The analysis of the classifi cation of the privileged categories from Bessarabia in the state system of the Russian Empire can bring clarifi cations both in the Tsarist Colonial Policy and in terms of the attitude and actions of the Moldovan nobility in preserving its political and social individuality. The investigation of the legal aspects regarding redefi nition of the status of privileged categories under the new administration highlights the Moldovan boyars’ attempt to preserve their administrative rights in Bessarabia, as well as the phenomenon of adaptation to the new political conditions by the recognizing the noble status and by classifying the local boyars in the category of ”dvorenime”.The research of the new categories of sources that constitute evidences with legal valency contributes to the reconstitution of the drama from the transition period in the history of Bessarabia in which the individual seeks ways and solutions for integration and adaptation. In the context of these profound social mutations, the family acts appears as evidences with legal valences in those actions that defi ne and characterize the interests of man in society: those of obtaining, recognizing, regaining of legitimate social rights and property right, and those of individual or collective dignity manifestion.