BOYARS

bōyärzˈ, upper nobility in Russia from the 10th through the 17th cent. The boyars originally obtained influence and government posts through their military support of the Kievan princes. Their power and prestige, however, soon came to depend almost completely on landownership. The boyars occupied the highest state offices and through a council advised the prince. When political power shifted to Moscow in the 14th and 15th cent., the boyars retained their influence. However, as the Moscow grand princes consolidated their power, the influence of the boyars was gradually eroded, particularly under Ivan III and Ivan IV. Their ancient right to leave the service of one prince for another was curtailed, as was their right to hold land without giving obligatory service to the czar. The political turmoil of the so-called time of troubles further weakened the boyars, and in the 17th cent. the rank and title of boyar was abolished by Peter I.

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Beijing Street Voices: The Poetry and Politics of China's Democracy Movement
Book by David S. G. Goodman; M. Boyars, 1981
Subjects: China--Politics And Government--1976-, Civil Rights Movements--China
First published in Great Britain and the United States in 1981 by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd 18 Brewer Street, London W1R 4AS and Marion Boyars Publishers Inc 99 Main Street, Salem, New Hampshire 03079 Australian and New Zealand...
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Creativity and Disease: How Illness Affects Literature, Art, and Music
Book by Philip Sandblom; Marion Boyars, 1992
Subjects: Creative Ability, Medicine And The Humanities, Sick--Psychology
...published in the United States and Great Britain in 1996 by Marion Boyars Publishers, 237 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 and...editions. First paperback edition published in 1992 by Marion Boyars Publishers. This revised ninth edition Philip Sandblom 1996...
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Genocide: The Psychology of Mass Murder
Book by Peter du Preez; Boyars/Bowerdean, 1994
Subjects: Genocide--History, Genocide--Psychological Aspects
First published in 1994 jointly by the Bowerdean Publishing Co.Ltd., 8 Abbotstone Rd, London SW15 1QR and Marion Boyars Publishers, 24 Lacy Rd., London SW15 1NL and 237 East 39th St., New York, NY 10016 Distributed in Australia and New...
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Discipline and Authority in Classroom and Courtroom
Book by John Wilson; Boyars/Bowerdean, 1995
Subjects: Authority, Discipline
First published in 1995 jointly by the Bowerdean Publishing Co. Ltd., 8 Abbotstone Rd, London SW15 1QR and Marion Boyars Publishers, 24 Lacy Rd., London SW15 1NL and 237 East 39th St., New York, NY 10016 Distributed in Australia and New...
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Understanding Capitalism: How Economies Work
Book by Brian Kantor; Boyars/Bowerdean, 1995
Subjects: Capitalism, Economics
UNDERSTANDING CAPITALISM How economies work Brian Kantor BRIEFINGS Series Editor: Peter Collins BOYARS/BOWERDEAN LONDON. NEW YORK
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Political Folkways and Praying for the Dead in Muscovy: Reconsidering Edward Keenan's "slight" against the Church
Journal article by Russell E. Martin; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 48, 2006
Subjects: Behavior, Marriage, Nonfiction, Religion, Russian history
...between the ruler and the boyars that at once secured...occupied principally by the boyars, who then formed a sort...class, characterized the boyar oligarchical elite...conspiracy among the boyars and their wives, but...laid at the feet of the boyar Boris Ivanovich Morozov...
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Stephen the Great: Leadership and Patronage on the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Frontier
Journal article by Randal H. Munsen; East European Quarterly, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Alcoholic beverages--Comparative analysis, Alcoholic beverages--Research, Alcoholic beverages--Social aspects, Breweries--Comparative analysis, Breweries--Research, Breweries--Social aspects, Brewing industry--Comparative analysis, Brewing industry--Research, Brewing industry--Social aspects, Wine industry--Comparative analysis, Wine industry--Research, Wine industry--Social aspects, Wineries--Comparative analysis, Wineries--Research, Wineries--Social aspects
...in many ways these Moldavian boyars resembled those found in the...Vlach Romanian chieftains, or boyars" (1964:11). The power of these boyars was however, balanced by a...his throne as the result of a boyar revolt against Aron with the...
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Segmentation Vs. Consolidation: the Example of Four Gypsy Groups in Cis
Journal article by Elena Marushiakova, Vesselin Popov; Romani Studies, Vol. 14, 2004
Subjects: Community, Consolidation, Gypsies
...slaves of the monasteries and Boyars, too, acquired the status...The situation of the former Boyar and Monastery slaves was more...serfs from the old Bessarabian boyars, from the new Russian landlords...the categories slaves of the Boyars and slaves of the monasteries...
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Ann Quin
Journal article by Brian Evenson, Joanna Howard; The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Vol. 23, 2003
Subjects: Authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Quin, Ann--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...237). Her publisher, Marion Boyars, reinforces this when, while acknowledging...in any case, for her publisher Marion Boyars to feel that they could publish it as...Press, 2001. Three. London: Calder Boyars, 1966; New York: Scribners, 1966...
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The Discreet Charm of the Little Sister: France and Romania
Journal article by Doina Harsanyi, Nicolae Harsanyi; East European Quarterly, Vol. 28, 1994
Subjects: Cultural relations--History, France, French foreign relations--Romania, Romania, Romanian foreign relations--France
...One can imagine a Romanian boyar, lying on his sofa, dressed...was quite a change for these boyars.) But the trend slowly gained...Phanariots, and a selected number of boyars employed French secretaries...homes of the most respectable boyars: around 1800 the bishop of...
