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I've seen many documents where it's written that this or that person was a noble/owned some sort of coat of arms/owned entitled land. I have never gotten the point of that existing in the Russian empire after the Commonwealth ceased to exist.

Why, during russification and oppression, was nobility recognized in Polish and Lithuanian lands?

Y-Haplogroup Distribution of Russian Nobility

25.4% NOQCD (Asiatic haplogroups)

25.4% of the Russian nobility got gilded by Asiatic forefathers, meaning 25.4% of the Russian nobility had an asian male ancestor.

Source:https://www.familytreedna.com/public/RussianNobilityDNA?iframe=ycolorized

Why was Tsarina Alexandra so hated for being German, and why was their marriage so controversial? Nicholas' mother was from the Danish royal family, but at the time the Danish royal family was of primarily German descent, and his paternal grandmother was German as well, his paternal grandfather had a German mother, and so on. Why was it such a big deal when Russian-German marriage had been going on for centuries?

This is a very specific question. I was reading The Uncle's Dream by Dostoyevsky where this mother wants to marry her daughter to an old, supposedly rich, senile prince. The mother argues that her daughter could finally leave their dirty town and go abroad. And the prince also talks about foreign countries a lot. It's like he doesn't even live in Russia.

What was the Russian nobility's situation in this regard? Did they just travel a lot? I'm a bit confused.

I add a short part from the novella:

""You would leave for ever this loathsome little town, so full of sad memories for you; where you meet neither friends nor kindness; where they have bullied and maligned you; where all these—these magpies hate you because you are good looking! You could go abroad this very spring, to Italy, Switzerland, Spain!—to Spain, Zina, where the Alhambra is, and where the Guadalquiver flows—no wretched little stream like this of ours!”"

Edit: Oh, and I should add that the time period I ask about is the second half of the 19th century.

Thank you!

How did Russian nobility get out of Russia and avoid becoming casualties of the Russian Revolution? For example, when did they leave/when were they able to leave, how did they leave, and how did they know to leave?

Hi! I've written this short text about the Russian nobility and their ranks to give some background info. Hope it'll be helpful. Sorry for possible grammar mistakes, English is not my first language.

Title of Prince/Princess does not mean that a person is directly related to the royal family. It was just the highest aristocratic title. (Usually, it meant that one of your ancestors was a medieval feudal lord).

Royal titles were:

• Emperor/Empress (rulers of Russia). The Emperor could also be called "sovereign" or "Tsar". Adressed as "Your Majesty". The widow of the previous Emperor was also called Empress or Empress Dowager.

• Grand Duke/Grand Duchess (other members of the royal family). Adressed as "Your Highness".

The hierarchy of Russian (non-royal) nobility was as follows:

• Prince/Princess
• Count/Countess
• Baron/Baroness (this title was given usually to people of foreign origins)
• nobles without a title.

Note that, unlike in the British system (where only the eldest son inherits the title and the estate), in Russia every son of a prince was a prince, same for counts etc.

This led to the fact that your noble rank didn't always correspond to your wealth or influence. Examples:

• Princess Anna Drubetskaya and Prince Boris Drubetskoy (yes, he's a prince even though he's almost never called that) are poor and have to seek favor with other families that are technically of a lower rank.

• Anna Scherer (the hostess of the soirée in the start of the book) has a lot of influence in society even though she has no title.

Woman's rank is equal to her father's if she's unmarried and to her husband's if she's married or a widow.

I am doing a paper on the Russian Revolution of 1917 and am trying to figure out, how the russian nobility lived up until that point. I managed to find many sources about the peasants and serfdom but very little, almost nothing, about normal nobility (not just the tsar and his family) and how they lived. Does anyone know?

I'm reading war and peace and curious as to how to read some of the subtext. When two characters are presumed to be "romantically" involved are they f******? When someone is an intimate of a certain noblewomen does that mean they are f******?

would other 19th century immigrants to Russia share similar experiences?

