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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 ...
The history of the Russian Orthodox Church begins with the Christianization of Kievan Rus' in 988 during the reign of Vladimir the Great. [1] [2] In the following centuries, Kiev and later other cities, including Novgorod, Pskov, Rostov, Suzdal and Vladimir, became important regional centers of Christian spirituality and culture. [1]
The family was listed in the first part of the Registers of the Nobility of Russia that became formal in the 19th century at latest. They are mentioned as Orthodox. Russia confirmed their Arms on 1/13 April 1863. All members of the house bear the title prince/princess Engalychev.
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]
Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1909-1989) published his Memoirs of a Survivor: The Golitsyn Family in Stalin's Russia, covering the period from the revolution in 1917 to the entry of the Soviet Union into World War II in 1941. [22] Georgy Sergeyevich Golitsyn (1935–) was a Russian physicist noted for his research on the concept of nuclear winter.
In 1914, there were 55,173 Russian Orthodox churches and 29,593 chapels, 112,629 priests and deacons, 550 monasteries and 475 convents with a total of 95,259 monks and nuns in Russia. [63] The year 1917 was a major turning point in Russian history, and also the Russian Orthodox Church. [64]
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Social estates in the Russian Empire were denoted by the term soslovie (sosloviye), which approximately corresponds to the notion of the estate of the realm. The system of sosloviyes was a peculiar system of social groups in the history of the Russian Empire. In Russian language the terms "сословие" and "состояние" (in the ...