| In the 10th to 12th centuries the boyars formed the senior levels of the princes' retinues. |
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| The boyars and their fortified towns submitted to Samuil's supreme authority. |
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| Easter Sunday of 1459, Vlad invited all of the aristocrats, called boyars, who had played a role in his father's death, to a feast. |
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| From the 15th to the 17th centuries Muscovite boyars formed a closed aristocratic class drawn from about 200 families. |
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| It is a lot of centuries ago in such houses notable boyars liked to have fun at night. |
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| Some buffoons served at boyars and princes, singing of military feats and affairs of our ancestors. |
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| To them there corresponded two groups of feudal lords-land owners: boyars and landowners. |
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| He ruled in an increasingly arbitrary and absolutist fashion, brutalizing the aristocratic boyars in a decade-long period of terror known as the oprichnina. |
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| The boyars were increasingly nervous that defeats abroad would lead to accusations of treason at home. |
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| A group of Russian boyars signed in 1610 a treaty of peace, recognising Ladislaus IV of Poland, son of Polish king Sigismund III Vasa, as tsar. |
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| As in the Byzantine Empire, the Roma were held as slaves of the state, of the boyars or of the monasteries. |
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| Peter began requiring the nobility to wear Western clothing and shave off their beards, an action that the boyars protested bitterly. |
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| Cossacks were usually organized by Ruthenian boyars or princes of the nobility, especially various Lithuanian starostas. |
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| With the continuing assistance of a group of boyars, Ivan began his reign with a series of useful reforms. |
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| The boyars sent Ivan a delegation requesting that he return to the throne. |
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| For the next seven years, the oprichnina subjected Russia to a reign of terror, arresting and executing boyars for treason and confiscating their estates, which were promptly awarded to the oprichniki themselves. |
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| During the late 1550s, Ivan developed a hostility toward his advisers, the government, and the boyars. |
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| In these areas, Ivan's agents attacked boyars, merchants, and even common people, summarily executing some and confiscating land and possessions. |
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| Six years later, he was summoned by Halychian boyars to rule their city but could not effectively claim the throne. |
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| According to his own letters, Ivan, along with his younger brother Yuri, often felt neglected and offended by the mighty boyars from the Shuisky and Belsky families. |
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| By that time, the boyars had largely merged with the new elite, who were obligatory servitors of the state, to form a new nobility, the dvoryanstvo. |
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| In times of war, boyars were compelled by the feudal system of allegiance to supply the prince with troops in accordance with the extent of their manorial domain. |
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| During his troubled relations with the boyars, the tsar even asked her for a guarantee to be granted asylum in England should his rule be jeopardized. |
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| Known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad III Dracula, he immediately put to death the boyars who had conspired against his father and was characterized as both a hero and a villain. |
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| Ivan's creation of the Oprichnina, answerable only to him, not only afforded him personal protection but curtailed the traditional powers and rights of the boyars. |
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