How much of the Russian government and military was staffed by nobles? Did it very between the levels of government and the rank and file? Did the nobles do anything besides working for the government? How important were the noble titles, like count or baron? Thanks!

I did some reading and I found out that a lot of Estonian and eastern European nobility were in fact of German descent. Even a few Russian generals during WW1 had German last names. How did this happen?

Hi, I remember reading a story about two high class Russians who find themselves stuck on an island. I think one might have been a general. They are absolutely clueless on how to survive since they have been so coddled for all their lives and all of their skills and instincts are comically worthless. They do however manage to order around a serf. I forget where this is from, and I think it may have been used as a story within a book that I was reading. Any help finding it would be awesome. I think the story is dated to pre-Soviet times.

Like they had a general called Barclay de Tolly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Andreas_Barclay_de_Tolly

Who was a Scottish man raised in Lithuania. What's up with that? And what's with the large amount of German last names one can find for other generals? Like Wittgenstein and von Benningsen?

And why did the Russian court love French so much and when did this die off?

i just finished watching the bbc's War and Peace and was a bit confused by the titles and the number of people that had titles. there seemed to be a lot of prince and princesses but they didn't really interact with, or even seem related to the Tsar. did prince and princess mean something different? i also noticed that the son's of nobility (for example the count) also were addressed as count even though his father was still alive. can someone do a quick rundown on Russian titles and how they may differ from how they are used in England. sorry if i'm totally off base here, am american.

Could be fiction or non-fiction, preferably non-fiction though.

I lived in Kent, Ohio in spring of 70' in a rooming house which was about 2 blocks up from the main campus intersection of the large college campus there.A mannered and gracious and educated, small Russian woman about 55 to 59 years old owned it. I got to know her son fairly well. He told me one night , probably after a few joints, that some members of his extended family had been hunted down and killed ...by the Soviets , I believe. He looked like a Hapsburg prince with fairly bright gold/red hair and a large regal nose. He was a character , exhuberant and lively, an artist, and knew a lot of the musicians in town. Didn't think much about it . 2 hours after the Kent State shootings on 5/4/70 2 men appeared at the side door to the Russians apt. and wanted to be taken to the local ( small planes) airport north of town a few miles. The Russians didn't seem to want to take them. Some friends showed up and offered me a ride to my hometown 3 hours away. We were in shock so all of this was surreal. We really had no room to take these guys to the airport but did anyway after my friends were implored to take take them by my Russian friend. We squeezied them in for a few miles. The police followed us out there to the airport which would be expected as we had a bright psychedelic green Pontiac and longer hair and a packed car. On the way out of town I noticed that they each man had an injunction ...some sort of legal document taped to the side of their briefcases....against the Ohio Nat. Guard , then present on campus in large numbers.This was a standard white typed legal document. These 2 guys were dressed in black suits that an entry level stock broker or junior attorney might wear in NYC in 1968. They had typical but short haircuts and were thin. They seemed intelligent but quiet and focused. They seemed to me that they had east coast speech and mannerisms. What is this injunction all about? Why come to a Russian house where (speculating here in next few lines ) possible Russian nobility lived? Were they using the Russian's background or family to pressure them to get immediate assistance? Were they party members who were expected to help a fellow comrade? ( These people didn't seem to be ideologues in any way.) Why the reticence to help these 2 men? Were these 2 men complicit in any way regarding the burning of the ROTC building on Friday May 1st.(Major speculation...) or some of the other property damaging demonstrations? (This feels feels unlik

I'm writing a story involving 16th century european mercenaries fighting to usurp a russian boyar. but i've reached a snag.

I have no idea how russian nobility lived in the 16th century. like, did they live in castles? if so what did those castles look like, and were they significantly different from european castles insofar as interior decoration and/or outward appearnce? also, what was the general layout of a typical single-occupancy peasant's homestead?

I really don't know anything about it and i'm having trouble finding much on google searches.