Rank books or ranks (according to old terminology) - were an official magazine that noted the reason and procedure for using the service military forces of the state and, in general, the placement of service people. In addition, they recorded "circling heads in Moscow to protect themselves from fire and from any theft" and "records of accounts" at the end of each year. They began to be compiled from 1471 and continued until 1682, when almost all of them were burned. R. books were kept in a discharge order in order to determine the rank of military, court and civil service and hereditary elders of service people. The ranks determined the development of localism. A special part of them, the nature of the unofficial, was the so-called "Palace categories," or "everyday palace notes,"...