Название: Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia: The Transfer of Power 1450–1725
Автор: Paul Bushkovitch
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479340
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 400
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.