The monograph is made within the framework of historical and legal science and is devoted to a comprehensive study of the Russian model of organizational and legal registration of the social structure. This problem is considered in dynamics in the chronological framework from the middle of the XVII century. to the beginning of the XX century. The essential characteristics of both the system of legal status of a person and the organizational and legal mechanism for changing the individual legal status, i.e. the mechanism of social mobility, are analyzed. The author's concept of classification of national models of social stratification is proposed.