Russian Assembly

[3] It opposed liberal western parliamentarianism, and advocated 'the old formula of Autocracy, Orthodoxy and Nationality'.

[3] It consisted mainly of right-wing officers and civil-servants in St.

[3] The first congress (rally) of the Russian Assembly took place on February 25 [O.S.

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 Aleksey Suvorin and writer Sergei Syromyatnikov as his two deputies (Russian: товарищи председателя).