Dmitry Pavlovich Yakovlev

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Dmitry Pavlovich Yakovlev – an active zemstvo figure. He was born on March 10, 1831, in the seltso (small village) of Kottsyno in Shuysky Uyezd on the estate of his grandfather Dmitry Alexandrovich Oshanin. Because of poverty he could not study at a state institution, received home education, and later pursued self-education.  

He served in the Kineshma District Court, and later in the Ministry of State Domains. During the last ten years of his forty-year service he was manager of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk and Kostroma branches of the State Bank. He rose to the rank of State Councillor and was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd class. 

D. P. Yakovlev was known as an active zemstvo figure: he was repeatedly elected a member (glasny) of the Kineshma Zemstvo (1871–1883, 1892–1904) and from 1872 to 1883 served as chairman of the Kineshma zemstvo board, simultaneously performing the duties of honorary justice of the peace. In Kineshma he built a two-storey stone house on Nikolskaya Street, which burned down along with the rest of Kineshma during the fire of 1890.