Russian Empire between the First and Second Turkish War.

So here we have the Russian Empire denga, nominal - 1. The year of issue of this coin is 1792, mint: Suzun, Russia. Total circulation – 59.000.

Between her two Turkish wars, Catherine the Great returned to the legislative mania of her early years. Made wise by her experience with the commission of the code of 1767, she turned from Montesquieu to William Blackstone and profited by the administrative knowledge of Jakob Sievers, a skillful adviser of German Baltic origin. She then published in 1775 her statute of provinces, a good piece of organic legislation.

For the first time in Russian history a local unit of administration, judiciary, and self-government was created. This statute introduced a regular system of courts of justice and separate financial and administrative offices. The system lasted until the reforms of Alexander II. The reform of 1775 was completed by two charters granted in 1785 to nobility and to burgesses.

The charter of nobility introduced corporations of local gentry meeting every three years to discuss their affairs and to elect their marshals. It served to perpetuate the power of the ruling class until the liberation of the serfs in 1861, while the burgesses’ charter laid the basis for real municipal self-government.