knyaginya

Noun

knyaginya (plural knyaginyas)

1. A Slavic princess consort.
   • 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.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 (9ᵗʰ November 1547)”, in...
   • 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.2016, Halldór Laxness, translated by Philip Roughton, Wayward Heroes, New York, N.Y.: Archipelago Books, →ISBN, page 410