The reign of Catherine the Great saw the highpoint of
the Russian nobility. Catherine had noble estates surveyed and give the
possessors title to the land. And so the old service estates became private
property. The distinction between votchina and pomestie estates now completely
disappeared in law as well as in practice. In 1785 Catherine conferred on
the nobility the Charter to the Nobility.
For the first time in Russian history a social group had legal rights instead
of only duties. The Charter also gave corporate rights to the nobility in
each district and province. Each group elected a Marshall of the Nobility
who spoke on their behalf to the monarch on issues of concern to them
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