The Russian Assembly () was a Russian loyalist, right-wing, monarchist political group (party). It was founded in Saint Petersburg in October−November 1900,Энциклопедия Санкт-ПетербургаРусское собрание 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 Dmitrii Golitsyn was elected chairman of the Council; members of the Board journalist Aleksey Suvorin and writer as his two deputies ().
Another 15 members of the first Board were: Army generals: Mikhail Borodkin, , count N. Geiden, ; 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 Writers A. Papkov and Nikolai Engelhardt, poet .
Among those elected to the Board subsequently were Nobility: Princes – (later one of the leaders of the Union of Russian People), , A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, M. Shakhovskoy; Counts – P. Apraksin, Aleksei Bobrinsky, ; 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, (later one of the founders of the ).
Notable members Prime ministers Boris Stürmer and Alexander Trepov Minister of Interior Vyacheslav von Plehve Statesmen: Vladimir Purishkevich, Army generals: N. Peshkov, N. Belyavsky, , P. Mitropolski Publisher S. Voyeikov; editors (newspaper "Russkoye Znamya"), A. Puryshev ("Vestnik Russkogo Sobraniya"); journalist S. Bournashev Professors and historians: , , Boris Nikolskiy, V.Pogozhev.
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