Barsukov A. Russian Noble Assembly in Moscow according to preserved archival documents. With the Appendix of the ...

Barsukov A. Russian Noble Assembly in Moscow according to preserved archival documents. With the Appendix of the Rules Of the Russian Noble Assembly of 1803 and the Charter of 1849.
Moscow. In the Synodal printing house, 1886. 34, XXXII c. Publisher's cover, slightly enlarged format (16.5 x 25 cm). The cover is dirty and worn; stamps, inventory numbers.

[The appearance of the Moscow Noble Assembly belongs to the "Golden age" of the Russian nobility, which culminated in the privileged position of the " Charter on the rights, liberties and advantages of the noble Russian nobility "(the so-called Chartered Charter), issued by Empress Catherine II in April 1785.

In 1796, the decree of Catherine II approved the legal status of the Moscow noble community, and it became known as the" Russian Noble Assembly", although this name was officially fixed later.

In the spring of 1812, the grateful Moscow nobility erected a monument to Empress Catherine II in the Great hall Of the house of Noble Assembly.

At first, the Noble Assembly did not have its own permanent home, so in the first years of its existence, Moscow nobles gathered for assemblies (as ballrooms were called until the beginning of the XIX century) in different places: they rented premises in the mansion of Peter Alexandrovich Buturlin on Solyanka, or in the Palace of Prince Cherkassky on Tverskaya street.

In the early 1780s, it was decided to buy their own house for the Moscow nobility. It took a long time to choose a suitable property — so that it was located in a prestigious location in the city center. And, finally, on the money received from the Board of Trustees under the mortgage of the estates, December 19, 1784. The society bought for itself the extensive house of Prince V. M. Dolgorukov at the corner of Okhotny Ryad and Bolshaya Dmitrovka.

The noble Assembly was officially called "Russian" on the basis of the decree of the Committee of Ministers "on naming the Moscow Noble Assembly as The Russian Noble Assembly" of September 20, 1849, which was approved by the Emperor. It read: "1. the House occupied by the Noble Assembly in Moscow is considered the property of the nobility of the Moscow province. 2. In consideration of the fact that... in 1810, the Emperor Alexander Pavlovich was pleased to call this Assembly the "Russian Noble Assembly" and to continue to call it the "Russian Assembly".

Members of the Moscow Noble society could only be hereditary nobles who owned estates in the Moscow province. The house of Noble Assembly had a system of self-government. From among the respected nobles, elders were elected to lead the noble community. 

Since its Foundation, the Moscow Noble Assembly has become one of the most popular places of entertainment in Moscow, "where free people came to enjoy the pleasures of the hostel."]