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Vyacheslav PleveVyacheslav Konstantinovich Pleve (Plhve) (Вячесла́в Константи́нович Пле́ве)(1846, Meshchovsk, Kaluga Guberniya - July 15 (J), 1904, St Petersburg) was the director of the tsarist Russian Police and later Minister of the Interior. His exact date of birth is unknown. He probably comes from a German family and was raised in Warsaw. After studying law he became a prosecutor before joining the MVD's Department of Police in 1881, also in charge of Okhranka. Intelligent, but unrelentingly harsh, anti-Semitic and deeply conservative, he worked energetically in political counterintelligence. He is credited with the destruction of numerous revolutionary and liberal groups. It appears Plhve did not see a difference in degrees of opposition, and his actions forced the unification of ideological enemies in the Osvoboditel'noe dvizhenie - a significant force in the 1905 disturbances. In April 1902, following the assassination of Dmitry Sipyagin, he was appointed Minister of the Interior. After a brief attempt at conciliation with the zemstvo conservatives failed, he relapsed - encouraging the pogroms of 1903 and attempting to split the young labour movement with zubatovshchina, police-run unions. Plhve was a obvious target for revolutionaries. He survived one attack in 1903 and two in 1904 before the Socialist-Revolutionary Combat Group succeeded, this was despite the organization being headed by Evno Azef - a police agent. On July 15, 1904 a bomb was thrown into Plhve's carriage by Yegor Sozonov, utterly destroying him. He was replaced as Minister by Prince Peter Svyatopolk-Mirsky. Pleve, Vyacheslav Pleve, Vyacheslav
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