The Table of Ranks was a system of ranks that tied a person's social standing to service in the military, in civil service, or at the imperial court. A court councilor's rank was moderately high on the list. Each category of service had 14 ranks.
The court councilor's rank corresponded to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the army, the sergeant in the Cossacks and captain of the 2nd rank. The official address for a court councilor was "Your Excellency".[1] The signs of the distinction of this rank were double-luminous buttonholes or epaulets with three stars.
Historyedit
Court councillor (with epaulets as insignia).
Until 1745, this rank belonged to the 8th class and later belonged to the 7th class. Initially, persons who had reached this rank were automatically given hereditary nobility. After the reform of 1856, those who served received only personal nobility. After 1803, directors of departments of ministries and provincial authorities (governors, stewards, governors-general) could confer this rank.
Since the 19th century, all persons who had a doctor’s degree or academic title of professor received this rank automatically. This policy led most of the outstanding Russian scientists of that time to receive hereditary nobility.
The function of the court councilor was an adviser to the "court of appeal", despite the fact that in 1726 these courts were abolished. The rank existed until November 25, 1917, when the entire system of rankings was abolished by the Decree Abolishing Classes and Civil Ranks.[2]
Literary characters serving as 7th-grade officialsedit
Investigator of the Tsarist Police Nil Alekseevich Kolychev in the novel by Alexey Nagorny and Geliy Ryabov The Tale of the Criminal Investigation", later filmed as the TV series Born by the Revolution
Vasily Petrovich Bachey in the novel by Valentin KataevThe Small Farm in the Steppe. In the work A White Sail Gleams, the action of which takes place earlier, Vasily Bachey seems to be an official of a higher 6th class, Collegiate Councillor.
^"Декрет об уничтожении сословий и гражданских чинов". www.hist.msu.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-01-06.
^"Lib.ru/Иван Сергеевич Тургенев: Дым". az.lib.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2019-01-06.
Sourcesedit
Dmitry Liventsev. A brief dictionary of ranks and titles of state service of the Moscow State and the Russian Empire in the 15th and early 20th centuries.
Leonid Shepelev. Titles, Uniforms, Orders in the Russian Empire
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