| ACER: Association Chrétienne des
Etudiants Russes; Christian Union of Russian Students.
Marshall of Nobility: the most important task of a Marshall of Nobility was the presidency of the zemstvo; besides that he was an important link between the local population and the government in St. Petersburg. The district Marshalls of Nobility were appointed by the nobility itself, while the provincial Marshalls of Nobility were appointed by the Tsar. Bedniaki: poor farmers; they who didn't possess cattle and granaries. Bolsheviki: members of the majority party. This notion was used very wrongly, because the bolsheviki were in fact a party of the minority. Chin: the `steps' of Peter the Great's table of ranks. Govenie: preparation for confession. Igumen: superior of a monastery. Intelligentsia: progressive population group of which the members usually had more than a secondary school education. Kabala-slaves: probational slaves; contract workers. Mensheviki: members of `the' minority party. Mir: village council. Muzhik: peasant. Sometimes also used as vituperation. Obrok: lease. Pomyestye: land tenure. Prikaz: department; predecessor of ministry. ROVS: Union of Russian Veterans Outside Russia. Ryurikides: descendants of Rurik. All of them were grand monarchs, but since Peter the Great they may only call themselves `prince'. Starets: elderly monk with strict ascetic way of living. Tayinstvo: sacrament of the Russian-Orthodox Church. Trudovik: member of the Social-Democratic People's Party Uezd: district. Veche: urban assembly of all free men. Zemsky sobor: national assembly of all free men. Zemstvo: regional home rule. BibliographyMost important written sourcesDolgorouky, Prince Pierre Notice sur les Principalles Familles de la Russie, Berlin 1859Ponfilly, Raymond de Guide des Russes en France, Paris 1990 Sumner, B.H. Survey of Russian History, Oxford 1947 Vernadsky, G. A history of Russia, New Haven, Conn. 1961 Other written sourcesBlair Lovell, James Anastasia, the lost princess Washington, 1991Botkine, Tatiana Anastasia retrouvée, Paris 1985 Buckle, Richard George Balanchine, London 1988 Daniloff, Nicholas Two lives, one Russia, London 1988 Denikin, A.I. The White Army, Cambridge 1992 D”mling, Wolfgang Igor Strawinsky, in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, Hamburg 1982 Dragadze, Peter The White Russians, in Town & Country, March 1984 Figner, Vera Night over Russia, Amsterdam 1930 Heresch, Elisabeth Feigheit, Lüge und Verrat, Munich 1992 Ignatieff, Michael Russian Album, London 1991 Jussupoff, Fürst Felix Rasputins Ende, Munich 1985 Massie, Robert K. Nicholas and Alexandra, London 1969 Massie, Robert K. Peter the Great - his life and world, New York 1985 Metternich, Tatiana Verschwundenes Russland, Vienna 1980 Nijinsky, Romola The diary of Vaslav Nijinsky, London 1963 Ouspensky, P.D. Letters from Russia 1919, London 1978 Rachmanowa, Alia Studenten, Liebe, Tscheka und Tot Vienna, 1931 Radzinsky, Edvard The Last Tsar Ä The Life and Death of Nicholas II, London 1992 Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Henriëtte Foundations and problems of the new culture in Soviet-Russia, Amsterdam 1932 St. John of Kronstadt Press 1991-1992 Directory of parishes and clergy, church organizations and suppliers of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, Liberty, USA 1991 Summers, Anthony & Mangold, Tom The file on the Tsar, New York and London 1976 Sutherland, Christine The princess of Siberia, London 1984 Troyat, Henri La vie quotidienne en Russe au temps du dernier Tsar, Paris 1959 Vishnevskaya, Galina Galina, London 1984
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