Prince Lvov gained a degree in law upon graduation from the University of Moscow, then worked in the civil service until 1893. In 1905 he joined the liberal Constitutional Democratic Party and a year later won election to the first Duma. He became chairman of the All-Russian Union of Zemstvos in 1914.
After the February Revolution, Lvov became the first head of the Provisional Government, but soon resigned amid mounting anarchy. After the Bolsheviks took power they placed Lvov under arrest, but he escaped to Paris, where he spent the rest of his life.
Prince Georgy Evgenevich Lvov (1861-1925) led the Russian Provisional Government during the Russian revolution's initial phase, from March 1917 until he relinquished control to Alexander Kerenski in July 1917.
As revolution approached, Lvov - with a background as a liberal monarchist - came to believe that Russia would suffer military defeat at the hands of Germany and Austria-Hungary unless Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and a new government put in place.
With the February Revolution of 1917 (and the Tsar's consequent abdication) Lvov was appointed Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, chiefly as a means of ensuring liberal urban and rural support for the new political regime.
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