Still later, when the courts of the northern grand dukes were established, the boyars appear as the first grade of a fullblown court aristocracy with the exclusive privilege of possessing land and serfs.
His fear of possible pretenders induced him to go so far as to forbid the greatest of the boyars to marry.
Originally the boyars were the intimate friends and confidential advisers of the Russian prince, the superior members of his druzhina or bodyguard, his comrades and champions.
At a later day the boyars were the chief members of the prince's duma, or council, like the senatores of Poland and Lithuania.
The gigantic heroism of the Slavic Woiwodes and Boyars is not the bravery of honour; it is the valour of manly strength, the valour of the heroes of Homer.
Vladimir and his Boyars are to them what Arthur and his Round table, Charlemagne and his twelve peers, are to Britons, Franks, and Germans.
The Boyars might refuse to take part in his military expeditions, and the "free-lances" might leave his service and seek employment elsewhere.
When he attempted to force theBoyars he met with stubborn opposition, and was finally assassinated.
His speech to theboyars had already taken definite shape in his imagination.
The boyars seeing him very much enfeebled, asked him if he would not give the command of the assault to his son.
Instead of calling upon their companion to join them, as Ivan rather expected them to do, theboyars at once dismounted and joined him, leaving their horses on the road in the care of the servants.
After a considerable time had been spent in this manner, the whole party from the post-house came up, boyars and servants, all on horseback.
I am quite twelve years old, and I know very well that the Czar lives in St. Petersburg, and wears a golden crown, and sits upon a throne, and all the boyars stand uncovered around him.
He would like to know what brought him there, he was heard to mutter; adding that the less boyars and mujiks had to say to one another the better for both.
The Moldavian boyars nevertheless considered the promulgation of the constitution as a victory, and thought in their infatuation they might defy all the chances of the future.
Frequent mention has of late been made of the celebrated phrase, The boyars have been of opinion and the tzar has ordained, and it has been made the theme of violent accusations against the usurpation of the Muscovite sovereigns.
Pronkoul, one of the most eminent boyars of the country.
Commissions in the Guards were at this time regarded as gifts from the sovereign to her faithful boyars and claimable by every boyar, if he so desired, for the benefit of his children.
The youth in fetters was brought before an assembly of Kievan boyars (nobles) and citizens, to be sentenced as the enemy of their prince.
His boyars were his subjects, bound to accomplish his will, but never consulted.
To this arrangement theboyars replied with embarrassment: “Prince, thy tranquillity is ours, and it is dear to us.
Yet the Serbs are as much addicted as anyone to the aforementioned delights, and it is probable that the Roumanian boyars do their own people an injustice.
Even in Moscow itself he had little or no authority, and was only not deposed by the dominant boyars because they had none to put in his place.
Boris Godunov, one of the leading boyars of Muscovy.
It was repeated through the army that the Czar had died in foreign lands, and that the boyars wished to put his son Alexis to death.
The boyars of the douma deliberated on this proposal, and the greater number of the boyars were opposed to it.
It is the boyars who do all the mischief; for three years they have kept us from our homes.
Taking the incapacity of Ivan into consideration, the boyars and the Patriarch Joachim proclaimed the young Peter, then nine years old, Czar.
The terrible carpenter of Saardam worked and obliged his boyarsto work at this horrible employment.
The nation altered its religion in obedience to its sovereign, and some of the boyars who resisted the change paid with their lives for their fidelity to the ancient belief.
Yaroslav went to seek his father and mother, and they came to meet him, and the princes and boyars threw themselves with their faces to the ground before him.
Litcharda and Simbalda (so the boys were named) stationed themselves in the passage through which Bova had to pass with his princes and boyarson his way to dinner.
Immediately all the princes, boyars and others swore fidelity to Bova, and wished him a happy accession to the throne; after which the King ordered feasts and rejoicings to be made for a whole month.
Then Yaroslav and the Princess Anastasia, with all the princes and boyars fell to eating and drinking and making merry.
Then the boyars replied: "Your Majesty, seeing that they are old enough to have understanding, it would be well to ask each brother separately what craft he wishes to learn.
Then he called together the princes and boyars and announced to them that he was Bova Korolevich, the rightful heir to the throne of his father Guidon, returned from foreign lands, and required of them the oath of allegiance.
Then all the princes and boyars cried aloud: "Yaroslav Lasarevich, strike him a second blow!
Then Litcharda told him where they had left Drushnevna; and Bova instantly sent some of his boyars to conduct her to the castle.
The Tsar in his rapture gave a great feast, and invited all his princes and boyars and people of different ranks, with their wives and children.
One day the Tsar rode out to the chase, and took with him the boyars and knights, and Yaroslav was among them.
Health to thee and thy lady wife, Anastasia Vorcholomeievna, and to thy son, Yaroslav Yaroslavovich, and to thy princes and boyars and all thy subjects!
And when the day for the marriage came, the King commanded all his princes and boyars to assemble in the palace; and they all went in procession to the church, and Sila Tsarevich was married to the fair Queen Truda.
Then all the princes and boyars cried aloud with one voice: "Hail, Sir Yaroslav Lasarevich, with thy young bride the fair Princess!
