1) Bygone russian aristocrat 2) Czarist noble 3) Noble of old Russia 4) Nobleman of old russia 5) Old Russian noble 6) Russian aristocrat
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A boyar, or bolyar (боляр or болярин; буй or боярин; p=bɐˈjarʲɪn; boier, Ro-boier.ogg; βογιάρος), was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Bulgarian, Moscovian, Kievan Rus`ian, Wallachian, and Moldavian aristocracies, second only to the ruling princes (in Bulgaria, tsars), from the 10th century to the 17th c....
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[caste] The Boyar are a caste with origins in India. ==Etymology of the word `Boyar`== Max Vasmer believed that the Indian word boyar is etymologically related to the Turkic word Boyar and that it was also adopted in a number of Slavic languages. He thought it to be composed of the roots bai (`noble`, distinguished) and ar (`man`);. ...
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• (n.) Alt. of Boyard
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member of the upper stratum of medieval Russian society and state administration. In Kievan Rus during the 10th–12th century, the boyars constituted ... [8 related articles]
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Landowner in the Russian aristocracy. During the 16th century boyars formed a powerful interest group threatening the tsar's power, until their influence was decisively broken in 1565 when Ivan the...
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member of the upper stratum of medieval Russian society and state administration. Boyars were generally drawn from about 200 families, descended from former princes, old Moscow boyar families and foreign aristocrats; and they participated in a boyar council that helped the czar direct the internal and foreign affairs of state. Conferred by the rule...
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A hereditary nobleman in Muscovy (q.v.) and the early Russian Empire (q.v.).
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a member of the old nobility of Russia, before Peter the Great made rank dependent on state service. · a member of a former privileged class in Rumania.
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Between the tenth and seventeenth centuries, a member of the upper level of the nobility and state administration in Kievan Rus' and Muscovy. Abolished as a class by Peter the Great.
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