Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin, a notable statesman of the Russian Empire, was born on April 2, 1862, in Dresden and died on September 5, 1911, in Kyiv. He held the positions of State Secretary of His Imperial Majesty in 1908, Actual State Councillor in 1904, and Hofmeister in 1906. Stolypin was the governor of Grodno and Saratov provinces, Minister of Internal Affairs, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, as well as a member of the State Council. His sayings, such as "You will not scare us!", "First calmness, then reforms", and "They need great upheavals, we need a great Russia", became famous.

An interesting fact from his family tree: one of his grandfather's sisters was married to Mikhail Vasilyevich Arsenyev, and their daughter Maria was the mother of the poet M. Yu. Lermontov, making Stolypin a second cousin of Lermontov. In 1884, while a student, 22-year-old Pyotr got married, which was unusual for that time. The marriage occurred after a tragedy: his older brother Mikhail was killed in a duel with Prince Shakhovsky. There is a legend that Stolypin later shot at his brother's killer and was wounded in the right hand, which thereafter functioned poorly. Mikhail was engaged to Olga Borisovna Neidgardt, and on his deathbed, he placed Pyotr's hand on his fiancée's hand. Stolypin soon asked for her hand from her father, who, despite Pyotr's youth, gave his consent. Their marriage was happy, and they had five daughters and one son.

Stolypin's life was the target of 11 assassination attempts. The last one, organized by Dmitry Bogrov in Kyiv, proved fatal. Stolypin was wounded and died a few days later. He was buried in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.