The letters read and delivered, the Tsar and his Boyars rose in their places simultaneously, and their tissue vests made so strange, loud, and unexpected a noise as to provoke the ever too easily moved risibility of the Englishmen.
The boyars commenced the building of their houses, and the Czar himself laid the foundation of an imperial palace.
Le Fort always acted as intercessor in cases of difficulty of this sort; so that the Russian noblemen, or boyars as they were called, in the end looked upon him as their father.
The boyarswere not at all pleased with this summons.
The land was surveyed, streets laid out, building lots assigned to merchants for warehouses and shops, and to the boyars for palaces and gardens.
The Czar also sent orders to a great many leadingboyars or nobles, requiring them to come and build houses for themselves in the new town.
His dukes and boyars followed him, until every house had a harem, and the seclusion of females was as strict in Moscow as in Bokhara and Bagdad.
If he destroyed the princes and boyars as a ruling caste, he put into their places the official chins.
The story of these boyars stirred up Savatie to follow in their wake, and labor in the desolate land which they were opening up.
So much insolence was used, that he was told by one of theboyars if he were not quick in going they would pitch his baggage out-of-doors.
Boyars from his country-side were then going up into the north; and why should holy men not bear as much for Christ as boyars and traders bore for pelf?
The land was governed by provincial begs, called boyars and voyevods; the army was drilled and dressed like Turkish troops; and the women were kept in harems like the Sultan's odalisques.
That eagle was introduced by Ivan the Third; a prince who began the work (completed by his grandson, Ivan the Fourth) of crushing the great boyarsand destroying the free cities.
This fawning of dukes and boyars on the Great Cham brought no good to the rustic; who might see his patch of rye trodden down, his homestead fired, and his village cross profaned by gangs of marauding horse.
As every man in trouble went to his Metropolite for counsel, the boyars accused him of inciting the people against their prince.
The boyars have grown too rich for freedom, and the ancients of the city sell their consciences for gold and state.
I see," said the monk, "six boyars at a feast, all seated at a table without their heads!
The boyars of Kem had friends in the city; and the Marfa's ear had been filled with tales against his monkish guile and monkish greed.
The native dukes and boyars of these provinces held from the Crim Tartar, known to our poets as the Great Cham.
They will come to us, make our realm the spoil of war, put to death our boyarsand voevods, and lead captive me and my Tsaritsa, for thou canst not defend us.
The Princes and the Boyars stood there with gaping mouths.
Then the other voevods and Boyars came to him and said: "'Tis not such a very great service, O Tsar!
Fenist fell in love with her more than ever, kissed her on her sugary mouth, and bade them set the bells a-ringing without delay, and assemble the Boyars and the Princes and the men of every degree in the market-place.
So theBoyars came to Tsar Gorokh and said: "Sovereign Tsar!
Then the other voevods and Boyars said to him: "It is not a very great service to bring the apple tree with silver leaves and golden apples.
The Tsarevich washed and dressed himself, hastened to his lady, and found her apartments full of Boyars and Grandees, and her Councillors were all assembled there down to the very last one.
The duma, or council, still attended to all the details of the administration; the old boyars still retained their ancient offices and dignities.
The sovereign became sacrosanct, while the boyarswere reduced to the level of slaves absolutely dependent on the will of the sovereign.
The boyars were no longer consulted on affairs of state.
The boyars naturally resented so insulting a revolution, and struggled against it, at first with some success.
The merchants and boyarsmet the Tsar with bread and salt, and congratulated him on his marriage.
Then the counselling princes andboyars decided that the princess must marry Ivan Tsarevich.
That was all the boyars and generals were waiting for.
The Tsar became greatly enraged, hearing of such an evil art, and said to his boyars and men of counsel: "Gentlemen, how do ye advise me to punish this thief Simeon?
The generals and counselling boyars arranged a trip on the sea, prepared the ship, invited Ivan the colonel to go with them.
The boyars on the Volga and some of the Pechenegian princes embraced the gospel of salvation together with his subjects, and rejoiced to be admitted to holy baptism.
The other boyars and different court people said to the Tsar: "There is nothing wonderful in such a pig.
The humble ones did not dare look toward their homes, and even theboyars had to take off their fur caps on their porches.
He gave a feast great among feasts, rewarded the brothers of Ivanoushka the Simpleton, created them bigboyars and praised them.
The Tsar jumped to his feet, the Tsaritza screamed, the princes and boyars opened their mouths.
It would not do for us to become boyars or governors.
And the soldier after that set up as a wise man and put all the doctors out of business, curing the boyars and generals.
Tzar, "you cure my boyars and generals and you will not cure me who am Tzar, and have treated you as my own born brother.
And suddenly the fisherman saw his old woman in the gold and silver dress of a Tzaritza come stalking out on the balcony with her generals and boyars to hold a review of her troops.
Then the King called a grand council of his wise boyars and men of state.
For they were boyars and wise men of state, and not one of them would undertake to follow the whirlwind and rescue the three princesses.
My soldiers cannot, my servants cannot, and my boyars and wise men will not, bring back my three sweet maids, whom I love better than my kingdom.
But the boyarsand the wise men of state sat round in silence.
So he made a law for all the great boyars of his kingdom, that every one of them must build or buy him a ship.
The boyars did not like it very well to be obliged to build these ships," continued Rollo.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "boyars" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
