On its left, the PȚB also incorporated ethnic Romanians who had caucused with "Sfatul Țării"s "Peasant Faction" ("Fracția Țărănească"). The latter's notable members were Inculeț (its nominal leader), Pantelimon Erhan, and Vladimir Tsyganko. References to a "Bessarabian Peasants' Party" date back to the era before World War I. A faction of that name existed in the Russian State Duma after the 1907 election. Centered on Dionisy Gulikin, it campaigned for the recognition of Romanian as a state language of Russia. The same title was later used in common parlance for the Peasants' Faction of "Sfatul Țării".