Moscow monarchist organizations

Abstract

The article examines the creation and activities of monarchical organizations in Moscow, which has become one of the centers of the right-wing movement in Russia. The Moscow nobility played a key role in the creation of right-wing organizations. However, the events of the First Russian Revolution involved many representatives of other social groups and strata in the political process, some of whom found themselves on the side of the autocracy, usually adhering to extreme right-wing beliefs. This explains the creation in Moscow of many different monarchical organizations, most of which had a pronounced class, professional or estate character. Moscow monarchists laid claim to all-Russian leadership in the right-wing movement, taking a number of successful steps to consolidate it during 1906. But still, in this rivalry, Muscovites, having lost their recognized leader V.A. Gringmut in 1907, lost to the St. Petersburgers, who had more significant financial and administrative support from the government. Gringmut's successors were unable to continue even the unification of the Moscow monarchist organizations that he had begun, primarily due to the personal ambitions and selfish motives of their leaders. A certain role in this was also played by the impossibility of coordinating the interests of various social and professional groups represented in the monarchical organizations of Moscow.