Christina Krasnianskaya: "Good taste - is the ability to choose"

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You heard about the class?

Yes, something somewhere ...

In Russia, from 2 nd half of the XVIII century firmly established the division of birth:

Nobility, was divided into hereditary and personal;
Clergy
The estate of honorary citizens;
merchants;
Commoners;
Commonalty;
Cossacks;
The peasantry, this class was divided into personally free chernososhnyh freeholders and farmers, as well as dependent on the crown and the feudal serfs.
SI Shchukin was from a family of merchants of Old Believers.
And the merchants, the privileged class in Russia in the XVIII - early XX centuries. So-called "third estate" - after the nobility and the clergy.
Estates status merchant defined property qualification. Since the end of XVIII century merchant was divided into three guilds. Belonging to one of them was determined by the size of capital, from which the merchant was obliged to pay an annual guild fee of 1%of total capital. This made access to the merchants representatives of other sectors of the population. Since the beginning of XIX century until the 1917 revolution merchants rose from 125 thousand men to 230tysyach. However, 70-80%belongs to the third guild.

Merchants could be awarded an honorary citizenship and the ranks of Commerce and Manufactures-adviser.

Ranks of Commerce and Manufactures-Adviser were introduced in 1800 to encourage entrepreneurs. They corresponded to the class XIII Table of Ranks. Get them could only merchants, passed a "blameless" at least 12 consecutive years in the first guild. Obtaining such a civilian rank gave privileges to the merchants, close to the gentry.

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Matisse, bought the house in Klyamare and Picasso bought an apartment

You are so often about it say that it seems that you have problems with housing.