Peter’s Manifesto

The average pleb in Russia could be subject to conscription, and for quite some time so too could the lofty nobles (this is not to say that the standing of nobles and commoners would have been the same in the military). Often when we, the layperson, think of nobility we think of resplendent clothing, and vast wealth, but not necessarily of mandatory military service. But with the issue of a certain manifesto by Peter III, this mandatory service was not longer a threat to the aristocrats of Russia.