Show ONLY NOBLES AND PEASANTS russia a country where there I 1 Is s no middle class as in the rest of europe contrary to tho the laws existing la in england and sweden in russia when a lady belonging to a titled family marries a russian gentleman without a title sho she tokes takes her husbands hus banas name entirely find and the only right loft left to her ter of her former title la Is to write on her visiting cards and papers mrs so and so born princess countess or baroness Baro nesa so and so iter her children are culled called by their fathers name there aro are only a few exceptions to this rulo rule according to london tit bits in russia no middle class or gentry ore are known there are only nobles and peasants tho the conr however grants sometimes for special merit the tha right to be styled a nobleman and also for uio same reason tho the titles of count and baron and occasionally that of prince ul all those merchants who have kept erma nourishing flourishing for a hundred years haye the right to tn receive tiie the title of 0 6 baron n this law was made by rotor peter the great over years yeara ago but the merchants very seldom accept this german title and generally gene rully decline tho the privilege informer Inform lu former or days when tho the peasants were still slaves cloves they had no famil family y guinea but were called by their fathers christian name peters son was called son of peter in russian so also sint SI simons mens son ivanov ivonov ivans jolin john son and so on when slavery was abolished and tho the emancipation ci proclaimed by tho the emperor alexander 11 II they all kept those these names since then many of them have received tile the right to belong to the class of nobles tho the russian clergy belonging to the class of peasants for it very seldom beldom happens that nobles become priests have special family faintly names their names mean always a feast day or a precious stone or something connected with tile the church in former days tile tho clergy was a clays class apart and a son eon of a clergyman was bound to be a clergyman and when they first entered tho the church they chose a name tw tl atma ma selves salves |