Assertion: personal nobility | /r/HasProperty | acquired in following ways
Facets:
value: by imperial grant
type: OTHER
value: except merchants
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Personal nobility could be acquired in the following ways: 1) by Imperial grant; 2) by attaining the 14th military rank of ensign or the 9th civil rank of Titular Councillor; 3) by being awarded the orders of the Russian Empire unless those gave hereditary nobility; except merchants (unless those were awarded between 1826 and 1832), who acquired honorary citizenship instead.