Intro -- Contents -- About Benjamin Uroff -- From Marshall Poe -- Marshall Poe Kotoshikhin's World -- {33} Chapter 2 On the tsar's officials: on the boyars and okol'nichie and Duma men and closest m -- Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich by Grigorii Karpovich Kotoshikhin -- Appendix 1. Weights, Measures, and Currency in Kotoshikhin -- Index.
First English edition of "On Russia in the Reign of Aleksei Mikhailovich", the only native source that describes the character of the seventeenth-century Russian state and society. It offers a unique and detailed picture of the nature of Russian "autocracy", life at the tsar's court, social mores of the nobles and commoners, military affairs, diplomatic relations, etc.. The book is a veritable ethnographic encyclopedia of early Russian life.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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