AHC: Russia becomes a parliamentary state by 1688

Seems pretty impossible. Even in more advanced Western Europe parliamentary monarchies were rare on 1688 and Russia has been always pretty backward compared to Western Europe. If someone even try this, him surely crush. Even that you get parliamentary monarchies as common thing in Western Europe you need much good luck and pretty progressive persons.
 
Seems pretty impossible. Even in more advanced Western Europe parliamentary monarchies were rare on 1688 and Russia has been always pretty backward compared to Western Europe. If someone even try this, him surely crush.
Poland was much less advanced than Western Europe, and WAS parliamentary monarchy. And Poland was culturally the closest country to Russia - closer than Sweden or Turkey. The 17th century boyars were defecting back and forth between Poland and Russia - Russian/Belorussian language both sides, and Orthodox church operated both sides. So the boyars on Russian side knew how Poland was run.

Did any want to make Russia a Rzecpospolita like Poland?
 
Poland was much less advanced than Western Europe, and WAS parliamentary monarchy. And Poland was culturally the closest country to Russia - closer than Sweden or Turkey. The 17th century boyars were defecting back and forth between Poland and Russia - Russian/Belorussian language both sides, and Orthodox church operated both sides. So the boyars on Russian side knew how Poland was run.

Did any want to make Russia a Rzecpospolita like Poland?

The difficulty here is that, while there was a Duma in existence in the 17th century, it was more to the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemot or the Scandanavian Thing than the contemporary Parliament of Britain, or the Estates General that existed in France, Denmark and Sweden. Membership was entirely based on rank, or favor in the court. The body existed to advise, not to rule. Most importantly, in the 17th century most of the member's political influence was based on their wealth and military strength that they held independent of the state, quite the opposite of the nobility created by Peter the Great's table of ranks.

While members of the Duma did have independent political ambitions, and would take part in court intrigues, their ambitions were generally to support one faction in the Tsar's household, and be rewarded with Titles. Russia (or Tsardom of Russia to be more precise) was simply at a different level of political development than Poland, to say nothing of Spain, France or England.

Like medieval French and English counts, the Boyars were more interested in securing local authority, not in creating a centralized government, even one of their own making.
 
Seems pretty impossible. Even in more advanced Western Europe parliamentary monarchies were rare on 1688 and Russia has been always pretty backward compared to Western Europe. If someone even try this, him surely crush. Even that you get parliamentary monarchies as common thing in Western Europe you need much good luck and pretty progressive persons.

In 1557, Stepanida Ivanovna, wife of Feodor Ivanovich Godunov, died with her baby during childbirth.

In 1584, Fyodor I Ivanovich inherited the throne of Russia, after the death of his father, Ivan the Terrible, he was unhealthy and intellectually disabled, leading to the trouble of regeny.
Too many people wanted to be the main Minister in the court of Russia, some of the main contenderes were Boris Godunov, Patriarch Job of Moscow and Alexander Romanovich.

All three contenderes had their own followers lik:
Godunov - Conservative and supremacy of Parliament.
Patriarch Job - Russian Orthodox ethics, values and structure in politics
Romanovich - Monarchism and Imperial Power.

Forming a primative parliament
 
In 1557, Stepanida Ivanovna, wife of Feodor Ivanovich Godunov, died with her baby during childbirth.

In 1584, Fyodor I Ivanovich inherited the throne of Russia, after the death of his father, Ivan the Terrible, he was unhealthy and intellectually disabled, leading to the trouble of regeny.
Too many people wanted to be the main Minister in the court of Russia, some of the main contenderes were Boris Godunov, Patriarch Job of Moscow and Alexander Romanovich.

All three contenderes had their own followers lik:
Godunov - Conservative and supremacy of Parliament.
Patriarch Job - Russian Orthodox ethics, values and structure in politics
Romanovich - Monarchism and Imperial Power.

Forming a primative parliament

Sounds more like a triumvirate than a Parliament. Factions based around personalities are not the best vehicle for an enduring parliamentary structure, and a triumvirate is only stable as long as the relative balance of power remains constant between the triumvirs. Basically the clique would rule jointly only until Boris or Alexander decided to make a move against the other.
 
The difficulty here is that, while there was a Duma in existence in the 17th century, it was more to the Anglo-Saxon Witenagemot or the Scandanavian Thing than the contemporary Parliament of Britain, or the Estates General that existed in France, Denmark and Sweden. Membership was entirely based on rank, or favor in the court.

So was the Senate of Poland. After the Lublin Union, its complement was 142 Senators: 15 bishops, 35 voivodes, 78 castellans and 14 high officers of state.
 
Seems pretty impossible. Even in more advanced Western Europe parliamentary monarchies were rare on 1688 and Russia has been always pretty backward compared to Western Europe. If someone even try this, him surely crush. Even that you get parliamentary monarchies as common thing in Western Europe you need much good luck and pretty progressive persons.

Backward in technological terms, sure, but the idea that technological advancement goes hand-in-hand with political freedom is nothing but Whiggish fantasy. As a matter of fact, the most "advanced" form of government in the Early Modern period was in fact absolutism, as monarchs sought to do away with checks on their power and concentrate political authority in their own persons. Europe in the 18th century was both technologically more advanced and politically more absolutist than it had been in the 11th.
 
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