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How was the court title of lady of state established in Russia?

During the years of the Northern War, the government of Peter I received great material assistance from Russian merchants and industrialists, the Stroganovs, who founded several iron and copper smelters in the Urals. At the end of the war, in 1722, Alexander, Nikolai and Sergei Grigorievich Stroganov became barons, later - counts.

Their mother, Maria Yakovlevna, the tsar styled godmother (he baptized her son Nikolai) and loved her for her thorough housekeeping and prudence. When visiting her, Peter gladly accepted a treat from her hands - homemade liqueur, which Maria was a craftswoman. In 1724, when Peter decided to make his wife Catherine the empress, Maria and her sons filed a petition with him: “We are granted ... In the room of the Empress Princess. And I, your servant, do not know how to behave among others; also my sons do not have any rank for themselves, and by Your Majesty's decree, various ranks and places are assigned to all citizenship according to their ranks, so that everyone knows his dignity among themselves. We ask that I be granted a place, and my children ranks for the sake of the coming national triumph ... "

It was then that the emperor established the court title of state lady, and Maria Stroganova was the first to receive it. Peter granted her his miniature portrait, adorned with diamonds, which she wore on a blue ribbon. Only now the sedate merchant's widow refused to put on a "German outfit" and show off to the whole honest public. Peter, respecting her feelings, allowed her to wear old Russian clothes at court alone.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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