publication of the manifesto "On Liberty noble" is a short decree of Peter III.It happened in the second half of the XVIII century.
Background document and publication of the manifesto "On Liberty noble»
In the Russian Empire went full speed the establishment of new relations in the system of power and regrouping aristocratic estates.The boyars, the former medieval Russia in the most approximate to a group of rulers are increasingly losing their positions over the years.Fighting nobles lasted several centuries.By the middle of the XVIII it was clearly evident that the nobles (former servicemen Boyarsky Dvor) more definitively established themselves in a privileged position and must be legislative consolidation of this fact.Manifesto "on the freedom of the nobility" (the year of 1762-th) freed nobles from the obligation to bear the state military service.They were allowed to freely leave the country.Although there was a disclaimer that in wartime, such a duty is still preserved.Aristocrats, who moved abroad during the war, in which Russia was involved, were forced to return and participate in campaigns.
publication of the manifesto "On Liberty noble" and its consequences
consolidation of the nobility and its final emergence as a highly aristocratic strata of society began under Peter I. In fact, the publication of the manifesto "On Liberty noble" finalize the appropriatetheir legal status.Now nobility replaced the medieval aristocracy.Manifesto "on the freedom of the nobility," has been added during the reign of Catherine II, when it was published the so-called "Charter to the Russian nobility," which further expanded the powers of freedom and the last.Now all the noble rights assigned to them for life, and forever, and handed down.All members of a class equalized between the rights, regardless of the kind of antiquity and acquired titles.However, these same nobles salaries tied to the imperial power, makes them dependent on it, which, in general, is quite consistent with the processes of absolute monarchy that took place across the European continent.
Nobles literally turned into civil servants, filling the bureaucracy.In addition to the provisions of the Military Service Act, contained in this document and other items.He also secured the full and inalienable right of the aristocratic class to real estate: land plots and estates.The nobles were exempt from any form of corporal punishment and any taxes.It formalizes the corporate device class: created noble assemblies that were in official face of the state.The whole complex of these measures ordained important result - the formation and strengthening of Russia's class-representative monarchy, which at the time was best political system for Europe.
