The Western Zemsta Bill

Nicholas was thrilled to discover he could hold the line, and maybe, bit by bit, he could start to reclaim what he believed had been unjustly taken away from him. Shortly after the naval budget fight, we get to the next big legislative showdown, the western zemsta bill. When the msta were first created back in the 18 sixties, they were not created in the most westernly provinces of the russian empire - those territories that had been annexed from poland. But now as part of his broader administrative reforms, stelepin wanted to introduce the zemsta to six western provinces. These new zemstas were designed with quite the opposite goal in