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...

The Zemstvo Dines (Russian: Земство обедает) is a painting by the Russian artist Grigory Myasoyedov (1834–1911), completed in 1872. The canvas depicts...

Regional government of Primorye Zemstvo (Russian: Приморская областная земская управа) was a local government that existed in the eastern part of Russia...

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...

prominent within the party. Many Kadet party members were veterans of the zemstvo, local councils. The Constitutional Democratic Party formed from the merger...

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...

The All-Russian Zemstvo Union of Aid to Sick and Wounded Warriors, under the auspices of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna (Russian:...

abolishing corporal punishment, promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system, imposing universal military service, ending some privileges of...

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...

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...