Ivan the Terrible
Letopisei
SEER
Slavonic and East European Review

Brief Glossary
boyar, boyaryn'ia
highest rank in aristocracy, usually member of the Council
chashnik
cupbearer
gosudar', gosudaryn'ia
lord, lady
duma, dumnyy
Council, of the Council
d'iak
secretary
dvor
court (of the tsar, or of nobles); also courtyard
dvorets
palace
dvoretskii
major-domo
dvorianin, dvoriane
gentry, noble
gost'
privileged merchant
kaznachei
treasurer
kholop
bondsman
kniaz', kniaginia, kniazhna
prince, princess, unmarried daughter
kormlenie
receipt of maintenance
kravchii
equerry with various duties
namestnik
governor, lieutenant
okol'nichi
attendant on the tsar
pod'iachii
clerk
pomest'ye, ia
estate held on service tenure
postel'nichii
chamberlain
prikaz, izba
government office
rynda
armed page, guard
samoderzhavie
sovereignty
samoderzhets
sovereign, sole ruler, self-upholder (Eng.) Selbstherrscher (Ger.)
spal' nik
gentleman of the bedchamber
stol'nik
steward
strelets, strel'tsy
harquebusiers
striapchii
master of the wardrobe and other functions
vedro
pail, liquid measurement
voevoda
commandant, general, senior officer

Select Bibliography
    All sources will be mentioned in full in footnotes when first quoted and subsequently with shortened titles.
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    Alef, G., ‘Belskies and Shuiskies in the XVIth Century’, FOG 38 (Berlin 1986), pp. 221–40.
    —— ‘Das Erlöschen des Abzugsrechts der Moskauer Bojaren’, FOG 10 (Berlin 1975), pp. 7–74.
    Amosov, A.A., Litsevoi letopisnyi svod Ivana Groznogo. Kompleksnoe kodikologicheskoe issledovanie , Moscow, 1998.
    Andreyev, N.E., ‘Kurbsky's Letters to Vasyan Muromtsev’, reprinted in his Studies in Muscovy , Variorum Reprints, London, 1970, pp. 414–36.
    —— Studies in Muscovy: Western Influence and Byzantine Inheritance , Variorum Reprints, London, 1970.
    Arel, M.S., ‘!“The Lawes of Russia Writte” ’. An English Manuscript on Muscovy at the End of the Sixteenth Century’, Oxford Slavonic Papers , ns 23 (1999), pp. 13–38.
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    Babichenko, D., ‘Kremlevskie tainy 33–1 element’, Itogi 37 (327), 17 September 2002.
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    —— ‘Treason as a Concept and Defections from Moscow to Lithuania in the Sixteenth Century’, FOG 15, pp. 119–44.
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