Hi everyone !

(First I want to let you know that I'm not a native English speaker, thank you for understanding)

I'm a law student in Brussels and, with fellow students for a legal theory class, doing researches about Maximilien Philonenko, a lecturer of international private law in the 1940-1950's at the Free University of Brussels. Philonenko was an attorney and the mentor of several famous lawyers in Belgium. As such, he had a major influence in the development of Belgian case law and legal theory.

He was born in 1885 from an aristocratic family from Poltova and graduated from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. We learned from hearsay that he had an active role in the Russian revolution :

- Trotsky mentionned him in his book "History of the Russian revolution" as a member of the Duma in 1919;

- All French or Belgian papers speak about him as a Russian revolutionary, linked to Kerensky and Kornilov, without more details ;

- The diary of Catherine Sayn-Wittgenstein says he was member of the VIIIth army as a member of the military staff of Kornilov.

We don't know exactly what role he had in the Revolution (if he actually had one) or the informations we find are just hearsay. In this regard, I wanted to ask you :

- have you ever read something about him by any chance?

- Do you know where I could find serious sources about the members of Kornilov's military staff ?

- Do you know where I could learn information from the Duma of 1919 ? One paper I read mentioned a Duma in Arkhangel, I don't know if it's correct.

Thanks !