Russia’s first parliament
11th June 2013
The First State Duma, Russia’s first ever elected parliament, was the direct result of the 1905 Revolution, and sat between April and July 1906 at St Petersburg’s Tauride Palace (built by Catherine the Great for Potemkin in the 1780s). It was always going to be difficult, even though the Bolsheviks and others had boycotted the […]
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