D.I. Pestrzhetsky - one of the creators of the Stolypin Agrarian Reform
The article examines the activities of Dmitry Illarionovich Pestrzhetsky, who during the Stolypin agrarian reform held the post of assistant manager of the Zemstvo Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and was also a member of the Council of the Ministers of Internal Affairs under P.A. Stolypin. D. I. Pestrzhetsky, adhering to liberal views on the issue of land reform in Russia, was a major expert on the peasant and resettlement issues, took an active part in the legislative development of the Stolypin reform. He announced the main directions of future land reform at the First Congress of Authorized Noble Societies in May, 1906. Also, D.I. Pestrzhetsky tried to extend the Stolypin legislation to Siberia in the direction of the development of private peasant land ownership in this region of Russia. He was a staunch supporter of the implementation of the idea of free peasant resettlement beyond the Urals, as he considered the colonization of Siberia as one of the main ways to get rid of the peasant land shortage and, at the same time, to save the noble landowners land ownership in the territory of European Russia. In 1910, D.I. Pestrzhetsky together with P.A. Stolypin made an inspection trip to Siberia in order to review the results of the resettlement policy. After the October Revolution of 1917, D.I. Pestrzhetsky took part in the elections to the Constituent Assembly. While in exile, he promoted the ideas of Stolypin's agrarian reform.