A posadnik (Russian: посадник, pl. посадники, posadniki) was a representative of the prince in some towns during the times of Kievan Rus', and later the...

elect and dismiss princes at its own will. The veche also elected the posadnik, who was the chief executive of the city, and from 1156, the archbishop...

located between Kyushu and Korea. On 13 March 1861, the Russian corvette Posadnik (Посадник, 1856), captained by Nicolai Birilev, arrived in Tsushima island...

in the 13th century in the Novgorod Republic for the office of posadnik. The posadnik shared executive power with the duke, and competition over who should...

but it continued to enjoy self-government under the supervision of a posadnik, or chief executive, that was appointed by Novgorod. Pskov had the status...

Ostromir (Russian: Остромир; Christian name: Joseph; died c. 1057) was the posadnik of Novgorod from 1054 to 1057. Ostromir is known from the first Russian...

Drevlians (990–1015) Anna Porphyrogenita Theophana, a wife of Novgorod posadnik Ostromir, a grandson of semi-legendary Dobrynya (highly doubtful is the...

Klas Horn was originally the Kazarski-class torpedo gunboat Posadnik of the Imperial Russian Navy. One of three built for the Russian Baltic Fleet, Posednik...

"stadtholder" is posadnik; the term sometimes occurs as "stadtholder" in English-language literature. Although there were such legendary posadniks as Gostomysl...

to elect borough officials. The veche for the city selected the prince, posadnik and archbishop. Historians debate whether the Novgorod veche consisted...