Entered the service of the Russian Imperial government in 1892, and in 1914-17 was the last Finance Minister of the Empire. After the 1917 revolution he lived in England, where he became managing director of the Anglo-International Bank, and was knighted in 1935.
Sir Peter Bark (Petr L'vovich Bark) (1869-1937) was a banker and financial expert and a member of the post-revolutionary Russian migr community in Great Britain