Zemsky Sobor
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Key facts
- Preceding agency
- Veche
- Superseding agency
- Governing Senate
- Headquarters
- Moscow Kremlin
- Parent department
- Boyar duma
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- executive branch
- Country
- Tsardom of Russia
- Followed by
- State Duma
- Follows
- Veche
- Image
- Царь Иоанн IV открывает первый Земский собор своею покаянною речью..jpg
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- inception
- 1550-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1684-00-00
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- Zemsky Sobor
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Encyclopedic overview
The Zemsky Sobor (Russian: зе́мский собо́р, IPA: [ˈzʲemskʲɪj sɐˈbor], lit. 'assembly of the land') was a parliament of the Tsardom of Russia's estates of the realm active during the 16th and 17th centuries.
The assembly represented Russia's feudal classes in three categories: Nobility and the high bureaucracy, the Holy Sobor of the Orthodox clergy, and representatives of "commoners" including merchants and townspeople. Assemblies could be summoned either by the tsar, the patriarch, or the boyar duma, to decide current agenda, controversial issues or enact major pieces of legislation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zemsky Sobor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.