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.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?
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
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.
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.