Pyotr Stolypin quotes

Pyotr Stolypin was a Russian statesman and reformer, serving as Prime Minister under Tsar Nicholas II. Known for his ambitious agricultural reforms and efforts to stabilize the Russian Empire, he also implemented harsh measures against political dissent. He remains a controversial figure in Russian history, symbolizing both progress and repression. Here are 4 of his quotes:

People sometimes forget about their national tasks; but such peoples perish, they turn into land, into fertilizer, on which other, stronger nations grow and grow stronger.

Pyotr Stolypin

"People sometimes forget about their national tasks; but such peoples perish, they turn into land, into fertilizer, on which other, stronger nations grow and grow stronger." - May 5, 1908; The State Duma; P. A. Stolypin's speech about Finland.

Pyotr Stolypin

After 1917 the most hardened followers of the Tsar would come to denounce Stolypin as an upstart bureaucrat whose dangerous reform policies had only served to undermine the sacred principles of autocracy. But to his admirers - and there are many of them in post-Soviet Russia - Stolypin was the greatest statesmen Russia ever had, the one man who could have saved the country from the revolution and the civil war.

Pyotr Stolypin