander's usual speechwriter MikhailSperansky was unaware of this. Golitsyn instructed Filaret to lock the signed...
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