Great Muscovite Law Code

Glossary

• manumission documents official papers stating that the bearer, a former slave, has been freed
• Mikhail Fedorovich Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov (1596–1645)
• service landholding rented land whose tenant was required to serve the state lifelong or until too infirm to continue his duties (that is, until superannuated)
• spiritual fathers Orthodox clergy and other personnel
• stol'niki, …, striapchie, …, dvoriane, &hellip , zhil'tsy specific ranks or titles within the service gentry, with dvoriane referring to nobles and gentry in state service