The Council of Monarchist Congresses is a collegial body created to coordinate the monarchist movement in the Russian Empire in November 1915 . The creation of such an organ was caused by the need to unite the monarchist forces in the face of the growing opposition to the autocracy, revolutionary propaganda, the growing instability in the country, as a counterweight to the consolidation of antimonarchist forces, expressed, in particular, in the creation of the Progressive bloc in the IV State Duma .
In addition, the creation of such a body was intended to smooth out the contradictions and enmity between the "Markov" and "Dubrovin" Unions of the Russian people by including representatives of both organizations in it.
The Council of Monarchist Congresses was created at the Petrograd Conference of Monarchists on November 21-23, 1915. It was created on the basis of the governing body of the meeting - the Council of the Petrograd meeting. Initially, the Council included 27 people:
- Chairman - Member of the State Council I. G. Shcheglovitov ,
- 2 comrades of the chairman - member of the State Duma prof. S.V. Levashev and Senator A.A. Rimsky-Korsakov ,
- 19 members of the Council: the head of the Kiev department of the Union of Russian people about. M.P. Alabovsky , Member of the State Council Count A. A. Bobrinsky , Infantry General S. S. Buturlin , Head of the Pochaiv Department of the NRC Archimandrite Vitaliy (Maksimenko) , Head of the Smolensk Department of the NRC Lieutenant General M. M. Gromyko , Chairman of Ryazansky Department of the NRC, Bishop Dimitry (Sperovsky) of Ryazan and Zaraisk, Head of the Odessa Department of the NRC A.T. Dontsov, Chairman of the Main Council of the All-Russian Dubrovinsky Union of the Russian People (VDSRN) A.I. Dubrovin , Member of the State Duma G. G. Zamyslovsky , Head l Kharkov Division of the NRC, E. E. Kotov-Konyshenko , Chairman of the Zhytomyr Division of the NRC, Major General A. M. Krasilnikov , Bishop of Balakhninsky Makariy (Gnevushev) , Member of the State Council N. A. Maklakov , Chairman of the Main Council of the NRC N. E. Markov , chamberlain of the Supreme Court, Prince S. B. Meshchersky , member of the State Council A. N. Mosolov , prominent monarchist figure K. N. Paskhalov , Odessa mayor B. A. Pelikan and fellow chairman of the Main Council of the NRC V. P. Sokolov .
- 5 secretaries of the Council, member of the main council of the NRC L.N. Bobrov , honorary member of the Kostroma department of the NRC B. A. Vsevolozhsky , chairman of the Russian Monarchist Union S. A. Keltsev , chairman of the Nikolaev department of the NRC I. V. Revenko and member of the Kiev department of the NRC G. M. Shinkarevsky .
However, among the members of the new Council there were disproportionately few well-known monarchists-supporters of A.I. Dubrovin. Therefore, immediately after the Petrograd meeting, they held a monarchist meeting in Nizhny Novgorod (the All-Russian monarchist meeting in Nizhny Novgorod of authorized right-wing organizations on November 26-29 , 1915), at which an alternative coordinating body, the Presidium of the monarchist movement, was formed.
To prevent the deepening of the split, at the first meeting of the Council of Monarchist Congresses (January 21 ( February 3 ) 1916 ) many of Dubrovin's supporters were co-opted into it - Chairman of the Odessa Union of Russian People N. N. Rodzevich , Chairman of the Astrakhan People's Monarchist Party N. N. Tikhanovich-Savitsky and the Saratov leader of the nobility, real state adviser V.N. Oznobishin .
In mid- 1916, Shcheglovitov resigned from the paste of the head of the Council. S. V. Levashev was elected in his place, and A. I. Dubrovin and N. E. Markov , the leaders of the opposing Unions of the Russian people, were among the chairman's comrades.
The Council was engaged in holding meetings at which issues of coordination of the monarchist movement were considered, issued statements and appeals in which, in particular, condemned attempts to conduct "alternative" monarchist congresses, not under the auspices of SMS.
At the end of 1916, the activities of the Council practically ceased.