General coat of arms of the noble families of the all-Russian Empire, started in 1797. Part five.

General coat of arms of the noble families of the all-Russian Empire, started in 1797. Part five.
St. Petersburg, [1836-1840] Broke up into separate sheets and notebooks, hotel sheets in poor condition; temporary and household stains; traces of moisture; scorched sheets of the second part of the herbarium increased fragility; sheets of the Second and Third sections [coats of arms from 137 to 150] crumble in the hands; coats of arms 149-150-losses affecting the text; the back cover is missing.

[The General coat of arms of the noble families of the Russian Empire is a set of coats of arms of the Russian noble families, which was established by the decree of Emperor Paul I of January 20, 1797. It includes more than 3000 generic and several dozen personal coats of arms. The Manifesto of January 20, 1797 States: "1. All the coats of arms entered in the coat of arms, to leave forever indispensable, so that without our special order, or our successors, nothing is excluded from them under any form, and nothing is added to them again. 2. Each nobleman of the family whose coat of arms is in the coat of arms [ ... ] to issue on parchment for a staple exact copies from the coat of arms of this family and from the description at that located. 3. In cases where it is necessary for someone to prove the dignity of the nobility of their family, to accept as the surest proof of it this common coat of arms drawn up by our order of the noble families, which is to be kept in our Senate."

The first ten parts of the General herbarium Were printed in the amount of 600 copies. Their coats of arms are engraved in black and white reproduction (shades of gray). The next ten parts were not published and exist in a single copy. The twenty-first part of the General coat of arms is a collection of 61 coats of arms approved by the Governing Senate in the period June 1-November 22, 1917.]