Serfdom disappeared from the records in the fourteenth century and new social groups of labourers, craftsmen and merchants, became important in the developing burghs.
The history of agraphia dates to the mid-fourteenth century, but it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that it sparked significant clinical interest.
A civil servant promoted to the fourteenth grade gained personal nobility ("dvoryanstvo"), and holding an office in the eighth grade endowed the office holder with hereditary nobility.
