Russian Monarchist Union

This article is about the political party active in the Russian Empire. For the current Russian monarchist party, see Monarchist Party.

Russian Monarchic Union (RMU)
Founded	1905 Moscow, Russian Empire
Type	Non-governmental organization
Focus	Public and political
Location	Moscow, Russian Federation (international)
Area served	Russian Empire
Members	10 thousand
Key people	Mihail Hutorov, The Supreme Consul , Roman Kiselev
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Russian Monarchist Party was a Russian monarchist Rightist nationalist organisation, founded in February 1905 in Moscow. In 1907 it changed name to Russian Monarchist Union.

The party was founded by Vladimir A. Gringmut (ru), reactionary editor of the periodical Moscow News (Moskovskiye Vedomosti), in February.^[1]

It advocated the reestablishment of a powerful autocratic rule, martial law, and suppression of Jews who they claimed were mainly the instigators of the revolutionary disorders.^[1] It also stood for local self-government, public education, freedom of the press, improvement of workers and peasants conditions and had following internal enemies: Constitutional-Democrats, Socialists, revolutionaries, anarchists and the aforementioned Jews (Bundists).^[2]

References

1 2 Figes, p. 196
↑ «Московские ведомости», 16 [O.S. 1906] июня г., №141.(

Bibliography

Figes, Orlando (2014). A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891–1924. London: The Bodley Head. ISBN 9781847922915.

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