Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev

Who was Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev?

Andrei Ivanovich Shingarev or Shingaryov was a Russian doctor, publicist and politician. He was a Duma deputy and one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic party.

Shingorev's mother, Zinaida Nikanorovna was born into an aristocratic family. His father, Ivan Andreevich Shingarev, was a prosperous merchant, first in the Tombov region and then in Voronezh. When Andrei Shingarev was ten years old, he entered a secondary school in Voronezh, graduating in 1887. Then he continued his studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University in the faculty of physics and mathematics and graduated in 1891, in 1894 getting a further degree in medicine.

In 1895-1897, Shingarev was a practicing doctor. In 1898 he became a country doctor and started managing the Voronezh medical district. Shingarev was published in many newspapers and magazines, for example in the newspaper The Russian Idea. He participated in the 1905 Russian Revolution while he was in Voronezh.

Shingarev was several times elected to the State Duma. After the February revolution, he led the food committee; in the first Provisional Government he was the Minister of Agriculture, and later he held the post of Minister of Finance.