Glossary of Russian nobility and royalty

Categories of Russian nobility and Russian royalty

• Knyaz (as ancient ruler), knyaginya, knyazhna (daughter)
  • Velikiy Knyaz (Grand Duke, Grand Prince, as a ruler)
• Boyar
• Tsar (Emperor), Tsaritsa (Tsarina) (Empress, Empress consort)
  • Tsar family
    • Tsesarevich
    • Tsarevich, Tsarevna
    • Velikiy Knyaz (Grand Prince, Grand Duke) (as an aristocratic title), Velikaya Knyaginya (Grand Princess), Velikaya Knyazhna (Grand Princess)
• Dvoryanstvo
  • Titled Dvoryanstvo (titulovannoye dvoryanstvo)
    • Count
    • Baron
    • Knyaz (as title)

Hierarchy before Peter the Great

File:Царской стольникъ.jpg

Tsar's stolnik

According to Gerhard Friedrich Müller's Template:Lang:<ref> Миллер Ф. И. Известия о дворянах российских. St. Petersburg, 1790, p.30</ref>

1. ru:Бояре
2. ru:Окольничие
3. ru:Думные дворяне
4. ru:Стольники
5. ru:Стряпчие
6. ru:Дворяне
7. Жильцы
8. ru:Дети боярские

See also

• Table of Ranks