Excerpt from History of Russia, From the Earliest Times to 1880, Vol. 2 of 2: Including a History of the Turko-Russian War of 1877-78, From the Best Authorities; Three Volumes Bound in Two; Vol. II. Part II., Vol. III
From seventeen hundred and sixty-six to seventeen hun dred and sixty-eight, Catherine the Second assembled, first at Moscow and afterwards at Saint Petersburg, the commission for the compilation of the new code. This commission was composed of deputies from all the services of the State, from all the orders and all the races of the empire. Besides the delegates from the senate, the synod, and the colleges and the courts of police, the nobles elected a representative for each district, the citizens one for every City, the free colonists one for every province, the soldiers, militia, and other fighting men also one for each province the Crown peasants, the fixed tribes, whether Christians or not, equally elected one for each province the deputation of the Cossack armies was fixed by their atamans.
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