Kropotkin family, the Glossary

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1. 91 relations: Active State Councillor, Alexandra Kropotkin, Anarchism, Archaeology, Bezhetsk, Boyar, Boyar scions, Cesvaine, Chamberlain (office), Chaplyginsky District, Courland, Crimean War, Dragoon, False Dmitry II, Gaujiena, Gdov, Germany, Governing Senate, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Grigory Goldenberg, Grodno Governorate, His Imperial Majesty's Retinue, Ivan Bolotnikov, Ivan the Terrible, Ivan V of Russia, Ivangorod, January Uprising, Jēkabpils, Jełowicki family, John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, Kaluga, Kaluga Governorate, Kazan Governorate, Kharkov Governorate, Krapivna, Tula Oblast, Latvia, Lieutenant general, Lipetsk Oblast, Livonia, Livonian War, Lutsk, Major general, Mogilev Governorate, Moscow Governorate, Narodnaya Volya, Nizhny Novgorod, Odnodvortsy, Odoyev, Peter Kropotkin, Polotsk, ... Expand index (41 more) »

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Active State Councillor

Active State Councillor (действительный статский советник, deystvitelnyi statskiy sovetnik) was a civil position (class) in the Russian Empire, according to the Table of Ranks introduced by Peter the Great in 1722.

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Alexandra Kropotkin

Alexandra "Sasha" Kropotkin (1887–1966) was a New York-based writer and Russian language translator.

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Anarchism

Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Bezhetsk

Bezhetsk (Бе́жецк) is a town and the administrative center of Bezhetsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia, located on the Mologa River at its confluence with the Ostrechina.

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Boyar

A boyar or bolyar was a member of the highest rank of the feudal nobility in many Eastern European states, including Bulgaria, Kievan Rus' (and later Russia), Moldavia and Wallachia (and later Romania), Lithuania and among Baltic Germans.

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Boyar scions

Boyar scions (Russian: дети боярские, сыны боярские; transliteration: deti/syny boyarskie) were a rank of Russian gentry that existed from the late 1300s through the 1600s.

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Cesvaine

Cesvaine (Seßwegen) is a town in Madona Municipality, Vidzeme Region, Latvia.

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Chamberlain (office)

A chamberlain (Medieval Latin: cambellanus or cambrerius, with charge of treasury camerarius) is a senior royal official in charge of managing a royal household.

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Chaplyginsky District

Chaplyginsky District (Чаплы́гинский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #382-OZ and municipalLaw #114-OZ district (raion), one of the eighteen in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia.

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Courland

Courland is one of the Historical Latvian Lands in western Latvia.

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Crimean War

The Crimean War was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between the Russian Empire and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom, and Sardinia-Piedmont.

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Dragoon

Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot.

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False Dmitry II

False Dmitry II (Lzhedmitrii II; died), historically known as Pseudo-Demetrius II and also called ("the thief of Tushino"), was the second of three pretenders to the Russian throne who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible, during the Time of Troubles.

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Gaujiena

Gaujiena (Adsel) is a village along the Gauja River in Gaujiena Parish, Smiltene Municipality, Latvia.

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Gdov

Gdov (Гдов) is a town and the administrative center of Gdovsky District in Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the river Gdovka, just from its outflow into Lake Peipus.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Governing Senate

From 1711 to 1917, the Governing Senate was the highest legislative, judicial, and executive body subordinate to the Russian emperors.

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Grand Duchy of Lithuania

The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a sovereign state in northeastern Europe that existed from the 13th century, succeeding the Kingdom of Lithuania, to the late 18th century, when the territory was suppressed during the 1795 partitions of Poland–Lithuania.

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Grigory Goldenberg

Grigory Goldenberg (also referred to as Gregory Goldenberg or "Grigorii Goldenberg"; 1855–1880) was a Russian revolutionary and member of Narodnaya Volya ("People's Will").

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Grodno Governorate

Grodno Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Grodno.

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His Imperial Majesty's Retinue

His Imperial Majesty's Retinue, His Imperial Majesty's Suite (abbr. H. I. M. Retinue, H. I. M. Suite;, e.g. Свита Его Императорского Величества, Е.) was a retinue unit of personal aides to the Russian Emperor, who usually were officers of the Army or the Guards units.

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Ivan Bolotnikov

Ivan Isayevich Bolotnikov (Ива́н Иса́евич Боло́тников; 1565–1608) headed a popular uprising in Russia in 1606–1607 known as the Bolotnikov Rebellion (Восстание Ивана Болотникова).

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Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich (Иван IV Васильевич; 25 August 1530 –), commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.

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Ivan V of Russia

Ivan V Alekseyevich (Иван V Алексеевич; &ndash) was Tsar of all Russia between 1682 and 1696, jointly ruling with his younger half-brother Peter I. Ivan was the youngest son of Alexis I of Russia by his first wife, Maria Miloslavskaya, while Peter was the only son of Alexis by his second wife, Natalya Naryshkina.

