A Bride for the Tsar : : Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia / / Russell E. Martin.
From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidens—provided they hailed from the aristocracy—gathered in Moscow, where the tsar's trusted boyars reviewed their medical histories, evaluated their spi...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Charts and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Dates, Names, and Transliteration
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. "lt Would Be Best to Marry the Daughter of One of His Subjects"
- Chapter 2. "Without Any Regard for Noble Ancestry"
- Chapter 3. "If You Marry a Second Time, You Will Have an Evil Child Born to You"
- Chapter 4. "To Assuage the Melancholy
- Chapter 5. "Scheming to Be Rid of the Chosen Tsarevna"
- Chapter 6. "Worthy because the Tsar Adores You"
- Epilogue
- Appendix A. Excerpts from the Chronograph of the Marriages of Tsar Ivan Vasil'evich
- Appendix B. Candidates at the Bride-Shows for Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich, 16 70~ 1671
- Appendix C. Gifts Given to Candidates in the Bride-Show for Fedor Alekseevich, 1680
- Appendix D. Genealogies
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index