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	Titre	*Общественное самосознание noblesse russe* в XVI-первой трети XIX в.**
	Auteur	Sigurd O. Schmidt
	Revue	Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique
	Numéro	volume 34, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1993 Noblesse, État et société en Russie XVIe - début du XIXe siècle
	Rubrique / Thématique	I
	Page	11-31
	Résumé anglais	Sigurd О. Schmidt, The sense of nobility in Russia from the sixteenth till the first third of the nineteenth century. The article takes up the problem of the noble identity since the instauration of absolute monarchy till the beginning of the nineteenth century. The opposition between the hoiare and the dvoriane as used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries does not take into account finer subdivisions, in particular between princely and non-titled lineages. As to the Imperial period, the domain of the moral life of the nobility, the part it played in the formation of Russian intelligentsia or in the affirmation of ethic norms have not been sufficiently studied. The idea of the historical part played by the nobility inspired some of its members with interest for its history and for the preservation of documents, since Tatishchev, and up to the « young archivists ». The suppression of the service obligation and the charter of 1785 resulted in a new definition of the part assigned to the nobility whose mission was no longer the obligation of service but devotion to the tsar and to fatherland, the nobles acting as representatives of all the subjects of the Russian Empire. Such is for instance Karamzin's conception. As viewed by the best representatives of the nobility, the struggle for public welfare constituted the practical expression of the « soul's nobility » of Russian gentlemen. In this, they were different from the nobility « without ancestors or birth » as Pushkin puts it. Source : Éditeur (via Persée)
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