Russian Assembly

The Russian Assembly was a Russian loyalist, right-wing, monarchist political group. It was founded in Saint Petersburg in October−November 1900, and dismissed in 1917. It was led by Prince Dmitry Golitsyn. 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 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 wereNobility: Princes –,, A. Lobanov-Rostovsky, M. Shakhovskoy; Counts – P. Apraksin, Aleksei Bobrinsky, ; Baron M. Taube.Clergy: bishop Seraphim Chichagov Statesmen: Alexei Khvostov, Vladimir Gurko, M. Govorukha-Otrok, A. Karamzin, N. Myasoedov, A. Chemodurov, .

Notable members

Prime ministers Boris Stürmer and Alexander Trepov
Minister of Interior Vyacheslav von PlehveStatesmen: Vladimir Purishkevich,
Army generals: N. Peshkov, N. Belyavsky,, P. Mitropolski
Publisher S. Voyeikov; editors, A. Puryshev ; journalist S. Bournashev
Professors and historians:,, Boris Nikolskiy, V.Pogozhev.