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I'd be generally supportive of it, but I'm not too fond of the provisional government thing for the east. I've written about the area in a briefing post [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4533833]here[/url], I think.

But the general gist is that the Amur Host, headed by Hetman Yuri Mykhalov formed a confederacy among the other Cossack units of the Russian far-east after being thrown out of Primorsky Krai by the Japanese. He and the rest of the Cossack units have been terrorizing the area to keep its security and order, ostensibly in the name of the Czar. They are the order and military force of the region.

I'd be willing to take in the Monastic Order idea under the assumption that it's something that exists "underneath" the Cossacks so to speak. A loose political affiliation of Russian far-eastern monks who are trying to simply organize the efforts of the communities in the far-east, albeit I don't think the situation would be famine-tier, just heavily economically depressed. Unless you're situated in the far north there should be enough agricultural potential to at least keep self sustaining communities.

I don't know if there's any active monastic orders in the Russian East though, but it's difficult to confirm anything with Russia and Siberia.