Abstract
Ultra-right parties in the Russian Empire are traditionally presented as supporters of aggressive Russian nationalism, seeking to russify all nations of the country. However, the analysis of the views of various representatives of the right-wing parties shows that there existed several points of view on the national question that differed significantly from each other. Agreeing that Russia should remain a unified empire without any federalization, the authors described different principles of interaction between Russians and other peoples. In addition, there was no common understanding of the criteria that determined belonging to the Russian people. Therefore, the Russian people could be understood as estate, ethnic and civil communities. Very often the distinctive marker of a Russian was just “not belonging to the Inorodtsy”, who were understood not as a legally defined group, but as Russian statehood opponents. As the result, the intelligentsia and privileged classes of the empire could be excluded from belonging to the Russian people. The serious differences in the views of the ultra-rightists led to the fact that they could not present an integral program for the solution of the national question.
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