Zemsky Sobor

The Zemsky Sobor (Russian Земский собор ) was a Russian national assembly, which met at irregular intervals in the 16th and 17th centuries. Members were the representatives of all classes except the serfs.

The Zemsky Sobor were urban country representatives, imperial assemblies, which met in Russia in the 16th and 17th century. Their appearance was in connection with the formation of the Russian centralized state, the weakening of the princely bojarischen aristocracy, the increased political power position of the lower and middle nobility and the rise of the urban upper classes.

The first Zemsky Sobor occurred in 1549 in the reign of Ivan IV together; with them it was representative of the spiritual and the secular rulers. At their meetings, important issues of society and the state were discussed. Since the 1560s took part in the deliberations of the Zemsky Sobor also members of the entrepreneur, merchant, and artisan class part.

Russia Foreign writers compared the Zemsky Sobor with the English Parliament, the Reichstag and the Polish Sejm.

The active work of the Zemsky Sobor falls within the period from the 16th to the mid 17th century. In connection with the emergence of absolute government practice Zemsky Sobor which gradually lost their function and eventually disappeared altogether. Zemsky Sobor which played an even more important role in the adoption of the Imperial Code of 1649.

The Semskij Sobor elected

In 1922 the Provisional Government Amur together Zemsky Sobor a, Nikolai Nikolayevich Romanov specific to the Tsar.

Swell

• С.Л. Авалиани. " Литературная история земских соборов ". Odessa, 1916.
• Земские соборы The encyclopedia Brockhaus and Efron, Moscow, 1993. Accessed March 10, 2012

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• Russian History