BEZOBRAZOV, Vladitnir Pavlovich, bie'-abra-zof, Russian political economist and publicist: b. 3 Jan. 1828; d. 29 Aug. 1889. He received his education in the Imperial Aleks ander College. In the governmental service he spent a few years in almost every department and finally became a senator. In recognition of his activities in the field of political econ omy the Academy of Science awarded him the honor of regular membership. He became a lecturer in political economy at the Imperial Aleksander College and gave also private in struction, in that subject, to Grand Dukes Aleksyei and Serge Aleksandrovich, Nikolay and Konstantin Konstantinovich. In recogni tion of these services he was awarded the order of Alexander Nevslci. In the course of many years the imperial governinent availed itself of Bezobrazov's practical knowledge of finance and political economy. In these fields he had
an opportunity of applying effectively his own theones which bear largely the stamp of Adam Smith. In his pamphlets on 'Inspections of Factories> he severely critized the established order of things in the industrial institutions of the empire. As a statesman and a politician he was a moderate Liberal. Disregarding constitu tional problems he severely attacked the form alism and bureaucratic methods then common in Russian home affairs. In his noteworthy treatise on 4Government and Society' (1882) he laid stress on the indispensability of an or ganic link between the local governments and the central power. It was upon his initiative and under his supervision that the Sbornik Gorudarstv Znania (Magazine of Political Sciences) was established and published for six years (1874-80). .