In Russia the tsar owned a much higher proportion of the state (lands, enterprises, etc.) than did Western monarchs.[5][6][7][8][9][10] The tsarist autocracy had many supporters within Russia. Major Russian advocates and theorists of the autocracy included writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky,[11][12] Mikhail Katkov,[13] Konstantin Aksakov,[14] Nikolay Karamzin,[12] Konstantin Pobedonostsev[11][3] and Pyotr Semyonov. They all argued that a strong and prosperous Russia needed a strong tsar, and that philosophies of republicanism and liberal democracy did not fit Russia.[11]