| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 359 pages) : ‡b illustrations |
| Series |
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies |
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NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
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| Contents |
"Time to attend to the wedding": origins and traditions -- "A canonical marriage for the uninterrupted succession to your royal dynasty": royal weddings and dynastic legitimacy -- "And unlike previous royal weddings, there was no great assembly": continuity and change -- "To live together in holy matrimony": orthodox and heterodox -- "To serve without regard for place": kin and courtiers -- "To see your royal children on the thrones": brides and gifts -- "Delight in exposing the old methods of the country": transfigurations and parodies -- "There will not be any direful reversions": heirs and successors |
| Summary |
"Using an array of archival sources, this book argues that royal weddings in early modern Russia reflected and shaped court politics in those centuries of dramatic cultural and dynastic change"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
royal weddings, Russian wedding, royal women in russia, Peter the Great, The Romanov Dynasty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 22, 2021) |
| Subject |
Marriage customs and rites -- Political aspects -- Russia
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Marriage customs and rites -- Russia -- History -- 16th century
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Marriage customs and rites -- Russia -- History -- 17th century
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Royal houses -- Russia -- History -- 16th century
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Royal houses -- Russia -- History -- 17th century
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HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Marriage customs and rites
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Royal houses
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Russia
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020034810 |
| ISBN |
9781501754869 |
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1501754866 |
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9781501754852 |
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1501754858 |
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