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A Balkan Comedy
Magazine article by William Mcpherson; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 21, Summer 1997
Subjects: Ceausescu, Nicolae--Influence, Romania--Politics and government, Romanians--Conduct of life
...clear: if the king should return, the boyars (owners of the old landed estates) must soon follow. The boyars will seize your land, your houses and...king, and the king will bring back the boyars," he said, repeating, as if it were...
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Rough Justice
Magazine article by John Steane; Musical Times, Vol. 139, Winter 1998
...the scarlet officers and furry-bearded boyars gave colour. The furnishings of the Tsars...lounge-suit for his Coronation, the boyars in conference are black-suited bureaucrats...contrived so that he shall be caught by the boyars, and very naturally (for Tomlinson is...
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Schism and Russia's Old Believers
Magazine article by Vladimir Druzhelyubov; Contemporary Review, Vol. 289, Winter 2007
Subjects: Old Believers--Political aspects, Raskolniks--Political aspects, Religion and politics--Analysis, Russian Orthodox Eastern Church, Schism--Analysis
...pretext for the Schism. The representatives of the nobility, the boyars, and the highest priesthood were protecting their class privileges...served to sustain the class interests and privileges of some boyars and priests, then helped the toiling classes in their struggles...
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Shiny Shoots of Leather
Magazine article by Tim Burrows; New Statesman, Vol. 139, February 1, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Velvet Underground: a New York Art (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...tides and debt. Society does not need a mirror to reflect back its own hypocrisy; we are swimming in it. Tim Burrows is the author of "From CBGB to the Roundhouse: Music Venues Through the Years" (Marion Boyars, pounds sterling9.99)
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Rascoala the Last Peasants' Revolt: In Early 1907 the Peasants of Romania Rose Up against Feudal Laws, Wealthy Landowners and the Agents Who Kept Them Living in Penury and Servitude. Markus Bauer Discusses the Legacy of an 'Unbelievable Bloodbath'
Magazine article by Markus Bauer; History Today, Vol. 60, September 2010
Subjects: Peasant uprisings--History, Revolutions--History, Romanian history
...of the population. In contrast, over half the agricultural land was in the ownership of a handful of wealthy landowners (boyars), most of whom lived in cities or abroad and were largely absent from their estates. Their land was administered for them...
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Beachcroft Earn Trade Plaudits
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), June 15, 2009
...Marie Rugeris and Gary Hay from Capstick with winners Nicola Boyars, Seema Basudev and Barinder Takhi from Beachcroft LLP and runners...Pettis (FR110609TRAD-1) Winners Barinder Takhi, Nicola Boyars and Seema Basudev from Beachcroft LLP. (FR110609TRAD-7)
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Balloon Goes Up for Appeal; THE GREAT TRADE UP
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 16, 2009
Subjects: Children's hospitals
...worth more than pounds 400. Injury risk solicitor Nicola Boyars is leading the charge at Beachcroft. She said: "It is fantastic...Fidelis Hynam. Picture, JEREMY PARDOEJP120209Gift-04; Nicola Boyars, left, from Beechcroft LLP from Brindley-place and Karl...
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Classical
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), March 5, 2010
...is the main work, but there is an Andante religioso for violin and orchestra, Suite from Maskerade, and his March of the Boyars with which he had a hit, and rightly so. Equally agreeable are the two Piano Concertos of Wilhelm Stenhammer, the Swedish...
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Lawyers Back on Top; THE GREAT TRADE UP
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 30, 2009
Subjects: Attorneys, Lawyers
...resin painting, BudlakeFalls, whichis valuedatpounds 6,000, for a free party at downtown Bar 110 on Colmore Row. Nicola Boyars, the head of the Beachcroft team, said: "A few years ago I had actually bought a few pictures from Charlotte Latham, and...
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Health Book of the Week; Family Health
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 12, 2009
Subjects: Books, Family medicine, Royal Society of Medicine
...Norwich South, practised as a doctor for over 40 years. Here he reviews The Good Body Guide by Dr Carole Hungerford (Marion Boyars Publishers, pounds sterling9.99). NO HOUSEHOLD is complete without a sound medical dictionary. For generations, Blacks...
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Boyars
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...14th and 15th cent., the boyars retained their influence...power, the influence of the boyars was gradually eroded, particularly...troubles further weakened the boyars, and in the 17th cent. the rank and title of boyar was abolished by Peter I...
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Romania
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...except for a few great landlords, the boyars) to a group of nomadic shepherds and...constitutions giving extensive rights to the boyars were promulgated in Walachia (1831...both foreign control and the power of the boyars. The uprising, secretly welcomed by...
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Ivan Iv
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...alternated among several feuding boyar families (see boyars ). Boyar rule ended only in 1546, when...the arbitrary powers of the boyar provincial governors, transferring...elected officials. The former boyars council was replaced by a...
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Ivan crushed the opposition of the great feudal nobles the boyars and set up an autocratic government. After the reign of the...entered Moscow according to an agreement concluded with the boyars. However, in 1612, Russian forces led by Prince Dmitri Pozharski...
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Walachia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...governed by its own princes under Turkish suzerainty. Like Moldavia, it was torn by strife among the great landowners (or boyars) and among rival claimants to the throne; lawlessness prevailed. Prince Vlad the Impaler (reigned 1456 62) restored some...
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