Categories of Russian nobility and Russian royalty

  • Knyaz (as ancient ruler), knyaginya, knyazhna (daughter)
  • Velikiy Knyaz (Grand Duke, Grand Prince, as a ruler)
  • Boyar
  • Tsar (Emperor), Tsaritsa (Tsarina) (Empress, Empress consort)
  • Tsar family
  • Tsesarevich
  • Tsarevich, Tsarevna
  • Velikiy Knyaz (Grand Prince, Grand Duke) (as an aristocratic title), Velikaya Knyaginya (Grand Princess), Velikaya Knyazhna (Grand Princess)
  • Dvoryanstvo
  • Titled Dvoryanstvo (titulovannoye dvoryanstvo)
  • Count
  • Baron
  • Knyaz (as title)

Hierarchy before Peter the Great

thumb|150px|Tsar's stolnik

According to Gerhard Friedrich Müller's ':

  1. :ru:Бояре
  2. :ru:Окольничие
  3. :ru:Думные дворяне
  4. :ru:Стольники
  5. :ru:Стряпчие
  6. :ru:Дворяне
  7. Жильцы
  8. :ru:Дети боярские

See also

  • Table of Ranks

References