Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450-1725

by Paul Bushkovitch

Book Overview

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 persuasively demonstrates the many paths to succession to the throne, where designation of the heir and occasional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108749682
• ISBN13: 9781108749688
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 413 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"