LISTELE NOBILILOR CU DREPT DE VOT – SURSĂ IMPORTANTĂ ÎN STUDIEREA ISTORIEI NOBILIMII DIN BASARABIA (STUDIU DE CAZ: ALEGERILE NOBILIARE DIN 1847)

Abstract

The Assembly of Deputies of the Bessarabian Nobility represents a supreme deliberative body of the Bessarabian nobility established on the basis of the Regulation of the administrative organization of the Bessarabia region of April 29, 1818, but gradually introduced during the years 1818-1823. According to the Regulation, through the Assembly of Deputies, the nobility of Bessarabia had the right to elect and dismiss the officials of the regional institutions and to appoint the guardians of the landed properties. Respectively, once every 3 years, nobility elections were held in the Bessarabia region, and by order of the governor general, the actual preparation for their organization began. Each county marshal was to present the lists of the nobles who had the right, according to the existing criteria in the legislation, to participate in the elections and to be elected in various positions. The given lists contained information about the name, surname, patronymic, function and age of the noble with the right to participate in the meetings, as well as the number of gypsies and peasants who lived on his estates, the name of the estates, the annual income obtained from them, the ownership of vineyards, orchards, mills of water or wind, factories, etc., as well as the number of the Genealogical Book of the noble families of Bessarabia where the respective claimant was included.