WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the 13th and 14th centuries, in the northeastern Russian principalities, the boyars were a privileged class of rich landowners; they served the prince as his aides and councillors but retained the right to leave his service and enter that of another prince without losing their estates.

Detailed explanation-2: -His young life was disrupted by struggles for power among Russia’s landowning nobles, known as boyars. The boyars fought to control young Ivan.

Detailed explanation-3: -A boyar was a member of the ruling nobility in medieval Russia and some other Slavic countries such as Bulgaria. The boyars held the most important jobs in the army. They met in a group called the duma and gave advice to the ruling prince or, in later times, the tsar.

Detailed explanation-4: -After dealing with Novgorod for a 4th time, Ivan went in and stripped all Boyars of their wealth and land. He took over three million acres of land and untold fortunes.