43 Facts About Anton Bakov

Anton Alekseyevich Bakov is a Russian businessman, monarchist politician, traveler, writer and human rights activist.

Anton Bakov is the chairman of the Russian Monarchist Party, was a member of the 4th convocation of the State Duma of Russia from 2003 to 2007 and was a candidate at 2018 Russian presidential election.

Under this regime, Anton Bakov holds the position of Archchancellor and bears the title of "His Serene Highness Prince".

Anton Bakov was born on 29 December 1965 in Sverdlovsk, in a family of engineers who worked at the Uralmash machine building plant.

Anton Bakov tells there are seven generations of Russian Orthodox priests in his ancestry.

Anton Bakov graduated from the Ural Polytechnic Institute in 1988.

Anton Bakov was a Lenin grant-aided student and graduated with honours.

Anton Bakov 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.

Anton Bakov is one of the first legal businessmen in the USSR.

In 1987, four months after the permission to set up first independent cooperative societies in the Soviet Union and while still at university, Anton Bakov established the private tourist agency "Cedar", the first such agency in the country.

Anton Bakov invited Dmitry Kamenshchik to co-operate the company, and they managed the airport to receive international status in 1992.

Anton Bakov left the business in 1994, the airport grew up to become Russia's largest since then.

Anton Bakov was a member of the pre-election committee for E Rossel in 1995, who won the election.

Anton Bakov participated in the Yekaterinburg mayor elections in 1995, and came second behind Arkady Chernetsky.

In 2000 Anton Bakov was elected to the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of Sverdlovsk Oblast.

Anton Bakov fought against corruption and against the propriety redistribution process.

Since 2002 Anton Bakov has been engaged in buying land, and now is one of the largest landowners of the Urals.

In 2003, Anton Bakov participated in the elections of the Governor of Sverdlovsk region.

Anton Bakov accused Eduard Rossel of having links with the criminal organization "Uralmash gang".

In December 2006, Anton Bakov was elected the Secretary of the electoral work of the "Union of Right Forces".

Anton Bakov 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.

In 2010s Anton Bakov concentrated on making business and authoring of books dedicated to politics and society.

Anton Bakov campaigned using references to the city authorities' performance and to God.

In 2015 Anton Bakov announced the Party's plans to run for the upcoming 2016 Russian State Duma elections.

In early 2016 Anton Bakov had announced the Monarchist Party plans to organize a public trial for Lenin and Stalin, accusing them of killing millions of Russians and thus significantly slowing down the normal evolution of society and state.

In fall 2017 Anton Bakov started campaigning for the 2018 Russian presidential election, being nominated by the Monarchist Party.

Anton Bakov withdrew his candidature on January 24,2018, declaring that his second Romanov Empire citizenship officially prevents him from the run.

Anton Bakov declared the new Russian Empire to be the successor to the historical Russian Empire that ceased to exist in 1917.

Anton Bakov declared himself prime minister and announced a constitution and state symbols.

In June 2012, Anton Bakov registered the Monarchist Party with the Russian Ministry of Justice, with the stated goal of restoring the monarchy to Russia in accordance with the law.

In July 2013, Anton Bakov claimed his nation granted citizenship to Edward Snowden, who at the time was in Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport seeking amnesty in Russia.

Anton Bakov has held discussions with a number of nations in attempts to purchase land and give the micronation territory under its control.

In 2020, Anton Bakov declared that his new project, the successor to the Empire, entitled Arca Noe, is going to be based in neutral Mediterranean waters close to Venice as a part of the seasteading movement.

The Yekaterinburg Senate is an independent civil governing body organized by Anton Bakov aimed to provide social control for official Yekaterinburg authorities such as City Duma.

In 2020 Anton Bakov organized the creation of an illustrated book of fictional fairytales about a real 17th-century peasant Bogdashko Toporok, who turned out to be an ancestor of Anton Bakov and many other modern people from Urals.

Anton Bakov discovered his identity while examining old Russian archives, but due to very little amount of documented information set the book up as a series of fictional stories exposing his own non-traditional view on those ages of Russian history.

Anton Bakov is married and has four children and eight grandchildren.

Anton Bakov's daughter Anastasia was a candidate for mayoral elections in Yekaterinburg in 2013.

Anton Bakov's son Mikhail, an engineer, was a candidate for Yekaterinburg City Duma the same year.

The elder son Ilya Anton Bakov was born on 28 July, 1985 and attempted to run for Moscow city mayor at 2018 Moscow mayoral election.

Anton Bakov's program proposed the creation of a special economic zone "German Quarter" and a federal ministry for capital affairs.

Anton Bakov withdrew from the race in July 2018 due to complexities in the registration process.

Ilya Anton Bakov is a land developer involved in suburban housing projects near Ekaterinburg who organizes social development programs.