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Meaning of Pomestye from wikipedia

- pomeshchiks (Russian: помещик) were the class of Russian nobility who owned a pomestye (Russian: поместье), i.e., an estate. The term pomeshchik is commonly translated...
- military service. Until the mid-17th century, a pomestye could only be exchanged for another pomestye, but the Sobornoye Ulozheniye of 1649 allowed for...
- state servants, who received estates for service in conditional holding ("pomestye" – military fief). In 1482, the landed army (Russian: Поместное войско)...