Russian rank titles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries determined the place of an official in the court and service hierarchy, and depended on birth and position. The system was divided into Duma ranks: boyars, okolnichys, duma nobility and duma clerks; Moscow ranks: stolniks, stryapchiys, Moscow nobility, diaks and zhilts; as well as the city nobility and the boyar scions.
Russian rank titles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries determined the place of an official in the court and service hierarchy, and depended on birth and position. The system was divided into Duma ranks: boyars, okolnichys, duma nobility and duma clerks; Moscow ranks: stolniks, stryapchiys, Moscow nobility, diaks and zhilts; as well as the city nobility and the boyar scions.
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