Meanings
- alternativeAlternative spelling of knyaginya.
Dashkova, E. R. (Ekaterina Romanovna), kniaginia, 1743–1810.
1995, Kyril FitzLyon, editor, The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN3 more examples
The main characters are adapted to the new locale: the Russian Kniaz is replaced with Prince Ianysh, the Kniaginia with the Czech Princess Lubusia, Natasha with a neighborhood beauty Eliza, and Rusalka with Vodaniza (from voda, water), who “rules over all rivers and lakes.”
2012, Inna Naroditskaya, Bewitching Russian Opera: The Tsarina from State to Stage, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 194In the year 1125, the kniaginia, Sviatopolk’s wife, died on February 28.
2024, Christian Raffensperger, Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBNThus, as there were multiple male rulers in Rus at one time bearing the title of kniaz’, there were also multiple female rulers in Rus at one time, bearing the title of kniaginia.
2024, Christian Raffensperger, Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 32
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