The Markovo Republic (Russian: Марковская республика) was a self-proclaimed peasant state located in Russia, roughly 150 kilometers outside of Moscow, in the Volokolamsk district.[1] It was proclaimed on 31 October 1905, when during the Russian Revolution of 1905 peasants took control of the local government in the village Markovo. The republic revolt was put down on 18 July 1906,[2] six months after the revolution had been put down in the cities. The state has been viewed as "one of the most impressive examples of progressive peasant politics during the 1905 Revolution".[1]
One of the republic's founders were the writer and Tolstoyan Sergey Semyonov, from the nearby village of Andreevskoe.