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Dukes and boyards thus became semi-Asiatic, and drifted away from the people among whom the national principle was kept alive.
From The Story of Russia by Bergen, R. Van
The assembly was composed of boyards or nobles, and sometimes disputes occurred between them and the duke, which ended in more or less serious disorders.
From The Story of Russia by Bergen, R. Van
We can take no interest in the boyards of Russia or the boors of Poland; but little in the agas and kuzilbashes of Eastern story.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
Many dukes and boyards, moved by loyalty for the church, and perhaps scenting spoils, flocked to his camp.
From The Story of Russia by Bergen, R. Van
He ordered the arrest of his son, and had the boyards punished; but it was not before the people heard of the approach of a Tartar army, that they submitted.
From The Story of Russia by Bergen, R. Van
