Valid State Advisor

Valid State Advisor

epaulet
(1883)

shoulder strap
(1901)

Buttonhole to the greatcoat
(1904)

4th grade civil rank in the Rankings

Valid state adviser.
The badge of distinction is galloon buttonholes without gaps with two stars and the emblem of the service department between them. In this case, this is the armature of the Ministry of Railways

The pirate K.K. Medic, who is a member of the Actual State Counselor under the Guard Troops and at the Military Educational Institutions . 1857 year. ^[one]

The real state adviser - the civil rank of the 4th grade of the Table of Ranks (1724-1917, Russian Empire), gave the right to hereditary nobility . Corresponded to the ranks of major general in the army and rear admiral in the navy, and also (in 1809) to the court rank of chamberlain . It was titled " Your Excellency ."

Content

Description

Persons with this rank held the posts of department directors, governors , and city governors . In 1880, the number of persons holding the rank of State Councilor was 2040 people, and by the end of the 1890s, there were already 2687 people ^[2] .

From the middle of the 19th century, the rank of full-time state adviser was in the first of four groups (from the 1st to the 5th grade), which brought together representatives of the bureaucracy who determined the course of state policy. Representatives of this rank had high salaries (350 rubles per month). ^[3] Patriarch Alexy I told the following joke: “One high official is buried. The deacon prays: "... for the repose of the servant of God ..." - and someone in the crowd says: "What kind of" servant of God is he, if he is a real state councilor? "" ^[4] .

For the production in the rank of a valid state adviser, a service life of 10 years has been established since the previous rank was received. Subsequently, the possibility of obtaining this rank after length of service of a certain number of years was abolished. The main condition for assigning a rank was formulated as follows:

There is no deadline for production above the State Counselor (V class), and the award thereof depends solely on the highest permission.
- Universal calendar for 1909. - St. Petersburg: Edition of P.P. Soikin, 1909. - S. 606.

The rank of current state councilor was abolished by the Council of People's Commissars on November 23, 1917, by decree on the destruction of estates and civil ranks ^[5] .

In Russian Fiction

Acting State Counselor Ivan Ilyich Pralinsky ( F. M. Dostoevsky , the story “ A Bad Joke ”)
Actual State Counselor Ivan Z. Storeshnikov ( N. G. Chernyshevsky , novel “ What to do? ”)
Retired State Councilor Pyotr Nikolaevich Sorin ( A.P. Chekhov , the play "The Seagull ")
Actual State Counselor Andrei Stepanovich Peresolin (A. P. Chekhov, the story “Screw”)
Acting State Counselor Ivan Frantsevich Brilling ( B. Akunin , novel Azazel )
Actual State Councilor Erast Fandorin (B. Akunin, novel "The Black City ").
Actual State Councilor Mikhail Vasilievich Ikonin ( L. A. Charskaya )

Notes

↑ Fig. 85. A medic who is a member of the Actual State Counselor under the Guard Troops and at Military Educational Institutions. (In full uniform.) March 15, 1857 // Changes in the uniform and armament of the troops of the Russian Imperial Army from the accession to the throne of the Sovereign Emperor Alexander Nikolaevich (with additions): Compiled by the Highest Command / Comp. Alexander II (Emperor of Russia), ill. Balashov Petr Ivanovich and Pirate Karl Karlovich . - SPb. : Military Printing House, 1857-1881. - Up to 500 copies. - Notebooks 1–111: (With drawings No. 1–661). - 47 × 35 cm.
↑ Sheperev L.E. The official world of Russia. IV. Ranks and ranks
↑ Pre-revolutionary salaries and their equivalents in Soviet and modern money (neopr.) . Telemax-spb .
↑ Metropolitan Pitirim. Memories. His Holiness Patriarch Alexy and his entourage / Orthodoxy.Ru
↑ Decree on the destruction of estates and civil ranks // Decrees of the Soviet government: Sat. doc / Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU; Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences: [multivolume ed.]. - M .: Politizdat, 1957-1997. - T. 1: October 25, 1917 - March 16, 1918 / preparation. S.N. Valk et al . - S. 71-72 . - ISBN 5-250-00390-7 . (ISBN vol. 1 is absent. Tied to: Decrees of the Soviet government: [multivolume]. M., 1957-1997.)

Literature

Table of Ranks // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 ext.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

Junior rank
State Councillor

Report card
Valid State Advisor

Senior rank
Privy Advisor

[1] Fig. 85. A medic who is a member of the Actual State Counselor under the Guard Troops and at Military Educational Institutions. (In full uniform.) March 15, 1857 // Changes in the uniform and armament of the troops of the Russian Imperial Army from the accession to the throne of the Sovereign Emperor Alexander Nikolaevich (with additions): Compiled by the Highest Command / Comp. Alexander II (Emperor of Russia), ill. Balashov Petr Ivanovich and Pirate Karl Karlovich . - SPb. : Military Printing House, 1857-1881. - Up to 500 copies. - Notebooks 1–111: (With drawings No. 1–661). - 47 × 35 cm.

[2] Sheperev L.E. The official world of Russia. IV. Ranks and ranks

[3] Pre-revolutionary salaries and their equivalents in Soviet and modern money (neopr.) . Telemax-spb .

[4] Metropolitan Pitirim. Memories. His Holiness Patriarch Alexy and his entourage / Orthodoxy.Ru

[5] Decree on the destruction of estates and civil ranks // Decrees of the Soviet government: Sat. doc / Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the CPSU; Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences: [multivolume ed.]. - M .: Politizdat, 1957-1997. - T. 1: October 25, 1917 - March 16, 1918 / preparation. S.N. Valk et al . - S. 71-72 . - ISBN 5-250-00390-7 . (ISBN vol. 1 is absent. Tied to: Decrees of the Soviet government: [multivolume]. M., 1957-1997.)