DELEGATION SIZE Single
EXECUTIVES
- Steven Sotomayor (he/him)
- Diego Estrada Adame (he/him)
- Ivan Cano (he/him)
A short time ago, in a Duma near, near here….
RUSSIAN DUMA, 1910
A NEW EMPIRE, A FRACTURED LAND
It is a time of uneasy reform in the Russian Empire.
From the icy countryside to the smoke-choked factories of St. Petersburg, a new world is being born, one of industry, unrest, and irreversible change. The Russian people remain shackled to a decaying order, trapped between medieval poverty and the promise of modern progress. Though the serfs have been given freedom, the fields remain barren and the peasants voiceless.
The divide grows sharper each day. Railroad strikes paralyze cities. Famine haunts the countryside. The whispers of revolution swell into organized resistance as the Bolsheviks, hardened by exile and ideology, prepare to grasp the mantle of history. The Duma, Russia’s fledgling parliament, stumbles forward.
Tsar Nicholas II rules from behind jeweled palace gates, isolated and distrusted, his judgment clouded by mystics and monarchist pride. Chief among them is GRIGORI RASPUTIN, a shadowy figure whose influence over the royal family sparks fear, scandal, and superstition amongst the empire.
Beyond Russia’s borders, Europe thrives. London federalizes. Berlin industrializes. Paris dazzles. And yet, on the western horizon, clouds gather. A web of alliances tightens. A shadowy hand grapples for control over Serbia. An archduke seeks unity within Austria-Hungary. Industries grow, armies mobilize. The powder keg weighs heavily on Europe. The spark of a distant conflict threatens to ignite a global inferno. A Great War is coming, and with it, the final test of Russia’s brittle institutions.
Now, the Deputies of the Duma stand at a crossroads. Will they preserve a crumbling empire through reform and restraint? Or will they be the final witnesses to the fall of Romanov rule, swept aside by the storm of history?