A bride for the Tsar : bride-shows and marriage politics in early modern Russia /
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 s...
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DeKalb, IL :
NIU Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Lehigh
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Electronic book |
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Villanova
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GT2756.A2 M37 2012 |
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