Raman Skirmunt

Raman Skirmunt
Chairmen of the People's Secretariat of the Belarusian Democratic Republic
In office
June 1918  August 1918
Serving with Jan Sierada
Preceded byJazep Varonka
Succeeded byAnton Luckievich
Personal details
Born(1868-05-07)7 May 1868
Parechcha, Pinsky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Pinsk District, Belarus)
Died7 October 1939
near Pinsk

Raman (Roman) Skirmunt (Belarusian: Раман Скірмунт; 7 May 1868 – 7 October 1939) was a Belarusian and Polesian statesman, aristocrat and landlord. Patron, significant landowner, vice-chairman (1907-1917, 1918-?) of the Minsk Agricultural Society. Deputy (1906) of the First State Duma of the Russian Empire; deputy (1910-1911) of the State Council of the Russian Empire from the Minsk province; (nominal) Prime Minister of the BNR (1918) — was not approved for the post of Prime Minister; senator of Poland (1930-1935). His cousin Konstanty Skirmunt was a notable Polish diplomat and minister of foreign affairs.