Charter for the Rights, Freedoms, and Privileges of the Noble Russian Gentry also called Charter to the Gentry or Charter to the Nobility — charter, issued by the Russian empress Catherine II.

It recognized the corps of nobles in each province as a legal corporate body and stated the rights and privileges bestowed upon its members. Charter was divided into introduction and four sections:

• I. Personal rights and privileges of the gentry.

• II. Corporate self-organization of the gentry. Assemblies of Nobility

• III. Genealogy books.

• IV. Documents, establishing nobility.