Markovo Republic was a self-proclaimed peasant state, located in Russia

Russia

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, 150 kilometers outside Moscow

Moscow

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 in the Volokolamsk

Volokolamsk

Volokolamsk is a town and the administrative center of Volokolamsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Gorodenka River, not far from its confluence with the Lama River, northwest of Moscow. Population: -History:...

 area. It was proclaimed on October 18, 1905, when during the Russian Revolution of 1905

Russian Revolution of 1905

The 1905 Russian Revolution was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. Some of it was directed against the government, while some was undirected. It included worker strikes, peasant unrest, and military mutinies...

 peasants took control of the local government in the village Markovo. It had existed until July 18, 1906. The village elder (starosta

Starosta

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) P. A. Burshin was its first and only "president".