Baltic nobility in terms of Encyclopaedists

Abstract

The article is devoted to migration of the nobility across the Baltic Sea but is restricted to the view of highly influential co-editors of the famous French Encyclopedia.
There is also a pretext for reflection on the sources of some very meaningful and still vital judgments about the inhabitants of the Baltic lands in 18th century especially in Denmark, Sweden, Livonia, Prussia and the lands belonging to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It should be also mentioned the fact that the Russian Empire, not only entering with an impetus in this world, but also possessing a unique graces of large part of the French Enlightenment philosophers.