A person from a higher society is, as a rule, a person belonging to the nobility

The state can be federal or unitary, can have any political structure. The only thing that unites all countries is the division into classes existing since the time of the primitive communal system.

What is the class structure?

The division of the state or society into classes can be called differently. For medieval Europe and tsarist Russia, the class structure of the country was characteristic. The statuses of these divisions were created for hundreds of years. The existence of various social groups always spoke of social inequality. The population was formed on the basis of characteristic features, primarily in order to distinguish a privileged stratum, or to know who is standing on the highest state level, and to give it all the power. From the beginning of the XVIII century in Russia, the representative of this class was a person belonging to the nobility.

Plato spoke of such a state system. But the estates appropriate for Ancient Rome, with its fall, lost their name, meaning and meaning. Each time, each country has its own division into classes. In Russia in 1917, as a result of the revolution, the largest Eurasian state ceased to exist, and such "castes" as the nobles and petty bourgeoisie ceased to exist. Consequently, a person belonging to the nobility, as well as to the petty bourgeois, lost his rights and privileges.

Characteristic features of social classes

National strata, defined by some features in any social group, had characteristic features, rights, powers and privileges fixed at the state level and inherited. Strict caste was always observed, there were features inherent only in this social class. And even if some estate ceased to exist in reality, then for many years it continued to live in the human consciousness or become a household name, entered into a lexicon. So, the word "slaves" will always be applicable to the person of the lowest, most dependent origin or behavior. And the concept of "nobility", even mentioned ironically, implies a group of people who are influential and wealthy. The word "burghers" in general took on a contemptuous meaning, although it belonged to a human contingent with a certain wealth, law-abiding and non-conflict.

"A nobleman is one for many"

After the October Revolution, state policy was aimed at belittling the dignity and achievements of representatives of high society. In general, it was impossible to erase them from memory, since the brightest historical figures were for the most part come from this society. Suvorov - a person belonging to the nobility. Kutuzov and Nakhimov, Glinka and Zhukovsky - noblemen, heroism, patriotism and contribution to the greatness of Russia which, to diminish or erase from memory, is not at all given to anyone. It was possible to silence or completely distort the passionary traits and human courage of Stolypin, Kornilov and many other best representatives of mankind. As the proverb says well: "A nobleman will not throw a knife, even a little head will perish."

Of course, not only representatives of the elite possess top notions. There are hundreds of examples, but the most famous were always the exploits of Ivan Susanin, as well as Minin and Pozharsky, who liberated Russia from the intervention of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The first of them is a peasant, the second (Minin) is a philistine, the third is a person belonging to the nobility. Like Pushkin, Nekrasov, Turgenev and Tolstoy - Leo and Alexei.

Geographical distribution of the nobility

Each Russian province had its own "noble assembly", had its own leader. Actually, being in this or that association, spoke about the address belonging to the man of this estate, meant, so to speak, the location of his "noble nest".

In the Tula province there was a noble meeting, uniting a group of people of high society. VI Chernopyatov (1857-1935) compiled the most reliable and multivolume reference book titled "The Nobility Estate of the Tula Province", published throughout 1908-1915. It included absolutely all the data from the moment of the rise of the nobility under Peter I and until the day of his disappearance. It takes into account not only pedigrees, family interweaving, familial conditions, but feats for the sake of the Fatherland, committed by representatives of this class, their good deeds for the prosperity of the province and Russia as a whole, schools, hospitals, libraries and industrial enterprises erected on their facilities. Now science, such as heraldry and genealogy, are becoming incredibly popular. It is very fashionable to restore your family tree, to find out belonging to "glorious Russian surnames", preferably having its coat of arms. Therefore, the works of such historians as VI Chernopyatov are incredibly in demand.