Zemsky Sobor

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Zemsky Sobor
Земский собор
Moscow Kremlin
Parent departmentBoyar duma

The Zemsky Sobor (Russian: зе́мский собо́р, IPA: [ˈzʲemskʲɪj sɐˈbor], lit. 'assembly of the land') was a parliament of the Tsardom of Russia's estates of the realm active during the 16th and 17th centuries.

The assembly represented Russia's

boyar duma, to decide current agenda, controversial issues or enact major pieces of legislation.[2]

Tsardom of Russia

In the 16th century, Tsar Ivan the Terrible held the first Zemsky Sobor in 1549, holding several assemblies primarily as a rubber stamp but also to address initiatives taken by the lower nobility and townspeople.

Times of Troubles

"Eternal Peace" with Poland-Lithuania
.

Sergey Ivanov's Zemsky sobor (1908)
A chapter that records election of Michael of Russia as Tsar signed in 1613.

1922 Zemsky Sobor

The Zemsky Sobor of Amur region (Приамурский Земский Собор) of the

Patriarch Tikhon as the honorary chairman of the Zemsky Sobor. Neither Nikolai or Tikhon were present at the assembly, and the plan was cancelled when the region fell to the Bolsheviks
two months later.

Further reading

  • S.L. Avaliani, "Литературная история земских соборов" [Literary History of the Zemsky Sabors]. Odessa: 1916.
  • John Keep, "The Decline of the Zemsky Sobor," in Power and the People: Essays on Russian History. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1995; pp. 51–72.

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