Glossary of Russian nobility and royalty

Categories of Russian nobility and Russian royalty

• Knyaz (as ancient ruler), knyaginya, knyazhna (daughter)
• Velikiy Knyaz (Grand Duke, Grand Prince, as a ruler)
• Boyar
• Tsar (Emperor), Tsaritsa (Tsarina) (Empress, Empress consort)
• Tsar family
• Tsesarevich
• Tsarevich, Tsarevna
• Velikiy Knyaz (Grand Prince, Grand Duke) (as an aristocratic title), Velikaya Knyaginya (Grand Princess), Velikaya Knyazhna (Grand Princess)
• Dvoryanstvo
• Titled Dvoryanstvo (titulovannoye dvoryanstvo)
• Count
• Baron
• Knyaz (as title)

Hierarchy before Peter the Great

According to Gerhard Friedrich Müller's ':