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Dmitrii Obolenskii

Prince Dmitrii Aleksandrovich Obolenski (Дмитрий Александрович Ободенский) was a Russian statesman, born in 1822.

After graduating from the Imperial School of Jurisprudence, he first in the Moscow senate, then on the judicial establishments in Kazan, Tula and St. Petersburg. He was a commisariat director in the sea ministry for more than ten years, becoming director of the customs department. Early in the 1860s he presided on a commission for regulation of the Russian press, and from 1872 he was a member of the Council of State.

Obolenskii was also Vice-President of the Russian Musical Society, and Tchaikovsky wrote to him in 1873 concerning a competition organised by the society, which was eventually won by Tchaikovsky's opera Vakula the Smith.

Dmitrii Obolenskii died in 1881.