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History of the Moscow City authorities >> Heads of the Moscow City administration before 1917 >> losif Ivanovich MROZOVSKY - Troop Commander of the Moscow Military District (10 September 1915 – 1 March 1917), Moscow City Chief (2 October 1915 – 1 March 1917)

losif Ivanovich

MROZOVSKY

1857–1917 (?)

Troop Commander of the Moscow Military District

10 September 1915 – 1 March 1917

Moscow City Chief

2 October 1915 – 1 March 1917

Regular officer of the artillery. Participant of World War One.

On 10 September 1915 he was appointed troop commander of the Moscow military district, and on 2 October, after martial law was declared in Moscow and the surrounding district he was bestowed with the "rights and duties of the administrative powers of the civil department for the maintenance of state and public order".

The economic situation required solutions for such problems as the fixing of prices for housing and basic products, the provision of foodstuffs to the population, the combatting of speculation, the regulation of alcohol sales and the maintenance of public order in the city. All these problems were regulated by obligatory decrees of the commander.

The demographic changes which had been caused by the mass migration of the population and the accumulation of refugees, wounded and ill soldiers in Moscow led to a census being held in 1915 and 1917. The information thus received was used to settle problems which were vital for the city economy.

Muscovites learned about the revolution which had started in Petrograd from telegraphic and telephone messages. On 28 February 1917 the streets of the second capital were filled with demonstrators. Mrozovsky's reaction was to declare a state of siege in Moscow, although he refrained from using troops. "There is total revolution in Moscow. Troops are going over to the side of the revolution," he reported to the General Headquarters on the afternoon of 1 March 1917. After receiving instructions from the chairman of the State Duma, M.V Rodzyanko, and a message from the City Head, M.V. Chelnokov, that all power in the city had been transferred to the Committee of the State Duma, Mrozovsky submitted to the Provisional Government. On the evening of 1 March 1917 he and the Moscow City Chief, VN. Shebeko, were taken into custody. No information on the subsequent fate of I.I. Mrozovsky could be found.