Handbook for local marshals of nobility St. Petersburg, 1887.

"Elected by gentry peers as county marshal of nobility, he became an outspoken writer and active in his rural government."

Then he became the Marshal of Nobility of Grodno gubernia.

Campaigned for the position of Tver Marshal of Nobility, but lost elections.

Each subdivision of a province (Uyezd) also had its elected Marshal of Nobility.

In 1878 he was elected Marshal of Nobility of St. Petersburg Gubernia.

After creation of all-estate Zemstvo local self-government system, Marshals of Nobility presided over Zemstvo assemblies.

Count Sergei Witte described him as "a pleasant Marshal of Nobility, a pleasant governor, a pleasant Deputy Minister of the Interior.

His father Prince Paul Toumanoff (Tumanishvili, 1872-1935) served as Marshal of Nobility of Georgia in the last years of the Russian Empire.

ANNA KARENINA XXVI Sviyazhsky was the marshal of nobility in his district.

In 1772, after the first partition of Poland, in the Russian-occupied part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth an office of the marszałek szlachty (Marshal of Nobility) was created.

The plan was that Snetkov be replaced as marshal of nobility either by Sviyazhsky or, better still, by Nevedovsky, a former professor, a remarkably intelligent man and a great friend of Sergei Ivanovich's.

Sir Eric Fleming (1616-79), provincial governor, president, chamber councillor, afterwards Marshal of Nobility (lantmarskalken) was created Baron of Lais on 12 May 1654 by queen Christina of Sweden.

Marshals of Nobility chaired several local boards, among them Assembly of Nobility, council of Justices of the peace, local education boards, boards that administered drafting of the men into the army etc.

The original plot was considerably altered yet many following adaptations were primarily based on this film rather than on the novel itself (e.g., the former marshal of nobility from the novel was replaced in the Polish-Czech film by a barber who then appeared in several later adaptations).