Russian Monarchist Union

This article is about the political party active in the Russian Empire. For the current Russian monarchist party, see Monarchist Party of Russia.

Russian Monarchist Union (Russian: Русский монархический союз, romanized: Russkii Monarkhicheskii Soiuz) was a Russian monarchist right-wing nationalist organisation, founded in February 1905 in Moscow. Until 1907, it was known as the Russian Monarchist Party (Russian: Русская монархическая партия, romanized: Russkaia Monarkhicheskaia Partiia).

Russian Monarchist Union Russian: Русский монархический союз
Abbreviation	RMU (РМС)
Founder	Vladimir Gringmut
Founded	May 8, 1905; 119 years ago (1905-05-08)
Dissolved	October 1917; 107 years ago (1917-10)
Headquarters	Moscow, Russian Empire
Newspaper	"The Russian Monarchist" (Русский Монархист)
Membership	10,000
Ideology	Restoration of the Russian monarchy Black-Hundredist Russian conservatism Russian irredentism Anti-Semitism
Political position	Far-right
Religion	Russian Orthodox Church
Colours	Black   Gold   White
Slogan	"God is With Us!" (Съ нами Богъ!)
Party flag

The party was founded by Vladimir Gringmut (ru), reactionary editor of the periodical Moscow News (Moskovskiye vedomosti), in February.^[1]

It advocated the reestablishment of a powerful autocratic rule, martial law, and suppression of Jews, who they claimed were mainly the instigators of the revolutionary disorders.^[1] It also stood for local self-government, public education, freedom of the press, and improving workers' and peasants' conditions. It had the following internal enemies: constitutional democrats, socialists, revolutionaries, anarchists, and the aforementioned Bundists.^[2]