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Anton Bakov

Антон Алексеевич Баков

Bakov in 2003

Archchancellor of Romanov Empire

Incumbent

Assumed office
April 2014
 Monarch Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen

Prime Minister, Romanov Empire

Incumbent

Assumed office
July 2011

Chairman, Monarchist Party

Incumbent

Assumed office
April 2012

Personal details

Born 29 December 1965 (age 52)

Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union

Occupation businessman, politician

Anton Bakov (Russian: Антон Алексеевич Баков; born 29 December 1965) is a businessman,
politician, traveller, writer and human rights activist. He is the chairman of the Russian Monarchist
Party and was a member of the 4th convocation of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from
2003 to 2007.
Bakov claims to have restored the Russian Empire through his establishment of the micronation of
the Imperial Throne in 2011. In 2014, the Imperial Throne issued a manifesto announcing that
German Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen had succeeded Nicholas II and is now Emperor Nicholas
III.[1] In 2017, the micronation was re-branded into Romanov Empire, and it was announced the
African nation of Gambia had began the process of its state recognition.[2] Under this regime, Bakov
holds the position of Archchancellor and bears the title of "His Serene Highness Prince" (Knyaz).[3]

Contents
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 1Biography
o 1.11980s–90s
o 1.22000s–2010s
 1.2.1Gubernatorial elections
 1.2.2The Union of Right Forces and the Party Action
 2Current projects
o 2.1Russian Monarchist Party
o 2.2Nicholas III and sovereign state Imperial See
 2.2.1Kiribati developments
 2.2.2Gambia developments
o 2.3Ekaterinburg Senate
 3Books and science
 4References

Biography[edit]
Bakov was born on 29 December 1965 in Sverdlovsk, (now Yekaterinburg) in a family of engineers
who worked at the Uralmash machine building plant. He graduated from the Ural Polytechnic
Institute (now the Ural State Technical University) in 1988. He was a Lenin grant-aided student and
graduated with honours.[4] While a student he became an activist in the anti-communist movement.
He organized several political activities including the public boycott of uncontested elections to
the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1984, the founding of a public movement aimed at re-
opening churches closed down by the communists and the saving of the memorials of national
history in Verkhoturye in 1987.[5] In 1988, he also initiated the removal of the plates with the names
of Joseph Stalin's NKVD executioners from city streets.
He is married and has four children and five grandchildren. His daughter Anastasia, who is an
actress and singer residing in Moscow, was a candidate for mayoral elections in Yekaterinburg in
2013.
1980s–90s[edit]
Bakov is one of the first legal businessmen in Russia. In 1987, four months after the permission to
set up first independent cooperative societies in the Soviet Union and while still at university, Bakov
established the private tourist agency "Cedar", the first such agency in the country. In 1991 on the
basis of this agency, he established the company "East Line" which involved in air cargo transfers
between Europe and Asia and became the operating agent for Moscow Domodedovo Airport. Bakov
invited Dmitry Kamenshchik to co-operate the company, and they managed the airport to receive
international status in 1992.[6] Bakov left the business in 1994, the airport grew up to become
Russia's largest since then.
In 1994, Anton Bakov was elected a Serov county deputy of Sverdlovsk Oblast Parliament —
Sverdlovsk Oblast Duma and the Chairman of the Duma Legislative Committee. His first actions as
a deputy were aimed against the federal appointments of city mayors and regional governors. He
and his like-minded team succeeded in holding the executive government elections in 1995–1996.
At the same time Bakov created and supported the so-called Social Ambulance – a system of social
control. In 1994 he became an active member of Duma's Chairman Eduard Rossel's team.[7] He was
a member of the pre-election committee for E. Rossel in 1995, who won the election.
Bakov participated in the Yekaterinburg mayor elections in 1995, and came second behind Arkady
Mikhailovich Chernetsky.[8] In 1996 he was elected the Vice-Chairman of Sverdlovsk Regional
Duma,[9] and then was nominated for the post of the Governor of Kurgan region, but his candidature
was not registered. In 1997–2000 Bakov became the General Director (CEO) of the city-forming
enterprise — Serov Metallurgical Plant (ru) (9,000 employees). This experience became very
important for his future career.
Anton Bakov is the author of the project of Ural franc—a scrip initially printed for usage in projects
related to Ural Republic. It never was used in this way; but in 1997–2000 the banknotes were used
as money substitute at Serov Metallurgical Plant. Nowadays they have numismatic value and are
exhibited at museums.
2000s–2010s[edit]
In 2000 Anton Bakov was elected to the House of Representatives (the upper chamber) of the
Legislative Assembly of Sverdlovsk oblast (from Serov single-mandate electoral district).[10] He fought
against corruption (organized "Anti-Mafia" public movement, which opposed the criminal
organisation "Uralmash”) and against the propriety redistribution process. In order to increase the
wellbeing of the population, Bakov was involved in educational activities, created consumer and
credit cooperatives, councils of local public self-governing bodies and condominiums. As an MP,
Bakov proposed to increase the size of the allowances for children and the introduction of regional
additional payments to state pensions. Since 2002 Bakov has been engaged in buying land, and
now is one of the largest landowners of the Urals.[11] As a developer, Bakov actively started building
country houses for sale. In addition, he is actively involved in political consulting. In recent years he
specialized in the development of Internet, media and political social networks, including those which
are aimed at mobilizing people to fight corruption.
In 2002 there was a scandal at 2002 Winter Olympics where Russian figure skater Irina
Slutskaya was denied 1st place despite widespread professional opinions that she would win;
particularly, Figure Skating Federation of Russia demanded a second gold medal for her. Anton
Bakov at the time had ordered a custom copy of olympic gold medal completely made of gold (700
grams, while the genuine one contained only 6 grams) and personally awarded it to Slutskaya.[12]
Gubernatorial elections[edit]
In 2003, Bakov participated in the elections of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region. He
accused Eduard Rossel of having links with the criminal organisation “Uralmash”. In the second
round Anton Bakov lost, gaining 330,000 votes against the more than 600,000 obtained by Eduard
Rossel.[13] In 2003 he was elected to the State Duma from single-mandate Serovskiy electoral district
№ 167.[14]
The Union of Right Forces and the Party Action[edit]
After the election, he joined the party “the Union of Right Forces”. He supervised all the successful
election campaigns of the party in all the regions, except for Chechnya, in 2004–2007. In December
2006, Bakov was elected the Secretary of the electoral work of the “Union of Right Forces”. He is
considered to be the one who proposed abandoning traditional right-wing party liberal rhetoric and
populist slogans such as raising pensions and supporting the poor. Because of the defeat of
the Union of Right Forces in the Russian legislative election, 2007 and the abolition of single-
mandate electoral districts, Anton Bakov did not get into the State Duma for the next term.