People-Russia

Ministry of internal Affairs influenced
Favored reform with Slavophile tradition
1859-61largely responsible drafting terms of emancipation of the serfs
Supported establishment of Zemstva

Trained in military academy and earned rep as military scholar
Analysed reason for defeat in Crimean war
Impact military reforms
Views shared by other members of Russian intelligentsia serfdom help Russia back economically, weakening 'Great Power Status' and morally wrong

Over-Procurator of Holy Synod 1865-1880
Joined the state council-1860
Minister of Education-1866-1882
Minister of Internal affairs and Chief of the gendarmerie-1882-1889
Elected president of St Petersburg Academy of Science 1882
Wrote books Russian History