- Stolnik
:"For a related Romanian term, see
Stolnic ." for|the village inBulgaria |Stolnik, BulgariaStolnik was a court office in
Poland andMuscovy , responsible for serving the royal table.tolnik in Poland
In old-times
Poland of the firstPiast dukes and kings a court office.Since the
14th Century an honorable district office inPolish Kingdom and thePolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth .* Stolnik wielki koronny - Great Master of the Pantry of the Crown
* Stolnik wielki litewski - Great Master of the Pantry of Lithuania
* Stolnik koronny - Master of the Pantry of the Crown
* Stolnik litewski - Master of the Pantry of Lithuania
* Stolnik nadworny koronny - Court Master of the Pantry of the CrownAccording to the office hierarchy in
1768 , his position inthe Crown was overPodczaszy and under theDistrict Judge . In theGrand Duchy of Lithuania overPodstoli and underWojski .tolnik in Muscovy
Stolniks were known as palace servants of the Russian rulers since the
12th century . In the 16th and 17th centuries they were young nobles who brought dishes to the tsar's table, looked after his bedroom, and accompanied him in travels. The highest category comprised the "room" or "closer" stolniks.Stolniks could simultaneously serve in the foreign office or in the
army . They were ranked fifth in the hierarchy of Muscovite bureaucracy, afterboyar s,okolnichy s,duma nobles, andduma dyak s.Stolniks were also attached to episcopal administrations as were other similar offices also found in the grand princely or tsarist administration. For example, stolniks are found in documents from the archiepiscopal records in Novgorod the Great. [B. D. (Boris Dmitrevich) Grekov, "Novgorodskii Dom sviatoi Sofii; opyt izucheniia organizatsii i vnutrennikh otnoshenii krupnoi tserkovnoi votchiny, chast” I" (St. Petersburg: M. Aleksandrova, 1914. Reprinted in Izbrannye trudy, vol. 4: 7-436).]
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