A posadnik (Russian: посадник, pl. посадники, posadniki) was a representative of the prince in some towns during the times of Kievan Rus', and later the...

elect and dismiss princes at its own will. The veche also elected the posadnik, who was the chief executive of the city, and from 1156, the archbishop...

located between Kyushu and Korea. On 13 March 1861, the Russian corvette Posadnik (Посадник, 1856), captained by Nicolai Birilev, arrived in Tsushima island...

but it continued to enjoy self-government under the supervision of a posadnik, or chief executive, that was appointed by Novgorod. Pskov had the status...

Ostromir (Russian: Остромир; Christian name: Joseph; died c. 1057) was the posadnik of Novgorod from 1054 to 1057. Ostromir is known from the first Russian...

in the 13th century in the Novgorod Republic for the office of posadnik. The posadnik shared executive power with the duke, and competition over who should...

vows). Vasilii's parish church in Kholop Street was rebuilt in 1350 by the Posadnik (mayor) Iurii Ivanovich That church apparently burned in 1352, the year...

Drevlians (990–1015) Anna Porphyrogenita Theophana, a wife of Novgorod posadnik Ostromir, a grandson of semi-legendary Dobrynya (highly doubtful is the...

"stadtholder" is posadnik; the term sometimes occurs as "stadtholder" in English-language literature. Although there were such legendary posadniks as Gostomysl...

Klas Horn was originally the Kazarski-class torpedo gunboat Posadnik of the Imperial Russian Navy. One of three built for the Russian Baltic Fleet, Posednik...

local elites, the boyars, took control of the city and the offices of posadnik and tysyatsky became elective. The veche (public assembly) played a not...

captured the fortress at Orekhov. Negotiations with the Novgorodian mayor (posadnik) Fedor were inconclusive and the Swedes attacked Karelians around Lake...

to elect borough officials. The veche for the city selected the prince, posadnik and archbishop. Historians debate whether the Novgorod veche consisted...

the first hegumen of the monastery. After Marfa Boretskaya, wife of the posadnik of Novgorod, donated her lands at Kem and Summa to the monastery in 1450...

location in about 500 AD. As per Nestor the Chronicler, Uleb Ragnvaldsson, posadnik of Novgorod, led a war party to conquer Yugra, to conquer the historical...

returned to Poland, seizing some Cherven towns on the way. Meanwhile, the posadnik Konstantin Dobrynich and other citizens of Novgorod persuaded Yaroslav...

son Vasily was expelled; Alexander returned to the city to dismiss the posadnik and by the next year, Vasily was sent back to reign. In 1258, he visited...

Vsevolod Yaroslavich. In 1079, Svyatoslav Yaroslavich appointed a governor (posadnik), but he was captured two years later by David Igorevich and Volodar Rostislavich...

Russian pronunciation: [ɡəstɐˈmɨsl]) was a legendary 9th-century prince or posadnik of Novgorod, who was introduced into Imperial Russian historiography by...

Nauru) Russian: Boyarin Dyak Knyaz (and Veliky Knyaz) Namestnik Okolnichy Posadnik Voyevoda German: Burggraf Graf Freigraf Landgraf Markgraf Pfalzgraf Reichsgraf...

Vladimir I of Rus'; they were the parents of: Feofana; she married Ostromir, posadnik of Novgorod, died c. 1057; left issue Zoe, nun since 959 Theodora, nun...

the powers of the veche the election of the town officials such as the posadnik, tysyatsky, and even the archbishop (he was then sent to the metropolitan...

died 1367) was a posadnik of Novgorod the Great in 1350–1354. He came from a Novgorodian boyar family that gave a number of posadniks to the city. He is...

Shervashidze, Georgian nobleman August 16 – Stepan Tverdislavich, Russian posadnik October 15 – Hedwig of Silesia, Polish duchess (b. 1174) October 26 – Bernat...

minor. When the ruling monarch had no such son, Novgorod was governed by posadniks, such as the legendary Gostomysl, Dobrynya, Konstantin, and Ostromir.[citation...

Uleb (Ulf) Ragnvaldsson (Russian: Улеб (Ульф) Рагнвальдсон) was a posadnik and military leader of Novgorod. He led the Novgorodians in the conquest of...

Hope arrived with two British warships and forced the Russian corvette Posadnik to withdraw. The following year he provided assistance to the Imperial...

Slavic name but at least two high rank Novgorod officials had the name: the posadnik Yakun Andreevich (Cyrillic: Якун Андреевич) (mentioned 1167) and the tysyatsky...

its production. In 1871 Tolstoy started his fifth and final play called Posadnik (set in the times when the Novgorod Republic prospered), which remained...

needed] In 1136 Svyatoslav married a second time, to the daughter of the posadnik of Novgorod, probably named Ekaterina or Catherine, who bore their son...