. . "The Table of Ranks (Russian: \u0422\u0430\u0431\u0435\u043B\u044C \u043E \u0440\u0430\u043D\u0433\u0430\u0445; tabel' o rangakh) was a formal list of positions and ranks in the military, government, and court of Imperial Russia. Peter the Great introduced the system in 1722 while engaged in a struggle with the existing hereditary nobility, or boyars. The Table of Ranks was formally abolished on 11 November 1917 by the newly established Bolshevik government."@en .