Pavel Ryabushinsky

Pavel Pavlovich Ryabushinsky , was a Russian entrepreneur and liberal politician.

Ryabushinsky was born into an Old Believer family that had prospered in the 19th century like other scions of such merchant families, he had a good education and was anxious both to be accepted into high society and to improve his country. In 1907 he began publishing his own newspaper, Utro Rossii , to propagate his liberal views. Rebuffed by the Constitutional Democrats, who did not want to be associated with the narrow class interests of industrialists, he and his fellow Old Believer Alexander Konovalov established contact with the Right Kadets associated with Peter Struve and began the Economic Discussions of 190912, one of the few sustained collaborations between entrepreneurs and intellectuals in Russian history . He and Konovalov founded the Progressist Party, which in 1915 became part of the Progressive Bloc that same year he was elected Chairman of the Moscow Stock Exchange Committee and was appointed to head the Moscow War Industry Committee. This organisation exercised consi

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