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  2. Russian nobility - Wikipedia

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    The Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (Russian: дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages. In 1914, it consisted of approximately 1,900,000 members, out of a total population of 138,200,000. [ 1 ] Up until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian noble estates staffed most of the Russian government and possessed a self-governing body ...

  3. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    In private, his wife addressed him as Nicki, in the German manner, rather than Коля (Kolya), which is the East Slavic short form of his name. The "short name" (Russian: краткое имя kratkoye imya), historically also "half-name" (Russian: полуимя poluimya), is the simplest and most

  4. Category:Russian noble families - Wikipedia

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    Gamontov (Russian nobility) Gantimurov family; Garakanidze; Garsevanishvili; List of Georgian princely families; House of Golitsyn; Gorchakov; Grabbe family; Greig (Russian nobility) Gruzinsky; Gugunava; Guramishvili; Gurgenidze (noble family)

  5. List of Don Cossacks noble families - Wikipedia

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    Count of the Russian Empire in 1812. He was awarded an honorary degree of low by the University of Oxford (1814). Grabbe family: 18th – today Count (since 1866) Don Cossacks noble family of a Finnish nobility origin. Paul Hrisztoforovicz Graf Grabbe (1789—1875) was a Russian Full General of Cavalry in time of Napoleonic Wars. Golubintzev family

  6. List of grand duchesses of Russia - Wikipedia

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    With the exception of Charlotte-Christine, women marrying into the Imperial family converted to Russian Orthodoxy (except for the Montenegrin and Greek princesses, who were already Orthodox). They also took Russian names — of the 17 converts: four took patronyms using their fathers' names, eight took Fyodorovna (after the Feodorovskaya Icon ...

  7. List of saints in the Russian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    This list of saints in the Russian Orthodox Church includes only people canonized as saints by the Russian Orthodox Church, or the preceding Metropolis of Kiev and all Rus'. Saints are sorted by their first names. Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow canonised a total of 39 saints at two Church councils held in 1547 and 1549, and later added 8 more ...

  8. List of Russian princely families - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of princely families of Russia (Russian Empire) The list includes: families of «natural» Russian princely stock - descended from old Russian dynasties (Rurik Dynasty) and Lithuania (Gediminovich and others); families, whose princely titles were granted by Russian Emperors; foreign princely families naturalised in Russia;

  9. Skarżyński - Wikipedia

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    The Orthodox branch of the Skarzhinsky family belonged to the richest land owning Russian nobility and played a prominent role in the history of Russia, and Ukraine. [1] [13] [14] [7] [9] [15] They owned thousands of acres of land throughout the territory of the Russian Empire from western Belarus to central and southern regions of Ukraine. [7]