A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia by Russell E. Martin

A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia

Russell E. Martin

394 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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