Masiler

Masiler referred to the descendants of civil servants "from older times" in the Bessarabian class order at the time of belonging to Russia in the 19th century . In their position the Masilers were to be compared with the position of the Cossacks and equated with the Ruptaschen . They were in the class order among the boyarunas .

The Masilers had numerous privileges, but were not entirely exempt from taxes. They had to perform Fourier services and paid a tax for families . Corporal punishment could only be carried out on them if a judge gave them a verdict.

Individual evidence

• Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Annals of geography, ethnology and national studies. Volume 12, Grass, Barth & Company, 1841, p. 324 → online
• August Franz von Haxthausen , Wilhelm Kosegarten : Studies on the internal conditions: the people's life and in particular the rural institutions of Russia. In the Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1847, p. 464 → online
• Abroad: weekly for countries and Ethnology. Volume 16, Cotta September 11, 1843, p. 1013 → online