Shostakovich Boleslav Petrovich

In Tomsk in 1866, after serving his sentence in the Peter and Paul Fortress, Boleslav Shostakovich, a native of Yekaterinburg and son of a veterinarian, found himself as a political exile, having been brought to the investigation and trial in the Ishutin-Karakozov case. He was accepted into service as a scribe in the provincial administration, and three years later began serving as an accountant in the city administration. In December 1872, he was exiled to Narym. In Narym, he studied political economy, geography, botany, accounting, and filled in the gaps in his education. He was also engaged in research of the Northern Ob region, and his wife taught the children to read and write.

In April 1877, the family returned to Tomsk. For 10 years, he worked as an accountant in the office of the Petrov and Mikhailov trading company and simultaneously took part in local city government. He was elected as a member of the Tomsk City Duma and a member of the city council, and was the initiator of many public initiatives. Shostakovich repeatedly spoke in the local press on various issues of city life: on the construction of pavements and city improvement in the city of Tomsk, on the fair in the cities of Tomsk and Narym. At his suggestion, the "News of the Tomsk City Public Administration" began to be published in Tomsk. In 1885, Boleslav Shostakovich was elected mayor, but the election was not approved by the Minister of Internal Affairs.

In 1887 he moved to Irkutsk, where he served as the manager of the local branch of the Siberian Trade Bank, was elected as a member of the Irkutsk City Duma and city council, and even briefly held the position of Irkutsk city mayor, and in 1906 he was nominated for deputy of the State Duma. B. P. Shostakovich died on January 22, 1919 and was buried in the Jerusalem Cemetery in Irkutsk. The grave has not survived.

Grandfather of the outstanding composer Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich.