1859Born on family estate, Ekaterinoslavskaia Guberniia, Russia. Is educated at Pazheskii Korpus (Corps des Pages) 18781882Serves in Guards Cavalry regiment18831885Serves as justice of the peace (mirovoi sud'ia) in Ekaterinoslavskaia Guberniia 18861891Serves as Marshal of the Nobility of Ekaterinoslavskaia Guberniia 19001906Serves as Head of the Ekaterinoslav Provincial Judiciary (Ekaterinoslavskaia Zemskaia Uprava) 1905Is a founding member of Octobrist Party (Soiuz 17 Octiabria)19061907Is elected to the Third and Fourth Duma and appointed memberof the Government Council (Gosudarstvennyi Sovet) 19111912Is elected president of the Third and Fourth Duma1917Is instrumental in persuading Emperor Nicholas II to abdicate. After the February Revolution resigns from the government and joins anti-Bolshevik forces in the south of Russia 1920Emigrates to Serbia1924Dies, Belgrade, SerbiaFrom the guide to the M. V. (Mikhail Vladimirovich) Rodzianko Papers, 1916-1923., (Hoover Institution Archives)