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Nikolay Protasov

Russian general

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ2062497 ↗
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Count Nikolay Aleksandrovich Protasov (27 December 1798 – 16 January 1855) was a Russian general and Ober-Procurator (Attorney-General) of the Most Holy Synod from 24 February 1836 to 16 January 1855.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nikolay Protasov” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.