Traditionally conservative social groups

Identify the social groups that most closely supported the state and its values at various periods from 1613 to 1917. Who were these groups, and what were their reasons for supporting the status quo? Compare and contrast the development and fates of several traditionally conservative social groups over the whole period (such as: the clergy, landed gentry/aristocrats, the military leadership) and right-leaning political thinkers like Shcherbatov, Karamzin, Uvarov, and Pobedonostsev, religious leaders and thinkers like Patriarch Nikon, Feofan Prokopovich, Vladimir Solovev, and Fedor Dostoevsky, statesmen like Sergei Witte and, after 1905, the Octobrist Party). What roles did conservatives/conservatism play in supporting, or failing to support, the regime over time? How had various groups of traditionally conservative people fared by the twentieth century, and how did they respond to the challenges posed by the 1905 revolution, World War I, and the two revolutions of 1917? Explain in your own words the significance of conservatism in contributing to and/or delaying the downfall of the Russian monarchy.