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Excerpts from the Enciklopedija.com article "Semen Grushetska":

On Semen Grushetska's youth (1777-1780)

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20 y/o Prince Semen Grushetsk, 1797​

Under the care of enlightened statesman Prince Cathrinus Kiær, young Prince Semen Alexeivich Grushetska was educated by Einar Noss, a Goyanean protestant. His strong affection for the ideals of the Supreme Law of Goyanes made such an impression on the Severogotian scion. Semen called himself “a good Parliamentarist.”

Growing up, it became more apparent to Semen that Prince Petr Grushetska, his own father, was scheming to replace him as heir with his younger half-brother Paul who shared most of their father's aristocratic values. To defend himself in high society, Semen sought allies that preferred his company and shared his beliefs. These included Tane Audun Hroarsson, Zivko Saltykov, and Dimitar Partarieu. They all wanted to defeudalize and reform Severogotia into a constitutional parliamentary state like Goyanes.

Excerpts from the Enciklopedija.com article "Petr Grushetska":

Petr Grushetska in the Commission of Seven (1776-1801)

In 1776, Cathrinus died. He was the only person who united the Commission of Seven. It was deeply divided between the two most powerful factions in the Rokzakon: The Yakuvoniak nobility and the Valamian nobility. The Grushetskas were a Yakuvoniak house. But Petr's often refused to align with his own faction. His stubborn neutrality made him an attractive replacement for Cathrinus in the Commission. Despite being a non-hierarchal council, Petr was so loud and outspoken with his controversial, autocratic manner of speaking, that he became the public face of the Commission.

His reckless proposals to rush centralization at the expense of the power of the nobility, removing corrupt aristocrats in the bureaucracy, and improving living conditions for the peasants, cost Petr his initial favorability and led to strong Rokzakon opposition to many of his policies. He also banished Cathrinus’s lovers from Rokzakon Palace, notably Jarl Nikolay Zubov. Many of their relatives were successfully lobbied by Cathrinus for high-paying court appointments. His unpredictability combined with his eccentricity raised questions about his sanity.

Other members of the Commission of Seven were intimidated by Petr. They were unable to refuse most of his demands on matters that did not require Rokzakon approval, particularly court, diplomatic, and military affairs. His partial modernization of the military imposed strict regulations that often punished and removed officers for the slightest of blunders, many of whom were sons of opposition leaders in the Rokzakon.

Assassination of Petr Grushetska (1801)

Petr’s unpopularity with the nobility and the military led to calls for his removal. Concerned by the threat of noble sedition, Semen was approached by General Platon Zubov, Nikolay's older brother, and Tane Audun Hroarsson to plot the ouster of the increasingly-dictatorial commissioner, by force if necessary. On the night of 23 December 1801, Petr was cornered in his grace-and-favor apartment at St. Marijus Palace by General Platon Zubov, Jarl Nikolay Zubov, and other co-conspirators in his own chambers and tried to force the subdued monarch to resign. His refusal led them to murder him instead.

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"Semen, my own blood!" — Last words of Petr Grushetska

Semen did not agree to the death of his father. Although the upper classes desired the elder Grushetska's removal, young Grushetska only agreed on the condition that his father was allowed to resign unharmed. The recklessness of the conspirators and the lax security in Petr’s assassination made him doubt the loyalties of both his allies and enemies.
 
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Excerpts from the Severogotia Genealogical Society (sgd.com/severogotska-istorija/) article "Grushetska Charter":

Grushetska Charter (1807-1810)

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St. Marijus Palace, the seat of the Rokzakon (1768-1812)

Prince Semen Grushetska was elected to the Commission of Seven in 1807. He was the only commissioner from the reformist wing of the Yakuvoniak nobility. As the largest Rokzakon faction, 7 of the 16 commissioners were Yakuvoniak nobles. But this composition fluctuated with the number of faction members present in a legislative session. The Rokzakon had no fixed membership size. The minority factions found themselves discouraged by the supermajorities maintained through sheer numbers by the Yakuvoniaks of the Twin Principality, the largest polity by land area in the Triune Commonwealth.

Joined by reformist commissioners from the other factions, Grushetska started work on a draft to reform the Rokzakon. Ardealic commissioner Audun Hroarsson, like Grushetska, was heavily influenced by Goyanean parliamentarism. But many of his ideas were rejected. Some in the reformist faction feared Hroarsson's proposals went too far.

Grushetska's proposal to fix the number of Rokzakon seats was initially met with the same opposition, but the conservative faction was willing to accept the proposal if the reformists supported their proposal for parliamentary immunity and the subordination of the governments of the Kingdom of Ardealul and Usi-Valamo to the government of the Twin Principality.

In 1810, the Rokzakon Reform Act or the Grushetska Charter limited the number of Rokzakon seats to 500. Based on the populations of the local nobility and clergy, the Viceregency Dumas and the Cathedral chapters send delegates to form the Rokzakon membership. The governments of the constituent kingdoms could not propose new local legislation until pending legislation has been unanimously approved by the local Greater Chancellor, the Commission of Seven, and the Rokzakon. Each constituent government became a "rubber stamp" as the Greater Chancellor chose which legislation would be sent to the Commission of Seven and the Rokzakon for approval. Parliamentary immunity was taken advantage of by members involved in the drug trade and organized crime.

The 1811 Rokzakon election was uneventful. Since the franchise was only limited to the nobility, a public campaign was seen as unnecessary and excessive. Discussions about the best candidates were held behind the secluded halls of Viceregency Dumas. From what could be found in the personal diaries of various nobles at that time, there was more interest in future reforms than the potential delegates.

The new delegates of the Rokzakon did not form political parties and tended to group themselves on cultural/organizational lines.

The results of the 1811 Rokzakon election:

Rokzakon factionsNumber of delegates
Yakuvoniak & Arcanstotskan nobility154 delegates
Valamian nobility101 delegates
Andrennian nobility77 delegates
Laurenist clergy68 delegates
Courantist clergy59 delegates
Ardellian nobility23 delegates
Knight-Merchants' Guild of Obni Veliki10 delegates
Mountain Prince Cossack nobility5 delegates
Thaunic clergy3 delegates
Total: 500 delegates
 
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