Dmitry Bludov

Imperial Russian official

Count Dmitry Nikolayevich Bludov (Russian: Граф Дми́трий Никола́евич Блу́дов; 1785–1864) was an Imperial Russian official who filled a variety of posts under Nicholas I - Deputy Education Minister (1826–28), Minister of Justice (1830–31, 1838–39), Minister of the Interior (1832–38), Chief of the Second Section (1839–62). Alexander II appointed him President of the Academy of Sciences (1855) and Chairman of the State Council (1862).²

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Born Apr 16, 1785, died 1863.¹