Alexander Titoff

Born in Rostov, Yaroslavl province, son of the merchant paleographer and ethnographer Andrew Alexandrovich Titov (1844 - 1911). He studied at the German school of the Lutheran Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Moscow. He then entered the faculty of physics and mathematics at Moscow University, from where he was expelled in 1899 for having participated in student demonstrations. He continued his studies in Germany where he graduated from the University of Leipzig, with a doctorate in chemistry in 1903. Returning to Russia in 1904, he was a professor at the University of Yourev (in Estonia, later Tartou) then in Moscow in 1907. In 1911, he became a professor of chemistry at the People's University of Moscow and then in Warsaw.

He inherits a large commercial and industrial company with numerous subsidiaries in Russia.

He was at the origin of the creation in 1906 of the Popular Socialist party. He was elected to the municipal councils of Rostov and Moscow as well as to the Zemstvo of the Yaroslavl province.

During the revolution of 1905-1907, he participated in the Organizing Committee of the Peasant Union and demonstrated in many cities across the country, providing material aid to the Socialist-Revolutionaries (SR).

During the First World War he organized the supply of medicines to the army as part of the Zemgor Union of Russia. In 1917 he was part of the provisional government as deputy to the minister of food, but resigned in September following a conflict with Kerensky. Member of the Constituent Assembly dissolved in January 1918, he fought the Bolsheviks in southern Russia. He emigrated to France in 1920, created paramedical companies, and taught physics and mathematics at the University. After the Second World War he was part of an association for rapprochement with Soviet Russia and chaired the Society of Russian Chemists in Paris.

He rests with Jeanne Duniau (1886-1925), Françoise Navarron (1864-1939), Maria Titova (1879-1949) and Marie Filipoff who died in 1969