I Am Reading This Fascinating Paper 'Education And Aristocratic Childhood In Late Imperial Russia' By

I am reading this fascinating paper 'Education and Aristocratic Childhood in Late Imperial Russia' by Zbyněk Vydra, and came across this paragraph that I think sums up what makes the former Russian Empire so interesting:

It is also impossible to deal with the nobility as a whole. The simple reason being that the hereditary nobility in Russia was very heterogeneous and numerous. At the end of the 19th century, there were about 1.2 million people, i.e. around 200,000 families. Within one estate (soslovie) it stretched from close proximity to the imperial throne, the world of the St. Petersburg and Moscow palaces, through the bureaucratic nobility in sleepy provincial towns, to impoverished nobles eking out a living at the level of wealthier peasants in the remote countryside. We are mainly interested in the part of the nobility situated at the highest level ‒ the aristocracy.

It is impossible to reference the nobility in this setting as a shorthand for one form of life. When using it as inspiration in a fantasy setting, like Bardugo does, there is an opportunity for a rich variety of people who set themselves apart from the peasantry. It brings in questions of origin and history, rather than wealth and power, and it can hint at changing fortunes and societal landslides.

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