Doctor Dubrovin and the State Duma: from hope to boycott

The article examines the attitude of the leader of the largest Black Hundred organization of the Russian Empire, the Union of the Russian People, A. I. Dubrovin, to the State Duma. For the first time in historiography, his views on all four convocations of the Duma, the participation of the leader of the Black Hundreds in election campaigns are reconstructed and analyzed in detail, and Dubrovin's assessments of the people's representation are introduced into scientific circulation. It is proved that despite the negative attitude towards the legislative State Duma established as a result of the First Russian Revolution and disappointment with all its convocations, Dubrovin did not deny the need for an elected body capable of conveying the “voice of the people” to the monarch, bypassing bureaucratic obstacles and contributing to the improvement of the people's life.