The Russian Assembly (russian: link=no, Русское собрание) was a Russian loyalist, right-wing,

monarchist Monarchism is the advocacy of the system of monarchy or monarchical rule. A monarchist is an individual who supports this form of government independently of any specific monarch, whereas one who supports a particular monarch is a royalist. ...

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'. It consisted mainly of right-wing officers and civil-servants in St. Petersburg.

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 pub ...

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,

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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''

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Vissarion Komarov and Alexey Suvorin, '' censor'' Nikolay Sokolov *''Writers'' A. Papkov and Nikolai Engelhardt, ''poet'' Vasiliy Velichko. Among those elected to the Board subsequently were * ''Nobility'': Princes – Michael Volkonsky (later one of the leaders of the

Union of Russian People The Union of the Russian People (URP) (russian: Союз русского народа, translit=Soyuz russkogo naroda; СРН/SRN) is a loyalist far-right nationalist political party, the most important among Black-Hundredist monarchist politic ...

), А. А. Куракин, A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, M. Shakhovskoy;

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s – P. Apraksin, Aleksei Bobrinsky, Sergei Toll; Baron M. Taube. * ''Clergy'': bishop

Seraphim Chichagov Seraphim Chichagov (9 June or 9 January 1856 – 11 December 1937), born Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagov, was a Metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church who was executed by firing squad, and was canonized by the Church in 1997 as a New ...

(later one of the founders of the

) * ''Statesmen'':

Alexei Khvostov Aleksey Nikolayevich Khvostov () (1 July 1872 – 23 August 1918) was a right-wing Russian politician and the leader of the Russian Assembly. He was a governor, a Privy Councillor (Russia), a chamberlain, a member of the Black Hundreds, and ant ...

Vladimir Gurko Vladimir Iosifovich Gurko (russian: Влади́мир Ио́сифович Гу́рко; December 12, 1862 in Tsarskoye Selo – February 18, 1927 in Paris) was a Russian government official and a member of the Russian Assembly. Life He wa ...

, M. Govorukha-Otrok, A. Karamzin, N. Myasoedov, A. Chemodurov,

Nikolai Zverev Nikolai Sergeyevich Zverev (russian: Николай Серге́евич Зве́рев, sometimes transliterated Nikolai Zveref; ) was a Russian pianist and teacher known for his pupils Alexander Siloti, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriab ...

(later one of the founders of the Russian Peripheral Society),

Notable members

*''Prime ministers''

Boris Stürmer Baron Boris Vladimirovich Shturmer (russian: Бори́с Влади́мирович Штю́рмер) (27 July 1848 – 9 September 1917) was a Russian lawyer, a Master of Ceremonies at the Russian Court, and a district governor. He became a ...

and

Alexander Trepov Alexander Fyodorovich Trepov (; 30 September 1862, Kiev – 10 November 1928, Nice) was the Prime Minister of the Russian Empire from 23 November 1916 until 9 January 1917. He was conservative, a monarchist, a member of the Russian Assembly, a ...

*''Minister of Interior''

Vyacheslav von Plehve Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve ( rus, Вячесла́в (Wenzel (Славик)) из Плевны Константи́нович фон Пле́ве, p=vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf fɐn ˈplʲevʲɪ; – ) served as a director of Imperial Russ ...

* ''Statesmen'':

Vladimir Purishkevich Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich ( rus, Влади́мир Митрофа́нович Пуришке́вич, p=pʊrʲɪˈʂkʲevʲɪt͡ɕ; , Kishinev – 1 February 1920, Novorossiysk, Russia) was a far-right politician in Imperial Russia, no ...

, Nikolai Zajączkowski *''Army generals'': N. Peshkov, N. Belyavsky, К. И. Величко, P. Mitropolski *''Publisher'' S. Voyeikov; ''editors'' P. Bulatzel ( newspaper "Russkoye Znamya"), A. Puryshev ("Vestnik Russkogo Sobraniya"); journalist S. Bournashev *''Professors and historians'': Timofei Butkevich, Platon Kulakovskiy, Boris Nikolskiy, V.Pogozhev.

References

Bibliography

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