Stolnik

Stolnik ( , , , , ) was a court office in Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, responsible for serving the royal table, then an honorary court title and a district office. It approximately corresponds to English term "pantler".

Stolnik ( , , , , ) was a court office in Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Russia, responsible for serving the royal table, then an honorary court title and a district office. It approximately corresponds to English term "pantler". ==Stolnik in Russia== , 1869 based on that of Adam Olearius Stolniks were known as palace servants of the Russian rulers since the 13th century. They were also called chashniks, literally "cup-bearers". 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. Those who served tsar in his apartments called room or close stolniks ( ). Stolniks could simultaneously serve in the foreign office or in the army. They were ranked fifth in the hierarchy of Russian bureaucracy, after boyars, okolnichys, duma nobles, and duma dyaks. 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 Veliky Novgorod. ==See also== Offices in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Russian rank titles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Stavilac ==References==

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