petty bourgeois--how old?

[Jules Levin]

How old is the phrase "melkiy burzhua/burzhuy"?
If used in the 19th Century, would it have been used as an official 
class or category, or only in the
rhetorical style of certain circles?
Jules Levin
Los Angeles

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