. A thousand years of Russian history. should come automatically to those who had served theState for a certain number of years, those who had risensufficiently in the hierarchy of service, the Tchin. Thisnew order of society therefore contained representatives ofall the various shades of aristocracy, from the descendantsof the great princes of olden times to the newest parvenus. Of such elements was the Russian nobility composed whenCatherine called the Legislative Commission. She increasedtheir privileges, liberated them from the compulsory Stateservice introduced by Peter I., and succe
. A thousand years of Russian history. should come automatically to those who had served theState for a certain number of years, those who had risensufficiently in the hierarchy of service, the Tchin. Thisnew order of society therefore contained representatives ofall the various shades of aristocracy, from the descendantsof the great princes of olden times to the newest parvenus. Of such elements was the Russian nobility composed whenCatherine called the Legislative Commission. She increasedtheir privileges, liberated them from the compulsory Stateservice introduced by Peter I., and succeeded in bringingcohesion into this heterogeneous body and thus createdan organised privileged class. Moreover, she gave themlocal self-government by elected representatives, who metat the special Provincial Assemblies presided over by themarshal of the nobility of each province. Again and again in the history of Russia the samephenomenon occurs : whenever the lot of the peasantbecame too unbearable, riots and insurrections broke out ;.
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