Social estates in the Russian Empire were denoted by the term soslovie (sosloviye), which approximately corresponds to the notion of the estate of the...

guild (Russian: купеческая гильдия) was a form of organization of merchants in the Russian Empire. Since the late 18th century, membership in a guild...

introduced in the Digest of Laws of the Russian Empire in the 17th century for a social estate that included the lower court and governmental ranks, children...

Taxable estate may refer to: the estate taxable under estate taxes taxable real-estate under property taxes a type of estate in the Social estates in the Russian...

The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the Middle Ages to early...

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian...

simultaneously both an ethnicity and a grouping of special social estates in the Russian Empire from the 16th to the early 20th century. Because of their military...

until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian noble estates staffed most of the Russian government and possessed a self-governing body, the Assembly...

The Russian Empire census, formally the First general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897, was the first and only nation-wide census...

The economy of the Russian Empire covers the economic history of Russia from 1721 to the October Revolution of 1917 (which ushered in a period of civil...