Ivan Pokrovsky

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Ivan Kornil'yevich Pokrovsky (Russian: Иван Корнильевич Покровский; born 1845 in Chelyabinsk, Russian Empire; died after 1912) was a junior army officer (podporuchik), a provincial secretary, and an entrepreneur. He served as a deputy in the Chelyabinsk City Duma and acted as a party agent for the Constitutional Democratic Party in Chelyabinsk. Pokrovsky was a deputy in the Third Imperial Duma from 1907 to 1912. He lived and worked in Belgium for a while, then owned gold mines in the Urals and co-owned a distillery and a sugar factory. His brother Vladimir Pokrovsky was the mayor of Chelyabinsk.