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Boyar - Wikipedia A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus' (and later Russia), Moldavia and Wallachia (and later Romania), Lithuania and among Baltic Germans
Boyar | Russian Aristocracy Feudalism | Britannica boyar, member of the upper stratum of medieval Russian society and state administration In Kievan Rus during the 10th–12th century, the boyars constituted the senior group in the prince’s retinue (druzhina) and occupied the higher posts in the armed forces and in the civil administration
Boyars | Encyclopedia. com In the broadest sense, every privileged landowner could be called a boyar; in a narrower sense, the term refers to a senior member of a prince's retinue during the tenth through thirteenth centuries, and marked the highest court rank during the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries
Boyars - Oxford Reference However, as the grand princes of Muscovy consolidated their own power, they managed to curb boyar independence From the 15th to the 17th centuries Muscovite boyars formed a closed aristocratic class drawn from about 200 families
Boyar – Russiapedia Of Russian origin - RT Boyar feasts in Russia could easily compete with Roman banquets with their bounty of dishes and beverages on the table At least a hundred courses were served on gold and silver trays, and one’s refusal to eat or drink meant offending the host, that is, the Tsar
boyar - Wiktionary, the free dictionary boyar (plural boyars) (historical) A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania
Boyar - Wikiwand A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus' (and later Russia), Moldavia and Wallachia (and later Romania), Lithuania and among Baltic Germans
Boyar - Encyclopedia BOYAR (Russ boyarin, plur boyare), a dignity of Old Russia conterminous with the history of the country Originally the boyars were the intimate friends and confidential advisers of the Russian prince, the superior members of his druzhina or bodyguard, his comrades and champions