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Ivangorod

Ivangorod (p; Jaanilinn; Jaanilidna) is a town in Kingiseppsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the east bank of the Narva river which flows along the Estonia–Russia international border, west of Saint Petersburg, east of Tallinn, Estonia.

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January Uprising

The January Uprising was an insurrection principally in Russia's Kingdom of Poland that was aimed at putting an end to Russian occupation of part of Poland and regaining independence.

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Jēkabpils

Jēkabpils is a state city in Jēkabpils Municipality in southeastern Latvia, located roughly halfway between the capital Riga and Daugavpils, and spanning the Daugava River.

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Jełowicki family

The Jełowicki family, sometimes called Jałowiecki, (feminine form: Jełowicka, plural: Jełowiccy) is a Polish princely family of Ruthenian-Lithuanian origin, bearing the Jełowicki arms.

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John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein

Johan of Schleswig-Holstein (9 July 1583 – 28 October 1602) was the youngest son of Frederick II of Denmark and Norway and Sophia of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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Kaluga

Kaluga (Калу́га) is a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast, Russia.

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Kaluga Governorate

Kaluga Governorate (Kaluzhskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed in 1796–1929.

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Kazan Governorate

Kazan Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR from 1708 to 1920, with its capital in Kazan.

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Kharkov Governorate

Kharkov Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire founded in 1835.

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Krapivna, Tula Oblast

Krapivna (Крапивна) is a rural locality (a selo) in Shchyokinsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Plava River near its confluence with the Upa River.

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Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

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Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Lipetsk Oblast

Lipetsk Oblast (Lipetskaya oblastʹ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

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Livonia

Livonia or in earlier records Livland, is a historical region on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.

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Livonian War

The Livonian War (1558–1583) was fought for control of Old Livonia (in the territory of present-day Estonia and Latvia).

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Lutsk

Lutsk (Луцьк,; see below for other names) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine.

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Major general

Major general is a military rank used in many countries.

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Mogilev Governorate

Mogilev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire.

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Moscow Governorate

The Moscow Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, and the Russian Empire.

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Narodnaya Volya

Narodnaya Volya (t) was a late 19th-century revolutionary socialist political organization operating in the Russian Empire, which conducted assassinations of government officials in an attempt to overthrow the autocratic Tsarist system.

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Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia.

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Odnodvortsy

Odnodvortsy (Russian: однодворцы) was a social group of the Russian gentry in the late 17th — mid-19th centuries.

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Odoyev

Odoyev (Одо́ев) is an urban-type settlement in the west of Tula Oblast, Russia.

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Peter Kropotkin

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.

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Polotsk

Polotsk (Полоцк) or Polatsk (Polack) is a town in Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

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Principality of Moscow

The Principality of Moscow or Grand Duchy of Moscow (Velikoye knyazhestvo Moskovskoye), also known simply as Muscovy (from the Latin Moscovia), was a principality of the Late Middle Ages centered on Moscow.

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Principality of Smolensk

The Principality of Smolensk (eventually Grand Principality of Smolensk) was a Kievan Rus' lordship from the 11th to the 16th century.

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Riga

Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.

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Rurikids

The Rurik dynasty, also known as the Rurikid or Riurikid dynasty, as well as simply Rurikids or Riurikids, was a noble lineage allegedly founded by the Varangian prince Rurik, who, according to tradition, established himself at Novgorod in the year 862. The Rurikids were the ruling dynasty of Kievan Rus' and its principalities following its disintegration. Kropotkin family and Rurikids are Russian noble families.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk) consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such as libraries, publishing units, and hospitals.

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Russian nobility

The Russian nobility or dvoryanstvo (дворянство) arose in the Middle Ages.

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Russo-Kazan Wars

The Russo-Kazan Wars was a series of wars fought between the Grand Principality of Moscow and the Khanate of Kazan from 1437, until Kazan was finally conquered by the Tsardom of Russia under Ivan the Terrible in 1552.

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Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)

The Russo-Polish War of 1654–1667, also called the Thirteen Years' War, Muscovite War of 1654–1667 and the First Northern War, was a major conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Russo-Swedish War (1590–1595)

The Russo-Swedish War of 1590–1595 was instigated by Boris Godunov in the hope of gaining the territory of the Duchy of Estonia along the Gulf of Finland belonging to Sweden since the previous Livonian War.

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Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658)

The Russo-Swedish War of 1656-1658, known as the War of Rupture, was fought by Russia and Sweden as a theater of the Second Northern War.

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Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)

The Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829 resulted from the Greek War of Independence of 1821–1829; war broke out after the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II closed the Dardanelles to Russian ships and in November 1827 revoked the 1826 Akkerman Convention in retaliation for the participation of the Imperial Russian Navy in the Battle of Navarino of October 1827.

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Ryazan

Ryazan (Рязань,; also Riazan) is the largest city and administrative center of Ryazan Oblast, Russia.

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Ryazan Governorate

Ryazan Governorate (Ryazanskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1796 to 1929.

