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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 […]

The boom years of 1890s Russia came to an abrupt halt at the turn of the century when an economic slump left many of the new urban working class jobless and led to unrest in the countryside.  The Tsar’s popularity took another knock when hopes of a quick military victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904) […]