It is a tradition in Russian historiography, that colonial policy in Russia in the end of XIX and the beginning of XX centuries came down to aspects of peasant movement to peripheral areas of Russian Empire, to Siberia particularly. Migration of other social groups was recorded on periphery of scientific mainstream, with many scholars’ telling that it was insignificant in the process of colonization. In this paper the author examines the importance of stratum (soslovie) in migration policy of Late Imperial Russia on social representation of population. In the beginning of XX century there were three groups of population which could move freely within Asiatic Russia, they were village inhabitants (sel’skie obivateli), bourgeois-farmers (meschane-zemledel’tsi) and nobles-tillers (dvoryane-zemlepashtsi). Public self-reflection led to change of this perspective: peasants were no longer perceived as a lower stratum, and other “privilege” groups tbegan to think peasantry to occupy higher priority position in country then they did. The author analyzes different variants of social representations (i. e. demonstration by migration groups their ideas about their position in the social structure) based on petitions to grant land and government aid. The first type of representations is conservative. It is based on the belief in priority of one’s own social status and combined with awareness of impossibility of maintaining an appropriate level of life. It was characteristic for petit nobles, honorary citizens etc. having a small plot of land and being personally engaged in farming. The second type of representation is associated with a utilitarian approach to social status, willingness to change social class to improve house-hold and practical needs. Representatives of this type eventually come to the conclusion that Russian division of society into classes is rather formal. This type of representation is typical for landless nobles taking lease of a piece of land from peasant societies or large land owners. Working out in 1913–14 draft law on all-strata (vsesoslovnom) resettlement to Asian Russia and other colonized regions of the empire became logical resolution of the situation with the resettlement. The idea of all-strata’s resettlement, however, was not to be realized in practice.