Letters patent nobility begins a new stage in the history of the estate.After the adoption of the document, the nobles become legally privileged layer and got opportunities and rights.
Charter to the Nobility was adopted by Catherine the Great preobrazovatelnitsey 2. No one suspected that a woman not having any rights to the Russian crown, will become the second after Peter 1 the Great Empress.Its policy has become history as "enlightened absolutism."And so it is.His diploma she made the most noble gentry estate.
Charter to the Nobility in 1785 freed the nobles from compulsory service.But it is worth noting that the start of this legal registration of the rights of the estates was initiated by Peter 3 in his manifesto on the freedom of the nobility.This document gave the right to the nobles continue service on their own, and they were allowed to enter the service in other countries, but on condition that the first requirement of the Russian Empire, they will come back to the location of the Russian army already.
Charter to the Nobility also decided that the children who have not attained 18 years of age, you need to provide only information about the place of education.The content of this Manifesto has caused doubts among Catherine, and she convened a special commission to correct the document.After that, based on existing provisions issued Letters Patent.It had its own structure and divided into 4 parts:
- personal benefits;
- Assembly and the reform of aristocratic society;
- guidance to the compilation of genealogical books;
- proof of origin.
new document released by the nobility of corporal punishment type, let the man in the case of marriage to give her nedvoryanke their status, and the woman in case of married nedvoryanina such a right is not granted.
Also this document Catherine 2 secured the following provision: judge nobleman could only equal his court and no one else.The nobles were given the right to collect their societies and meetings - it says about their government.It is worth noting that the letter has leveled all kinds: from the noble to the ordinary.Thus, all the noble families have the same rights and opportunities.The distinguishing feature of that time was the creation of genealogical books, and by the presence of that kind of nobility judged.
Charter to the Nobility, and the city became a symbol of enlightened absolutism in the time of Catherine 2. Adopted on the day of her birth, they become as symbolic as the figure of the Great Empress.Of great importance was the adoption of the final documents for the social stratification of the Russian society.
Charter to the Nobility was adopted in the late 18th century.It cemented the privileges of the nobility, the conditions for their life and greater opportunities for the disposition of the peasants.The document was an excellent opportunity for the development of managerial and entrepreneurial skills class, as well as for the formation of noble self-confident.
