Aleksandr Ivanovich Konovalov ( Russian : Алекса?ндр Ива?нович Конова?лов ) (17 September 1875, Moscow ? 28 January 1949, Paris , France ; Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois Cemetery ) was a Russian Kadet politician and entrepreneur. One of Russia's biggest textile manufacturers, he became a leader of the liberal, business-oriented Progressist Party and was a member of the Progressive Bloc in the Fourth Duma .

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During World War I he was vice president of Alexander Guchkov 's Military-Industrial Committee , and after the February Revolution he became Minister of Trade and Industry in the Provisional Government . He was an active member of the irregular freemasonic lodge, the Grand Orient of Russia’s Peoples . ^[1] After the October Revolution he emigrated to France , where he was a leader of leftist Russian emigres; at the start of World War II he moved to the United States .

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• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Biographies with pictures (Russian)
• Michael T. Florinsky (ed.), McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union (1961), p. 284.