Skutelniken
Skutelniken (spelling in Heinrich Berghaus : Skutel'niken ) referred to free episcopal and monastery farmers in the Bessarabian class order at the time of belonging to Russia in the 19th century . In the order of the estates they were above the tsarans and below the bashenars .
Individual evidence
- Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Annals of geography, ethnology and national studies. Volume 12, Grass, Barth & Company, 1841, p. 324 → online