Pyotr Stolypin. The Last Russian Nobleman

The dowager empress of Russia, Maria Feodorovna, called Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin "the last Russian nobleman." The insightful Danish woman discerned in this unremarkable, poor provincial a strong, powerful nature capable of addressing state problems and taking responsibility for the fate... of an entire empire. Moreover, not in search of personal gain, but rather drawing fire upon himself. The outstanding reformer during the height of anarchy saw two main tasks — to pacify the country in a turbulent era of military defeat and revolution, as well as to solve the land question, which had plunged it into riotous frenzy for centuries. We must give Russia twenty years of external and internal tranquility, and then the "Russian steamroller" in the world will already be unstoppable. But on this path, the reformer always remained alone, for at the throne there were simply no personalities of a scale similar to Stolypin. Perhaps this is why the empire collapsed so quickly after his death.