The boyars of Moldavia and Wallachia were the nobility of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The title was either inherited or granted by the Hospodar, often together with an admin
Vornic Șerban Grădișteanu wearing an işlic, an indication of his boyar rank
A boyar's wife; drawing of 1729
Hospodar Nicholas Mavrogenes and the boyar council
Boyar Iordache Filipescu, dressed in the Phanariote boyar fashion, sitting on a divan
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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.
Boyars of Moldavia and Wallachia
…within the obște towards a stratification of the members of the community. The creation of the feudal domain in which the landlords were known as boyars, was mostly through danii ("donations") system: the Hospodars gave away whole villages to military servants, usurping the right of property of the…
Portrait of Russian boyar Pyotr Potemkin by Godfrey Kneller
Russian boyars in the 16th–17th centuries
A mounted Russian boyar from the 17th century