Succession to the throne in early modern Russia : the transfer of power 1450-1725 / Paul Bushkovitch...
Succession to the throne in early modern Russia : the transfer of power 1450-1725 / Paul Bushkovitch...
Succession to the throne in early modern Russia : the transfer of power 1450-1725 / Paul Bushkovitch. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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English
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1 online resource (xv, 397 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
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aDesignation and heredity 1450-1533 -- Benediction to election 1533-1598 -- Election and heredity 1598-1645 -- Succession and the new culture of the court 1645-1689 -- Peter the Great and succession 1690-1719 -- Peter's heirs and Feofan Prokopovich 1719-1725.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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England
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2021.
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This revisionist history of succession to the throne in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of the fifteenth century to Peter the Great, argues that legal primogeniture never existed: the monarch designated an heir that was usually the eldest son only by custom, not by law. Overturning generations of scholarship, Paul Bushkovitch persuasiv...
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Succession to the throne in early modern Russia : the transfer of power 1450-1725 / Paul Bushkovitch. [electronic resource]
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74VKaz0axba3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0axba3
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1-108-78315-5
1-108-80127-7
1-108-78673-1
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947/.04
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991024402511102626
