Editing Table of Ranks (section)

== Style of address ==
In a way the government, court, military and clergy ranks represented the gentry class of the Russian Empire. Similarly to the noble titles, the rank holders each had their specific [[Forms of address in the Russian Empire|style of address]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+As of 1917 (the year of the monarchy's collapse)
! rowspan="2" |Class
! colspan="2" |Civil, court and military ranks
! colspan="3" |Clergy ranks
! rowspan="2" |Class
|-
!in Russian
!English translation
!in Russian<ref>{{cite web|url=https://culturelandshaft.wordpress.com/%d1%8d%d1%82%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b7/%d0%b8%d1%81%d1%82%d0%be%d0%ba%d0%b8-%d1%81%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%b2%d1%8f%d0%bd/178-2/%d1%82%d0%b0%d0%b1%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8c-%d0%be-%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b3%d0%b0%d1%85/|script-title=ru:"Табели о рангах"…|date=2013-02-05|website=КУЛЬТУРНЫЙ ЛАНДШАФТ|language=ru-RU|access-date=2019-02-25}}</ref>
!English translation
!
|-
|'''K-1'''
| rowspan="2" |Ваше высокопревосходительство
| rowspan="2" |Your High Excellency
| rowspan="2" |Ваше высокопреосвященство, владыко
| rowspan="2" |Your High Eminence,

Lordship
| rowspan="5" |[[Eastern Christian monasticism|Black]]
[[Eastern Christian monasticism|clergy]]
|'''K-1'''
|-
|'''K-2'''
|'''K-2'''
|-
|'''K-3'''
| rowspan="2" |Ваше превосходительство
| rowspan="2" |Your [[Excellency]]
|Ваше преосвященство, владыко
|Your Eminence,

Lordship
|'''K-3'''
|-
|'''K-4'''
| rowspan="2" |Ваше высокопреподобие
| rowspan="2" |Your High Reverence
|'''K-4'''
|-
| rowspan="2" |'''K-5'''
| rowspan="2" |Ваше высокородие
| rowspan="2" |Your [[Hochgeboren|High Born]]
|'''K-5'''
|-
| rowspan="2" |Ваше высокоблагословение
| rowspan="2" |Your High Blessedness
| rowspan="5" |[[Priesthood (Orthodox Church)#Modern usage|White]]
[[Priesthood (Orthodox Church)#Modern usage|clergy]]
|'''K-5'''
|-
|'''K-6'''
| rowspan="3" |Ваше высокоблагородие
| rowspan="3" |Your [[Hochwohlgeboren|High Well Born]]
|'''K-6'''
|-
|'''K-7'''
|Ваше благословение
|Your Blessedness
|'''K-7'''
|-
|'''K-8'''
|Ваше высокоблаговестие
|Your High Evangelism
|'''K-8'''
|-
|'''K-9'''
| rowspan="6" |Ваше благородие
| rowspan="6" |Your [[Wohlgeboren|Well Born]]
(Also applied to the lowest ranks of the nobility: [[Baron]]s, the generic titles of [[Dvoryanin]], [[Pomeshchik]] and landless nobles)
|Ваше благовестие
|Your Evangelism
|'''K-9'''
|-
|'''K-10'''
| colspan="3" rowspan="5" |
|'''K-10'''
|-
|'''K-11'''
|'''K-11'''
|-
|'''K-12'''
|'''K-12'''
|-
|'''K-13'''
|'''K-13'''
|-
|'''K-14'''
|'''K-14'''
|}
Outside that table are the rank of [[Generalissimo|Generalissimus]], which was an honorary title and not a military rank and the title of [[Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'|Patriarch]], which theoretically equaled the eminence of the [[Russian Emperor]], but which [[Peter the Great]] kept vacant between 1700 and 1720 and [[Church reform of Peter the Great|eventually substituted for the collective board]] of the [[Most Holy Synod]], effectively turning the Church into a department of the state.