{{Short description|Russian politician and lawyer (1854–1933)}} {{Infobox officeholder | birth_name = Fedor Izmailovich Rodichev | name = Fedor Rodichev | image = Rodichev FI.jpg | birth_date = February 9, 1854 | death_date = February 28, 1933 | birth_place = St. Petersburg, Russian Empire | death_place = Lausanne, Switzerland | signature = Rodichev Signature.jpg | party = Constitutional Democratic Party | alma_mater = St. Petersburg University | caption = Rodichev in 1906 | children = 2 | spouse = {{marriage|Katerina Svechina|1880}} | office = Minister for Finnish Affairs under the Provisional Government | resting_place = Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery | successor = Carl Enckell | predecessor = Vladimir Markov | term_start = March 19, 1917 | term_end = April 8, 1917 | office1 = Member of the Provisional Committee of Duma | term_end1 = March 15, 1917 | term_start1 = March 12, 1917 | native_name = Федор Измайлович Родичев | native_name_lang = ru }} '''Fedor Izmailovich Rodichev''' (Russian: Федор Измайлович Родичев, February 9, 1854 – February 28, 1933) was a Russian politician and lawyer. A member and one of the leaders of the Constitutional Democratic Party,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Родичев Федор Измайлович |url=https://www.hrono.info/biograf/bio_r/rodichev_fi.php |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Hrono |language=Russian}}</ref> he was also a member in the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic in 1917.
== Early life and education == left|thumb|285x285px|Rodichev in 1910 Fyodor Izmailovich Rodichev was born on February 9, 1854, in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire{{Efn|Vesyegonsk District of the Tver province according to some sources}} to parents Izmail Dmitrievich and Sofya Nikolaevna (née Ushakova). His father was a member of the Tver Provincial Zemstvo.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Родичев, Фёдор Измайлович |url=https://stroi-archive.ru/stati/25799-rodichev-fedor-izmaylovich.html |access-date=2026-03-07 |website=Construction Archive |language=ru}}</ref>
Rodichev studied and graduated at the first St. Petersburg Vocational Gymnasium in 1870. He then studied Faculty of Law at the St. Petersburg University,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Rodichev F. I. (1854-1933), the public and political figure |url=https://www.encspb.ru/object/2803931962?lc=en |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia}}</ref> where he graduated in 1876.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=COLLECTIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS |url=https://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/inside/projects/findingaids/scans/pdfs/ldpd_bak_4077987.pdf |access-date=2026-03-06}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Родичев Федор Измайлович |trans-title=Rodichev Fedor Izmailovich |url=https://bioslovhist.spbu.ru/alumni/4817-rodicev-fedor-izmajlovic.html |access-date=2026-03-07 |website=Russian Biographies |language=Russian}}</ref>
== Career == Rodichev was appointed as a member of the Provisional Committee of Duma in March 1917 for a short period of time.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glossary of People: Ro |url=https://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/r/o.htm |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Marxists}}</ref> He was also appointed acting Minister for the Finnish Affairs under the Russian Provisional Government, where he preceded Vladimir Markov.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historical Documents |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1918Russiav01/persons |access-date=2026-03-07 |website=Office of the Historian}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Finland |url=https://www.worldstatesmen.org/Finland.html |access-date=2026-03-07 |website=World States Men}}</ref>
During this time, he participated in the White movement in Southern Russian in the October Revolution.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Родичев - Русская энциклопедия - Что значит, описание, фото, толкование, определение |url=https://my-dict.ru/dic/russkaya-enciklopediya/192959-rodichev/ |access-date=2026-03-07 |website=Russian Encyclopedia |language=ru-RU}}</ref> He was then succeeded by Carl Enckell in April of the same year.<ref name=":3" />
== Personal life and death == Rodichev met and married Katerina Aleksandrovna Svechina in sometime in 1880. They later had two daughters; Sofiia Bernatskaia and Aleksandra Rodicheva.<ref name=":1" />
After the October Revolution, Finland declared its independence from Russia in 1917. Rodichev hence went into exile to Lausanne, Switzerland with his family.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Papers, ca. 1700-1970 (bulk 1917-1970) |url=https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/28425660 |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Research Works OCLC |language=en}}</ref> Rodichev died in Lausanne on February 28, 1933. He was 79. He was later buried in the Bois-de-Vaux cemetery.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pares |first=Bernard |date=1933 |title=Fedor Rodichev |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4202868 |journal=The Slavonic and East European Review |volume=12 |issue=34 |pages=199–201 |issn=0037-6795}}</ref>
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Category:1854 births Category:1933 deaths Category:Russian Constitutional Democratic Party members Category:Ministers of the Russian Provisional Government Category:19th-century politicians from the Russian Empire