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Charter to the Gentry

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Charter for the Rights, Freedoms, and Privileges of the Noble Russian Gentry also called Charter to the Gentry or Charter to the Nobility was a charter issued by the Russian empress Catherine II.

It recognized the corps of nobles in each province as a legal corporate body and stated the rights and privileges bestowed upon its members. Charter was divided into introduction and four sections:

  1. Personal rights and privileges of the gentry.
  2. Corporate self-organization of the gentry. Assemblies of Nobility
  3. Genealogy books.
  4. Documents, establishing nobility.


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