TREPOV D.F. (1855-1906), MAJOR GENERAL Certificate issued by the Chancellery of the Moscow Chief of Police, Executive Department. July 16, 1904, no. 12535

Form of the Ministry of the Interior. With the stamp of the Moscow Chief of Police and signed by Major General D.F. Trepov. Issued to Ivan Nikolaevich Zhuchkov, who was entering military service, to certify that he ‘had never been tried or under investigation, nor noticed by the police in any reprehensible acts’. 35 x 23 cm (frame 38 x 25.5 cm). Dmitry Fyodorovich Trepov (1855-1906), Major General, served as Moscow Chief of Police. He was one of the most active fighters against the revolutionary movement and socialism. Deputy Minister of the Interior, head of the police and commander of the Separate Corps of Gendarmes (April 1905), at the most critical time, in October 1905, Trepov was appointed Commandant of the Peterhof Palace and head of the guard of Nicholas II.