knyaginya

English

Etymology

From Russian княги́ня (knjagínja).

Noun

knyaginya (plural knyaginyas)

1. A Slavic princess consort.
   • 2013, Bogusław Andrzej Baczyński, Małgorzata Baczyńska, “The Testament Donation of Knyaz Fedor Sanguszko for the Monastery of St. Paul of Xeropotamou on the Holy Mount Athos (9^th November 1547)”, in Studia Ceranea, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, page 200:

     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.

   • 2016, Halldór Laxness, translated by Philip Roughton, Wayward Heroes, New York, N.Y.: Archipelago Books, →ISBN, page 410:

     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.

   • 2022, Vladimir Penchev, “What the coins from the Preslav treasure can tell us about the social status of its owner”, in Contributions to Bulgarian Archaeology, volume XII, →DOI, →ISSN, page 72:

     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.

Related terms

• knyaz