New Books in History

New Books in History


Russell Martin, “A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage in Early Modern Russia”

November 29, 2012

You probably know the story about the king who issues a call for the most beautiful girls in the land to be presented to him as potential brides in a kind of “bride-show.†And you might think this is just a myth. But actually it’s not. As Russell M