| Titre | Sources of boyar power in the seventeenth century [The descendants of the upper Oka serving princes] | |
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| Auteur | Robert O. Crummey | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 34, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1993 Noblesse, État et société en Russie XVIe - début du XIXe siècle | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | II |
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| Page | 107-118 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Robert O. Crummey, Sources of boyar power in the seventeenth century: the descendants of the upper Oka serving princes.
This paper analyzes the sources of power of the aristocratic elements within the boyar elite in the seventeenth century by examining one group of clans, the descendants of the upper Oka serving princes. Whether these clans carried any significant traces of their former independence into the seventeenth century is one of the underlying issues of this study. The article analyzes the following characteristics of those upper Oka princely clans which were represented in the Boyar Duma between 1613 and 1689 (the Mezetskiis, Mosal'skiis, Mstislavskiis, Odoevskiis, Trubetskois and Vorotynskiis): service careers, landholding, rank, marriage alliances, and self-image.
In most respects, the descendants of the upper Oka princes differed very little from the other aristocratic clans, princely and non-titled, which made up the boyar aristocracy in the seventeenth century. Their position demonstrates the successful state-building activity of the rulers of sixteenth-century Muscovite Russia and the remarkable capacity of the evolving boyar elite to adjust to changing conditions and to absorb newcomers into its ranks. Moreover, in the changing patterns of their careers and lives, we begin to observe phenomena that could characterize the upper echelons of the Russian nobility in the eighteenth century. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1993_num_34_1_2338 |
