Russian Assembly

Russian Assembly (Russian: Русское собрание) was Russian loyalist right-wing monarchist political group (party). Founded in Petersburg in October — November 1900^[1][2], dismissed in 1917.

Leaders

The first congress (rally) of the Russian Assembly took place on February, 25 [O.S. 12] 1901 in Petersburg. It approved the rights of 120 full members of the party and elected the supreme governing body, the Board (Russian: Совет) of 18 members. Prince Dmitri Petrovich Golitsyn was elected a chairman of the Council; members of the Board journalist A. A. Suvorin and writer Sergei Syromyatnikov as his two deputies (Russian: товарищи председателя).

Another 15 members of the first Board were:

• Army generals: Mikhail Borodkin, Alexander Vasilyev, count N. Geiden, Akim Zolotaryov;
• Statesmen: baron R. Disterlo, V. Lyschinsky, Alexander Krivoshein, Alexey Kharuzin; librarian of the State Chancellery S. Yuferov;
• Publishers Col. Vissarion Komarov and Alexey Suvorin, censor Н. М. Соколов
• Writers A. Papkov and Nicholas 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), А. А. Куракин, A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, M. Shakhovskoy; Counts — P. Apraksin, А. А. Бобринский, С. А. Толь; Baron M. Taube.
• Clergy: bishop Серафим (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 , Nikolai Zverev (later one of the founders of the Russian Peripheral Society),

Notable members

• Prime ministers Boris Stürmer and Alexander Trepov
• Minister of Interior Vyacheslav von Plehve
• Statesmen: Vladimir Purishkevich, 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.

Literature

• Rawson, Don C. (March 1995). Russian rightists and the revolution of 1905. Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies (No. 95). Cambridge University Press. pp. xv, 312, 1 map, 28 tables. ISBN 9-780-52148-386-5. http://www.cambridge.org/0521483867. 
• Rogger, Hans (1986). "The Formation ot the Russian Right: 1900–1906". Jewish policies and right-wing politics in imperial Russia. University of California Press. pp. 188–210. ISBN 0-520-04596-3. http://books.google.com/books?id=utu3By-p-kEC&pg=PA212&dq=Russian+Fascism&hl=en#v=onepage&q=Russian%20Fascism&f=false. 

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