Raman Skirmunt

Raman (Roman) Skirmunt (; 7 May 1868 – 7 October 1939) was a Belarusian and Polesian statesman, aristocrat and landlord. Patron, significant landowner, vice-chairman (1907-1917, 1918-?) of the Minsk Agricultural Society. Deputy (1906) of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire; deputy (1910-1911) of the State Council of the Russian Empire from the Minsk province; (nominal) Prime Minister of the BNR (1918) — was not approved for the post of Prime Minister; senator of Poland (1930-1935). His cousin Konstanty Skirmunt was a notable Polish diplomat and minister of foreign affairs. Early years Raman Skirmunt was born in the village Parechcha in the Pinsky Uyezd of the Minsk Governorate (present-day Pinsk District of Belarus) in the family of Alexander Alexandrovich-Izidorovich Skirmunt (1830—1909), the representative of into the local noble family of the Catholic Lithuanian noble family of the Skirmunts. Roman Skyrmunt wrote about his origins: His father was the son of Alexander Shymanovich Skirmunt (1798-1870), a prominent landowner of Pinsk District, a well-known entrepreneur-manufacturer and Pinsk District Marshall (1829-1835), and his mother was the daughter of Zyanon Janovich Lubanski (about 1807-1854), Viley District Marshall (1835 —1841, 1844—1847), from his wife Marta Lyavkovich. He was the seventh child in the family, Teofila (1857) and Alexander (1858) were born in Albrechtov, and Branislava (1864), Yusuf (1862), Wanda (1866) and Vaclav (1867) were born in Parechcha. Alena (1869), Felicia (1873) and Zenon (1874) were born during Roman's lifetime, but Vaclav died tragically in 1872. On April 30, Roman was baptized in the Pinsk parish church by priest Vikentius Swidersky, the godparents were the landowner Kazimir Tvardovsky and his sister Maria Skirmunt from Tvardowski, the wife of Henrik Skirmunt from Moladov, the uncle of the newborn.