The Russian Assembly (russian: link=no, Русское собрание) was a Russian loyalist, right-wing,
monarchist
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political group (party). It was founded in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
in October−November 1900,
[Русское собрание]
/ref> and dismissed in 1917. It was led by Prince Dmitry Golitsyn.[Figes, p. 196] It opposed liberal western parliamentarianism, and advocated 'the old formula of Autocracy, Orthodoxy and Nationality'.
Leaders
The first congress (rally) of the Russian Assembly took place on in Petersburg. It approved the rights of 120 full members of the party and elected the supreme governing body, the Board of 18 members. Prince Dmitri Petrovich Golitsyn was elected a chairman of the Council; members of the Board journalist Aleksey Suvorin
Aleksei Sergeyevich Suvorin (Russian: Алексей Сергеевич Суворин, 11 September 1834, Korshevo, Voronezh Governorate – 11 August 1912, Tsarskoye Selo) was a Russian newspaper and book publisher and journalist whose publ ...
and writer Sergei Syromyatnikov as his two deputies (russian: link=no, товарищи председателя).
Another 15 members of the first Board were:
*''Army generals'': Mikhail Borodkin, Alexander Vasilyev, count
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N. Geiden, Akim Zolotaryov;
* ''Statesmen'': baron R. Disterlo, V. Lyschinsky, Alexander Krivoshein
Alexander Vasilyevich Krivoshein (russian: Александр Васильевич Кривошеин) (July 19 (31 ( N.S.), 1857, Warsaw – October 28, 1921, Berlin) was a Russian monarchist politician and Minister of Agriculture under Pyotr S ...
, Alexey Kharuzin; ''librarian'' of the State Chancellery S. Yuferov;
*''Publishers'' Col.
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Vissarion Komarov and Alexey Suvorin
Aleksei Sergeyevich Suvorin (Russian: Алексей Сергеевич Суворин, 11 September 1834, Korshevo, Voronezh Governorate – 11 August 1912, Tsarskoye Selo) was a Russian newspaper and book publisher and journalist whose publ ...
, '' censor'' :ru:Соколов, Николай Матвеевич, Nikolay Sokolov
*''Writers'' A. Papkov and Nikolai Engelhardt (writer), Nikolai Engelhardt, ''poet'' :ru:Величко, Василий Львович, Vasiliy Velichko.
Among those elected to the Board subsequently were
* ''Nobility'': Princes – :ru:Волконский, Михаил Николаевич, Michael Volkonsky (later one of the leaders of the Union of Russian People), :ru:Куракин, Анатолий Александрович, А. А. Куракин, A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, M. Shakhovskoy; Counts – P. Apraksin, Aleksei Aleksandrovich Bobrinsky, Aleksei Bobrinsky, :ru:Толь, Сергей Александрович, Sergei Toll; Baron M. Taube.
* ''Clergy'': bishop Seraphim Chichagov (later one of the founders of the Union of Russian People)
* ''Statesmen'': Alexei Khvostov, Vladimir Gurko, M. Govorukha-Otrok, A. Karamzin, N. Myasoedov, A. Chemodurov, :ru:Зверев, Николай Андреевич, Nikolai Zverev (later one of the founders of the :ru:Русское окраинное общество, Russian Peripheral Society),
Notable members
*''Prime ministers'' Boris Stürmer and Alexander Trepov
*''Minister of Interior'' Vyacheslav von Plehve
* ''Statesmen'': Vladimir Purishkevich, :ru:Зайончковский, Николай Чеславович, Nikolai Zajączkowski
*''Army generals'': N. Peshkov, N. Belyavsky, :ru:Величко, Константин Иванович, К. И. Величко, P. Mitropolski
*''Publisher'' S. Voyeikov; ''editors'' :ru:Булацель, Павел Фёдорович, P. Bulatzel (Russkoye Znamya (newspaper), newspaper "Russkoye Znamya"), A. Puryshev ("Vestnik Russkogo Sobraniya"); journalist S. Bournashev
*''Professors and historians'': :ru:Буткевич, Тимофей Иванович, Timofei Butkevich, :ru:Кулаковский, Платон Андреевич, Platon Kulakovskiy, Boris Nikolskiy, V.Pogozhev.
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