Assertion: ruthenian nobility | /r/HasProperty | ukrainian
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text: Ruthenian nobility (Ukrainian: Руська шляхта, Polish: szlachta ruska) refers to the nobility of Kievan Rus and Galicia–Volhynia, which found itself in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia, Samogitia, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and later Russian and Austrian Empires, and became increasingly polonized and later russified, while retaining a separate, cultural identity.