FuranNietchaieff написал:
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. An address is indicated: Garnizonnaya Street. Is it in Lithuania or in Russia (Moscow?)?[/q]
I don't know. Since he worked in Kovno then, it should be Kaunass.
I've googled, there was a noble family named Dobrovolsky in Kovno governorate.
I've not found a street with this name, yet there was a Roman-Catholic church built between 1891-95.
This one. It was also called "Kaunass garrison cathidral""
So maybe the street was near it.
There's no such a street in Moscow.
FuranNietchaieff написал:
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From 1900 to around 1905 he was in Kiev, Ukraine as a professor. He achieved personal nobility too.[/q]
No, he wasn't a professor! He was a high school teacher.
There were three types of high schools in Russia: real schools (realnye uchilischa; for ordinary people, focused on technical studies), gymnasiums (originally for nobility, focused on the classics, humanities), and cadet corps (military schools).
Professors taught at universities.
He received the rank of nadvorny sovetnik (court councillor), a 7th class, and then kollezhsky sovetnik (collegiate councillor), a 6th class of the table of ranks. These were considered quite high in the bureaucratic hyararchy. Yet, of course, below the top governmental officials niche.
The top governmental ranks started with the class 4 of the table of ranks, which is the actual state councillor (deystvitelny statsky sovetnik). These were the ministerial ranks.
Since 1845 the ranks he received gave the right for personall nobility, yet there's no evidence so far, that he actually received the certain patent for it.
as for all these patents, it must be in RGIA, the funds of the Senate's Heraldry (Герольдия Правительствующего Сената), because it was them who granted patents on titles and ranks.
As fo yet. the title of a personal nobleman was to pass to his wife, but not to his children. They had the right for the hereditary honored citizenship (potomstveniy pochetny grazhdanin).
By 1890s these titles no longer had significant value, were more of honorifics.
However, they were still much preferred when it came to state service.
