The ten-year era of Anna Ioannovna’s reign received the name “Bironovschina” among her contemporaries and descendants. Historians are still arguing whether there was German dominance at the Empress’s court or not. From history textbooks we know that the Duchess of Courland, having become the Russian Tsarina, happily tore up the Rules proposed by the Privy Council and, to the joy of the “common people,” re-established an absolute monarchy. But besides the “agreement” between the Empress and the oligarchs, there were other projects for limiting power autocracy. What if a parliament had appeared in Russia in the thirties of the eighteenth century? And in general, was his appearance possible?..