Boyar
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A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus', Moldavia and Wallachia, Lithuania and among Baltic Germans.
Portrait of Russian boyar Pyotr Potemkin by Godfrey Kneller
Russian boyars in the 16th–17th centuries
A mounted Russian boyar from the 17th century
Wallachian vornic Șerban Grădișteanu wearing an işlic, an indication of his boyar rank
Russian nobility
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The Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a total population of 138,200,000. Up until the February Revolution of 19
Boyar
…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. Comparable to Dukes/Grand Dukes, Boyars were second only to the ruling…
An assembly of nobility in 1913
Maria Gendrikova's comital charter of 1742
Grand ball in honour of Grand Duke of Finland Alexander II in 1863 in Helsinki, Finland.
Portrait of Princess Leonilla Bariatinskaya, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.