Inge Auerbach, The concept of nobility in sixteenth-century Russia. Since the end of the Middle Ages, the concept of nobility is characterized by a system of values, a style of life and signs such as a blazon and a name. To enjoy the privileges attached to this estate, it is necessary to prove one's nobility by deeds, registers, genealogical trees, or solemn oaths of one's peers. Muscovy ignores all these procedures. There is certainly a hereditary knighthood recognized in the West, but nobles do not possess personal liberty (they are kholopy of the tsar) while placed above the peasants who are free. Nobility is defined by service, so that feminine descent plays but a small part. This service is that of a private person and as from the Musc...
The article examines the historical traditions of the noble culture, which was widely developed in t...
The article focuses on opportunities of Lithuanian nobility to serve in state institutions of their ...
John P. Le Donne, The eighteenth-century Russian nobility: bureaucracy or ruling class? The followin...
Sigurd О. Schmidt, The sense of nobility in Russia from the sixteenth till the first third of the ni...
Historiography for a long time supposed that the Russian nobility, because of its character of servi...
André Berelowitch, Plea for the Muscovite nobility. In respect of affairs of honor in the seventeent...
Michael Confino, The Russian nobility - service, blue blood, and honor: a reexatnination and a compa...
Roger Bartlett, The Russian and the Baltic German nobility in the eighteenth century. As a result of...
Mihail M. Safonov, Imperial power, state apparatus and nobility at the end of the eighteenth century...
In article discusses the historical processes of the status of the nobility in Russia in the XIX ce...
In article discusses the historical processes of the status of the nobility in Russia in the XIX ce...
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together b...
Rok 1917 vnesl do života ruské šlechty a ruské společnosti velké změny. Únorová revoluce svrhla cars...
The present bachelor thesis examines whether the nobility were a homogenous group in terms of privil...
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together b...
The article examines the historical traditions of the noble culture, which was widely developed in t...
The article focuses on opportunities of Lithuanian nobility to serve in state institutions of their ...
John P. Le Donne, The eighteenth-century Russian nobility: bureaucracy or ruling class? The followin...
Sigurd О. Schmidt, The sense of nobility in Russia from the sixteenth till the first third of the ni...
Historiography for a long time supposed that the Russian nobility, because of its character of servi...
André Berelowitch, Plea for the Muscovite nobility. In respect of affairs of honor in the seventeent...
Michael Confino, The Russian nobility - service, blue blood, and honor: a reexatnination and a compa...
Roger Bartlett, The Russian and the Baltic German nobility in the eighteenth century. As a result of...
Mihail M. Safonov, Imperial power, state apparatus and nobility at the end of the eighteenth century...
In article discusses the historical processes of the status of the nobility in Russia in the XIX ce...
In article discusses the historical processes of the status of the nobility in Russia in the XIX ce...
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together b...
Rok 1917 vnesl do života ruské šlechty a ruské společnosti velké změny. Únorová revoluce svrhla cars...
The present bachelor thesis examines whether the nobility were a homogenous group in terms of privil...
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together b...
The article examines the historical traditions of the noble culture, which was widely developed in t...
The article focuses on opportunities of Lithuanian nobility to serve in state institutions of their ...
John P. Le Donne, The eighteenth-century Russian nobility: bureaucracy or ruling class? The followin...