Assembly of Nobility
Assembly of Nobility or
Dvoryan Assembly (""ворянское Собрание") was the self-government body of the
estate ("сословие") of
dvoryanstvo in
Imperial Russia during
1785-
1917. The Nobility Assemblies were at the
guberniya and
uyezd levels. Sometimes it is also translated as
Gentry Assembly.
The chair of a Nobility Assembly was called
Gubernia (District) Marshal of Dvoryanstvo (or
Marshal of Nobility) (губернский (уездный) предводитель дворянства). These Assemblies governed both the dvoryanstvo itself and took part in the governing of local affairs of the whole society. After the
Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia and subsequent reforms their purpose became mostly affairs of dvoryanstvo.
This institution ceased to exist in Russia after the
October Revolution.
After the
collapse of the Soviet Union, in
1990 the descendants of Russian
nobility founded the
Russian Assembly of Nobility, a public non-political organization.
[R.A.N. website ]
