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boyars , upper nobility in Russia from the 10th through the 17th cent. The boyars originally obtained influence and government posts through their military support of the Kievan princes. Their power and prestige, however, soon came to depend almost completely on landownership. The boyars occupied... Read more
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KHOVANSHCHINA The Khovanshchina originated in the struggle over the succession following the death of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich in 1682. Strictly speaking, the term refers to the period following the musketeer revolt of May 1682, when many leading boyars and officials in the Kremlin were massacred, and... Read more
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Boris Godunov , c.1551-1605, czar of Russia (1598-1605). A favorite of Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible), he helped organize Ivan's social and administrative system. After Ivan's death (1584), Boris became virtual ruler of Russia, ostensibly as regent for Ivan's young son Feodor I, who was married to... Read more
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Romanov Romanov
Romanov , ruling dynasty of Russia from 1613 to 1917. The name Romanov was adopted in the 16th cent. by a family of boyars (great nobles) that traced its beginnings to the 14th cent. Czar Ivan IV took as his first wife Anastasia Romanov. Anastasia's brother, Nikita, was a regent for her son, Czar ... Read more

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RICHARD BOYAR, AT 52; MUSICIAN, CANTOR
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Richard Boyar, a musician, former...psychologist, and a cantor at Temple Sinai in...Sharon in 1999. Mr. Boyar also had a sense of...there was another cantor there one night and...many years, Mr. Boyar and Cohen- Boyar...
He did it his way
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post ...Kennedy in 1960, and eight years later for Richard Nixon. His sycophancy was brutally lampooned...his neck, a gift from comedian Eddie Cantor. Others ascribed his decision to a lifelong...His longtime writing collaborator, Burt Boyar, observed of his friend: "He so loved...

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