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    elaborated the idea of the zemstvo, and the first zemstvo laws went into effect in 1864. After the October Revolution the zemstvo system was shut down by...
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    The Zemstvo Dines (Russian: Земство обедает) is a painting by the Russian artist Grigory Myasoyedov (1834–1911), completed in 1872. The canvas depicts...
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    A Zemstvo stamp was a Russian local stamp used widely in rural areas from 1865. It was named after the Zemstvo local administrative districts or uyezds...
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    Regional government of Primorye Zemstvo (Russian: Приморская областная земская управа) was a local government that existed in the eastern part of Russia...
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    prominent within the party. Many Kadet party members were veterans of the zemstvo, local councils. The Constitutional Democratic Party formed from the merger...
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  • throne in 1894, by the most liberal zemstvo leaders. The address was inspired by increased wishes for an "all-class zemstvo at the volost level", something...
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    The All-Russian Zemstvo Union of Aid to Sick and Wounded Warriors, under the auspices of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna (Russian:...
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    abolishing corporal punishment, promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system, imposing universal military service, ending some privileges of...
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    Zemstvos in 1914, and in 1915 he became a leader of the Union of Zemstvos as well as a member of Zemgor, a joint committee of the Union of Zemstvos and...
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    and zemstvo workers. On the initiative of the Union of Liberation, a large-scale campaign of zemstvo petitions was launched in November 1904. Zemstvo and...
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    abolishing capital punishment, promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system, imposing universal military service, ending some of the privileges...
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    penalties in criminal cases. In 1837, a regulation on the zemstvo police was issued saying that the zemstvo police chief elected by the nobility became the head...
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    A major authority on the history and the current problems of Russian zemstvo, Skalon published a set of influential essays on the matter, mostly in...
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    heard in some assemblies of the zemstvos the voices of those who have indulged in a senseless dream that the zemstvos be called upon to participate in...
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    into and reinforced each other. Russian progressives formed the Union of Zemstvo Constitutionalists in 1903 and the Union of Liberation in 1904, which called...
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    as well as their application in Romanian practice. The institute of the zemstvo was regarded by some of them as the most democratic form of government...
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    national councils organized by neighboring minorities, and of soviets and zemstvos formed by non-Cossack Russians, especially the so-called "outlanders" who...
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    doctors to take up a hobby to help him relax. In 2006 his collection of Zemstvo stamps sold at auction for €90,000 after his death. Wiesenthal was portrayed...
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    all of Myasoedov's major works were exhibited at traveling exhibitions — Zemstvo Dines (1872), Reading the Regulations of February 19, 1861 (1873), Plowing...
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  • 1870s. These included the creation of local political bodies known as zemstvos. All owners of houses, tax-paying merchants and workmen are enrolled on...
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  • Alexander's bureaucracy instituted an elaborate scheme of local self-government (zemstvo) for the rural districts (1864) and the large towns (1870), with elective...
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    the industrial councils, 34 by local governmental zemstvos, 16 by local governments having no zemstvos, and 6 by Poland. As a legislative body the powers...
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    When zemstvo institutions were introduced in 1864, the province was left non-zemstvo. In 1903, the "Regulations on the management of zemstvo economy...
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  • system was replaced by zemstvo huts. In the zemstvo hut there were: Zemsky headman; Stall tax collector; Zemsky tax collectors. Zemstvo elders and tax collectors...
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    doi:10.4324/9781315844770. ISBN 9781315844770. Krebs, H. (1905-03-11). "Zémstvo and Zemsky-Sobór". Notes and Queries. s10-III (63): 185. doi:10.1093/nq/s10-iii...
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    'debate') was a clandestine discussion circle consisting of liberal "zemstvo men", among them prominent and grand names of the Russian aristocracy....
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    Talashkino, Smolensk Governorate, funded by Princess Maria Tenisheva. Zemstvo building in Poltava by Mykhailo Krychevskyi (1903–1908) Dnister credit...
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    the face.' Kalyayev was hanged on 23 May 1905. In 1915, the All-Russian Zemstvo Union was organised under Elisabeth's auspices to provide support for sick...
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    politician. Graduate of Moscow University. Well-known zemstvo man and for many years chairman of Sudzha Zemstvo Board. For his radical pronouncements at the sessions...
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    zemstvo school project was created by public activists to save hundreds of unique schools in Poltava region which were built in Lokhvytskyi zemstvo in...
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