Table of Ranks
TABLE OF RANKS
The Table of Ranks was a system of advancement introduced by Peter
the Great in 1722 for use in the three branches of government
service: military, civil, and court. It established 14 ranks in
three parallel groups for each of these branches, and provided for
orderly advancement from the lowest to the highest echelons even to
those of lowly birth. Many of the subscribers appearing in the
subscription lists that make up the database in this archive are
listed with titles showing their place in the Table of Ranks, and,
consequently, their status in early nineteenth-century Russian
society.
Military Rankings
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Note: A basic source for further information on this system is:
Bennett, Helju Aulik, "Evolution of the Meanings of Chin: an
Introduction to the Russian Institution of Rank Ordering and Niche
Assignement from the Time of Peter the Great's Table of Ranks to
the Bolshevik Revolution," California Slavic Studies, X (1977), pp.
1-44.
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