Moravskii, Valerian Ivanovich, 1884-1940

Biographical Note

• 1884: Born, Russia
• Graduates from a theological seminary in Bessarabia and the Institute of Agronomy in St. Petersburg. Attends the Academy of Oriental Languages in St. Petersburg
• 1905 - 1906 : Member of Socialist Revolutionary Party
• 1908 - 1918 : Works on staff of newspaper Rech' as head of Far Eastern section
• 1914 - 1915 : Works for Ministry of Ways and Communications
• 1916: Joins Ministry of Agriculture
• 1917: Appointed head of Ministry of Food Supply in Provisional Government under Kerensky
• 1917, Dec.: Appointed Secretary General of Siberian Provincial Council
• 1918: Elected State Secretary of Siberian Provincial Duma. Member of the Provisional Government of Autonomous Siberia. Elected to the Council of Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Organizations of Autonomous Siberia
• 1922: Appointed Minister of Finance and Minister of Trade and Industry in second (non-Bolshevik) Siberian Government
• 1922: Emigrates to China. Lives in Shanghai and travels extensively in Manchuria and Japan
• 1925: Elected Vice-President of Council of Plenipotentiary Representatives of the Organizations of Autonomous Siberia
• 1928: Becomes Acting President of Council of Plenipotentiary Representatives of Autonomous Siberia
• 1942: Dies, Shanghai, China

From the guide to the Valerian Ivanovich Moravskii Papers, 1917-1937, (Hoover Institution Archives)