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