Meaning of knyaginya | Babel Free

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A Slavic princess consort.

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“Although the above documents show⟳ the knyaginya’s activity, preserved and documented only under her name⟳ from the second marriage, with the exception of the will of Fedor Sanguszko, they do simultaneously present⟳ her character.”

“She said that it was certainly a kingly feat to dispatch one’s own⟳ brothers from the world, as her husband Yaroslav the Wise had done, but as knyaginya, she found it far less honorable for Yaroslav to have⟳ four wives in addition to herself, as well as seven concubines.”

“As the remembrance formula is more developed in the second edition, we present⟳ it here: […] for the right-believing Ladies and Great Knyaginyas Maria Nikolaevna, Olga Nikolaevna, and for her husband: […]”

“It should be noted that we believe⟳ it is absolutely certain that all these miliarensia, handed out so generously by the Byzantine emperor to the Russian knyaginya and different members of her entourage on this visit⟳, which took place⟳ in 946, were of the type⟳ “Constantine VII with Romanos II”, whose production had begun only about a year and a half earlier.”

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