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  2. State Duma (Russian Empire) - Wikipedia

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    Tsar Nicholas II's opening speech before the two chambers in the Winter Palace (1906) Members of the State Duma with two Russian police officers. The first Duma was established with around 500 deputies; most radical left parties, such as the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party had boycotted the ...

  3. State Duma - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] [6] The State Duma of the Russian Empire was founded in 1905 after the violence and upheaval in the Russian Revolution of 1905 and was Russia's first elected parliament. The first two attempts by Tsar Nicholas II (1868–1918) to make it active were ineffective. Subsequently, each of these Dumas was dissolved after only a few months.

  4. 1906 Russian legislative election - Wikipedia

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    Tsar Nicholas II's opening speech before the two chambers on 27 April 1906 Sergey Muromtsev (1850–1910) was the President of the First State Duma Prime Minister Ivan Goremykin (1839–1917) was instrumental in the dissolution of the First State Duma. Legislative elections were held in the Russian Empire from 26 March to

  5. List of Russian monarchs - Wikipedia

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    At his accession as the sole monarch of Russia in 1696, Peter held the same title as his father, Alexis: "Great Lord Tsar and Grand Prince, Autocrat of Great, Small and White Russia". [109] By 1710, he had styled himself as "Tsar and All-Russian Emperor", but it was not until 1721 that the imperial title became official. [109]

  6. Duma - Wikipedia

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    The term boyar duma (боярская дума, boyarskaya duma) is used to refer to the councils of boyars and junior boyars (boyar scions) which advised the prince on state matters during the times of Kievan Rus' and the Tsardom of Russia (then tsar). [2] In 1711 Peter the Great transferred its functions to the Governing Senate. Contemporary ...

  7. Vyborg Manifesto - Wikipedia

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    A copy of the original transcript of the 'Vyborg Appeal'. The Vyborg Manifesto (Russian: Выборгское воззвание, romanized: Vyborgskoye Vozzvaniye, Finnish: Viipurin manifesti, Swedish: Viborgsmanifestet); also called the Vyborg Appeal) was a proclamation signed by several Russian politicians, primarily Kadets and Trudoviks) of the dissolved First Duma on 22 July [O.S. 9 July ...

  8. Governing Senate - Wikipedia

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    From 1711 to 1917, the Governing Senate [a] was the highest legislative, judicial, and executive body subordinate to the Russian emperors.The senate was instituted by Peter the Great to replace the Boyar Duma and lasted until the very end of the Russian Empire.

  9. State Duma of the Russian Empire of the Second Convocation

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    Elections to the Second Duma were held according to the same rules as in the First Duma (multi-stage elections for curia). At the same time, the election campaign itself took place against the background of a fading but continuing revolution: "agrarian soil riots" in July 1906 covered 32 provinces of Russia, and in August 1906 50% of counties ...