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pomeshchiks (Russian: помещик) were the
class of
Russian nobility who
owned a
pomestye (Russian: поместье), i.e., an estate. The term
pomeshchik is
commonly translated...
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military service.
Until the mid-17th century, a
pomestye could only be
exchanged for
another pomestye, but the
Sobornoye Ulozheniye of 1649
allowed for...
- non-possessors, led by Nil Sorsky,
opposed monastic landholding. Ivan
viewed the
pomestye system as an
ideal way to
provide for the
noble cavalrymen who
served in...
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state servants, who
received estates for
service in
conditional holding ("
pomestye" –
military fief). In 1482, the
landed army (Russian: Поместное войско)...
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Putilo Mikhailov. In 1621, Tsar
Mikhail Fyodorovich granted Kopytovka as a
pomestye (estate) to
Prince D.T. Trubetskoy. The prince's widow, Anna Vasilyevna...
