The end of Richelieu by Gregory, C, Dr Charles T. Gregory

“…Modern historians have recast Richelieu as a nobleman of his time, who advanced himself within the social and political hierarchies through marriage alliances and patronage. …”

LANDVOGTS IN THE VOLHYNIAN TOWNS OF THE 16TH AND THE FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURIES: COMPOSITION, PERSONALITIES, FUNCTIONS by Andriy Zayats

“…Among the twelve landvogts of Milianovich, only one was a nobleman and a Pole, and the rest were local townspeople. …”
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Kalmyk Nobility in the Early Twentieth Century: Noyon Tseren-David Ts. Tundutov by Alexandr N. Komandzhaev, Baatr V. Ochirov, Nikolay B. Bovaev

“…The article focuses on the figure of Noyon (Prince) Tseren-David Tundutov, a most renowned Kalmyk nobleman whose multifaceted efforts were derived from the dramatic social upheavals and disturbances of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. …”
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In het land der Boeren: De receptie van de Anglo-Boerenoorlog in de Poolse jeugdliteratuur by Pawel Zajas

“…In this area, the Polish nobleman was viewed as an agent of acculturation, supposed to live in harmony with his neighbours and fight the barbarian Tatar hordes. …”
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PORTRAIT GRAFFITI IN MARGINS OF ANTIQUE LITHUANIAN BOOKS by Burba, Domininkas, Pacevicius, Arvydas

“…Paleographical, structural and content analysis of the document showed that the author of the “bearded nobleman” portrait (no. 2) could have been the elder of Merkine Antanas Kazimieras Sapiega. …”
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PAUL BARRAS: THE ORIGINS OF A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY by Samsarov A.I.

“…Already under the Old Order, this nobleman and naval officer was inclined towards change. …”
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«The battle of Shulgin» on the maps by S.U. Remezov and its source: historical and natural-geographical plots by Tikhonov S.S.

“…The author pays great attention to one of the events at the end of the XVI century, the battle of Tobolsk nobleman Vasily Shulgin with the nomads. The author considers the place of the battle, the reasons for its sad outcome, and its importance for the subsequent development of the Tobol region.…”
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SECULAR GREEK MIGRATION TO RUSSIA of the END OF XVI – FIRST HALF XVII CENTURIES by T. A. Oparina

“…This document was created by the possibility to obtain the rank of Moscow nobleman. In the period under review, more than two dozen immigrants entered the Czar’s court; seven of them have confirmed the title of Prince. …”
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«Lithuania with the Crown has a common cause…» by Taras Kovalets

“… The article has archeographic nature and contains the text of two documents in Polish found in the Manuscripts Department of Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library, the report of a certain apprentice of the nobleman Krzysztof Fasz about the siege of Gomel and the report prepared for the command of the crown army about Cossack diplomatic mission to the field hetman of Lithuania Janusz Radziwiłł in June 1651. …”
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Munimenta in a turtoise chest. Archival materials in the world of things of Krzysztof Grzymułtowski by Marcin Hlebionek, Jagoda Jankowska

“…The image of Krzysztof Grzymułtowski that emerges from the documents listed in the inventory is literal; thanks to that it shows us what nobleman one should be more vividly than the chattel inventory</p>…”
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The Mayor’s career in “The Government Inspector”. On Nikolai Gogol’s political views by Igor Vinogradov

“…In Gogol’s opinion, Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, who started his career from the lowest position and acquired his rank and title of nobility with “hard service”, nevertheless hasn’t become a true nobleman because of his bribery and corruption. From this perspective, the character of the Mayor helps to better understand the purpose of Gogol’s satire. …”
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Jongka, the traditional Korean family: Exploring jongka food in the context of Korean food categories by Chang Hyeon Lee, Young Kim

“…Background: Jongka food is the implementation of banka food in jongka, where in banka food stems from royal cuisine that has been passed on to yangban (nobleman) family. Jongka food is historically passed down, and connects different time periods between generations in the same spatial context of jongka, is a traditional Korean family system, where the eldest sons have kept their family lineage alive through generations dating over 400 years since the mid-Chosun era. …”
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The discoverer of the Donetsk coal by Gennadiy Gayko, Volodymyr Biletsky

“…In 1721, Nikita Vepreyskyy - Managing Bahmutskiy salt mines, landrat, nobleman and Simon Chirkov - Bahmutskiy fortress commandant took samples of coal in two places - in the tract Skelevate and on the White river. …”
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Latająca Europa — balony w XVIII w. by Paweł T. Dobrowolski

“…While the Warsaw flights of Blanchard — a man who made a living out of flying — with Jan Potocki, a nobleman ready to experience new challenges were supported by the king and gained aristocratic support, relevant to the “English” model which placed emphasis on commercial and public show dimensions, the Kraków academics who were in the forefront of scientific debate on the merits and potential of flying along the French lines of “serious” research failed to generate wider interest and financial support for their (unmanned) experiments.…”
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Allestimenti di dimore romane tra Seicento e Settecento: un itinerario nella tradizione classicista dell’Urbe / The interior decoration of Roman houses between the seventeenth and... by Valter Curzi

“…With the exception of the significant cultural differences that exist between an english protestant lord and a nobleman of a province of the Papal States, it will be attempted to highlight the kind and the diffusion of the Roman cultural and artistic model of the early eighteenth century, as it emerges from a well known and widespread guide of Rome, from the experience in the Urbe of a traveler at the beginning of the Grand Tour experience and, finally, from the fitting out of an fashionable apartment on the borders of the Papal State.…”
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Cossacks in the Movement of Zemstvo Militias in Russia (1611–1612) by Igor O. Tyumentsev

“…Trubetskoy, boyar hetman I.M. Zarutsky and Duma nobleman P.P. Lyapunov. On June 30, 1611 Sovet vsej Zemli adopted the Verdict which was a kind of Zemstvo Constitution. …”
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El inicio del juicio de residencia a donAlonso de Granada Venegas (Ocaña,Toledo, 1597) : algunas notas sobresu procedimiento by Carmen González Peinado

“…</p><p>The article focuses on the beginning of the juicio de residencia to Don Alonso de Granada Venegas, nobleman of moorish descent, governor of the province of Castilla Mancha y Ribera del Tajo, belonging to Military Order of Santiago, from 1594 to 1597, as well as public officials and the town council of Ocaña, seat of government. …”
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Modelos educativos de nobre e rei na Crónica de D. João I, de Fernão Lopes = Educational models for nobles and kings in Fernão Lopes’s John I’s Chronicles by Adriana Maria de Souza Zierer

“…Therefore, the two heroesand educational models of the chronicler Fernão Lopes are the nobleman Nuno Alvares Pereira, associated to the representation of the Arthurian knight Sir Galahad, and King John of Portugal, the Messiah of Lisbon, who ‘saved’ the city from the Castilian domain. …”
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Tragedia i dwór: Stan faktyczny oraz polemiczne użycie stereotypu w historii polskich przekładów Corneille’a i Racine’a by Michał Bajer

“…In Kopystyński’s life, translating Racine appears to be a perfect otium for an educated nobleman living in his family mansion in the country. …”
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Fake insanes and fools: another way of playing (without disguise) in Lope de Vega's theatre by José Enrique López Martínez

“…In this survey, I examine the metatheatrical sense of fake insanity, the dramatic subgenres where it was featured, its importance for the plots, and its relation to other forms of dramatic deception, like the woman in male disguise and the nobleman as servant; as well as some dramatic and literary devices it relied on: the different kinds of simulated madness, its discoursive features, and the motif of the fake wedding.…”
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