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Saint Petersburg Governorate

The Saint Petersburg Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Russian Empire, with its capital in Saint Petersburg.

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Sarmatians

The Sarmatians (Sarmatai; Latin: Sarmatae) were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD.

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Scythians

The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.

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Shlisselburg

Shlisselburg (Шлиссельбу́рг,; Schlüsselburg; Pähkinälinna; Nöteborg), formerly Oreshek (Орешек) (1323–1611) and Petrokrepost (Петрокрепость) (1944–1992), is a town in Kirovsky District, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located at the head of the Neva River on Lake Ladoga, east of St.

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Sigulda

Sigulda (Segewold) is a town in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, from the capital city Riga.

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Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia

Sophia Alekseyevna (p) was a Russian princess who ruled as regent of Russia from 1682 to 1689.

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Stan (administrative unit)

Stan (Russian: стан; plural: станы) was a historical administrative unit in Russia, except for Veliky Novgorod.

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Staraya Ladoga

Staraya Ladoga (t), known as Ladoga until 1704, is a rural locality (a selo) in Volkhovsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the Volkhov River near Lake Ladoga, north of the town of Volkhov, the administrative center of the district.

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Stenka Razin

Stepan Timofeyevich Razin (Степа́н Тимофе́евич Ра́зин,; c. 1630 –), known as Stenka Razin (Сте́нька), was a Don Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and tsarist bureaucracy in southern Russia in 1670–1671.

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Stolnik

Stolnik (сто́льник) was a court office in Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, responsible for serving the royal table, then an honorary court title and a district office.

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Surgut

Surgut (p; Khanty: Сәрханӆ, Sərhanł, Сө̆ркут, sörkut) is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River near its junction with the Irtysh River.

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Time of Troubles

The Time of Troubles (Smutnoye vremya), also known as Smuta (troubles), was a period of political crisis in Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Feodor I, the last of the House of Rurik, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov.

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Toropets

Toropets (Торо́пец) is a town and the administrative center of Toropetsky District in Tver Oblast, Russia, located where the Toropa River enters Lake Solomennoye.

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Tula Governorate

Tula Governorate (Tul'skaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, with its capital in Tula.

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Uglich

Uglich (p) is a historic town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located on the Volga River.

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Vasknarva

Vasknarva (Сыренец, Syrenets; Neuschloss) is a village in Alutaguse Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia.

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Veliky Novgorod

Veliky Novgorod (lit), also known simply as Novgorod (Новгород), is the largest city and administrative centre of Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

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Velvet Book

The Velvet Book (Barkhatnaya kniga) was an official register of genealogies of Russia's most noble families (Russian nobility).

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Viljandi

Viljandi (Fellin, Vīlande, Felin, Fellin) is a town and municipality in southern Estonia with a population of 17,407 in 2019.

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Vitebsk

Vitebsk or Vitsyebsk (Viciebsk,; Витебск) is a city in northern Belarus.

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Voivode

Voivode, also spelled voivod, voievod or voevod and also known as vaivode, voivoda, vojvoda or wojewoda, is a title denoting a military leader or warlord in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe in use since the Early Middle Ages.

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Voronezh

Voronezh (Воро́неж) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River.

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Voronezh Governorate

Voronezh Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR, which existed from 1708 (as Azov Governorate) to 1779 and again from 1796 to 1928.

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War commissary

A war commissary or armed forces commissary (German: Kriegskommissar, French:commissaire des armées) is a military official responsible for supplying military arms and provisions, and sometimes in charge of the military budget and conscription.

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Yelets

Yelets or Elets (Елец) is a city in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Bystraya Sosna River, which is a tributary of the Don.

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Yury of Smolensk

Yury Svyatoslavich or Georgy Svyatoslavovich (Юрий Святославович or Георгий Святославович) was the last sovereign ruler of the Principality of Smolensk and Bryansk (1386–95, 1401–04) whose life was spent in vain attempts to fend off aggression by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Kropotkin family and Yury of Smolensk are Rostislavichi family (Smolensk).

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Zaraysky District

Zaraysky District (Зара́йский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #63/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia.

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See also

Rostislavichi family (Smolensk)

• Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov
• Davyd Rostislavich
• Ilya Leonidovich Tatischev
• Iraklii Danylovich
• Ivan Vsevolozhsky
• Jacques Tati
• Kropotkin family
• Leo I of Galicia
• Lvov family
• Modest Mussorgsky
• Mstislav III of Kiev
• Mstislav Mstislavich
• Mstislav Rostislavich
• Mussorgsky family
• Predslava Rurikovna
• Prozorovsky
• Roman Danylovich
• Roman I of Kiev
• Rostislav I of Kiev
• Rostislav II of Kiev
• Rurik Rostislavich
• Rzhevsky family
• Shvarn
• Tatishchev family
• Theodore the Black
• Vasili, Prince of Yaroslavl
• Verchoslava Vsevolodovna
• Vladimir IV of Kiev
• Vsevolozhsky family
• Yury of Smolensk

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kropotkin_family

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