Glossary: boyar
DEFINITION:
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.
DEFINITION:
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.