"Using an array of archival sources, this book argues that royal weddings in early modern Russia reflected and shaped court politics in thosecenturies of dramatic cultural and dynastic change"--
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The Tsar's Happy Occasion shows how the vast, ornate affairs that were royal weddings in early modern Russia were choreographed to broadcast powerful images of monarchy and dynasty. Processions and speeches emphasized dynastic continuity and legitimacy. Fertility rites blended C…
"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 liv…
"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"--
"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"--
"This book explores the history of Russian peasant bride theft - abduction, capture - from the adoption of Christianity in Kievan Rus in the late tenth century to the very early twentieth century. It argues that bride theft in eighteenth and nineteenth century Russia was practis…