The Arbanassi boyars

The people of Arbanassi and their way of life are best described by their contemporaries in the notes they left.
“At that time the population of the settlement was numerous; they were boyars (noblemen) having large luxurious houses in Wallahia. They brought golden coins by the thousand and adorned their wives and daughters with them… There were two or three casks of salad oil in each cellar and as many casks of olives. For Long Lent each household had five or six hampers of snails, tree or four octopus rolls, casks of caviar processed fish and all kinds of fruit…
The then Arbanassi boyars wore fine fur-coats, long silk clothes underneath, red shalwars (loose Turkish trousers) of broad cloth, silk socks, expensive waist-bands, tan shoes and slippers. They had sable fur caps lined with green Venetian velvet. The men were cleanly shaven and wore their hair long but well trimmed…
The women wore small crimson Tzarigrad fezzes having light blue silk tassels on top and there shone new Turkish gold coins. They wore their hair in nine to twelve plaits falling gently on their shoulders. Their dresses were long and loose, no frills at all, each of them worth a hundred ordinary dresses. Most of them were made of silk with small golden flowers interwoven in the material. They were sewn in the harems of Bagdad by the finest fingers possible. They had sleeveless jackets lined with golden thread over the dresses. The women wore white socks and yellow slippers and in rainy days they put on red studded shoes. Whenever there was a call or need for warmer clothing they put on their sable fur coats. When they went out or to church they put on fine silk kerchiefs from Bagdad.”
This is what the people from the church murals looked like in real life. Their names could be seen in the donor inscriptions in the numerous churches. What we know for sure is that they were rich people of fine taste who had pure faith and high morality. Moreover material proofs for all that have come down to us.

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