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Russian Assembly was Russian loyalist
Loyalist
In general, a loyalist is someone who maintains loyalty to an established government, political party, or sovereign, especially during war or revolutionary change. In modern English usage, the most common application is to loyalty to the British Crown....

 right-wing monarchist political group (party
Political party
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). Founded in Petersburg in October — November 1900, dismissed in 1917.

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 A. A. Suvorin and writer
Writer
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 Sergei Syromyatnikov as his two deputies .

Another 15 members of the first Board were:
  • Army generals: Mikhail Borodkin
    Mikhail Borodkin
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    , Alexander Vasilyev, count
    Count
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     N. Geiden, Akim Zolotaryov;
  • Statesmen: baron
    Baron
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     R. Disterlo, V. Lyschinsky, Alexander Krivoshein
    Alexander Krivoshein
    Alexander Vasilyevich Krivoshein was a Russian monarchist politician.- Life :Graduate in law of St. Petersburg University. Worked in the Ministry of Justice and later in the Ministry of the Interior . Assistant Head of the Department of Peasant Colonization , and Head...

    , Alexey Kharuzin
    Alexey Kharuzin
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    ; librarian of the State Chancellery S. Yuferov;
  • Publishers Col.
    Colonel
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     Vissarion Komarov and Alexey Suvorin, censor
    Censorship
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    Н. М. Соколов
  • Writer
    Writer
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    s
    A. Papkov and Nicholas Engelhardt, poet
    Poet
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    Vasiliy Velichko.


Among those elected to the Board subsequently were
  • Nobility: Prince
    Prince
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    s — Michael Volkonsky (later one of the leaders of the Union of Russian People), А. А. Куракин, A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, M. Shakhovskoy; Count
    Count
    A count or countess is an aristocratic nobleman in European countries. The word count came into English from the French comte, itself from Latin comes—in its accusative comitem—meaning "companion", and later "companion of the emperor, delegate of the emperor". The adjective form of the word is...

    s — P. Apraksin, А. А. Бобринский, С. А. Толь; Baron
    Baron
    Baron is a title of nobility. The word baron comes from Old French baron, itself from Old High German and Latin baro meaning " man, warrior"; it merged with cognate Old English beorn meaning "nobleman"...

     M. Taube.
  • Clergy
    Clergy
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    : bishop
    Bishop
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     Серафим (later one of the founders of the Union of Russian People)
  • Statesmen: Alexei Khvostov
    Alexei Khvostov
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    , Vladimir Gurko
    Vladimir Gurko
    Vladimir Iosifovich Gurko was a Russian government official and right-wing politician.- Life :Son of the Iosif Gurko. Brother of the general Vasily 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
    Boris Stürmer
    Baron Boris Vladimirovich Stürmer was a Russian statesman. He served as Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Interior Minister of the Russian Empire for several months during 1916.- Biography :...

     and Alexander Trepov
    Alexander Trepov
    Alexander Fyodorovitch Trepov was the prime minister of Russia from November 1916 until January 1917.- Life :Educated in His Majesty's Page Corps. Worked in the Ministry of the Interior . Elected Marshal of Nobility of Pereiaslavl Uezd...

  • Minister of Interior Vyacheslav von Plehve
    Vyacheslav von Plehve
    Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve , also Pléhve, or Pleve was the director of Imperial Russia's police and later Minister of the Interior.- Biography :...

  • Statesmen: Vladimir Purishkevich
    Vladimir Purishkevich
    Vladimir Mitrofanovich Purishkevich , was a Russian politician before the Bolshevik revolution, noted for his monarchist and antisemitic views...

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