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- Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia
- Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Succession to the Throne, Autocracy, and Absolutism
- 2 Designation and Heredity 1450–1533
- 3 Benediction to Election 1533–1598
- 4 Election and Heredity 1598–1645
- 5 Succession and the New Culture of the Court 1645–1689
- 6 Peter the Great and Succession 1690–1719
- 7 Peter’s Heirs and Feofan Prokopovich 1719–1725
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- References
- Index
2 - Designation and Heredity 1450–1533
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 March 2021
- Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia
- Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Succession to the Throne, Autocracy, and Absolutism
- 2 Designation and Heredity 1450–1533
- 3 Benediction to Election 1533–1598
- 4 Election and Heredity 1598–1645
- 5 Succession and the New Culture of the Court 1645–1689
- 6 Peter the Great and Succession 1690–1719
- 7 Peter’s Heirs and Feofan Prokopovich 1719–1725
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
The Moscow principality was the scene of an intense battle over succession in the second quarter of the fifteenth century. After its end Prince Vasilii II designated his son Ivan as his successor. Ivan III’s two marriages created a problem. Ivan Ivanovich, his son by the first wife, died, leaving a son Dmitrii as a possible heir. Ivan III’s second wife, Sophia Palaiologina, had a son, Vasilii. In 1497 Ivan chose Dmitrii as his heir, but soon changed his mind. The designated heir was his son Vasilii. Vasilii in turn had no children by his first wife, Solomoniia Saburova, so he sent her to a convent and married the Lithuanian princess Elena Glinskaia. During this time the ceremonial oaths of loyalty came to include not just the Grand Prince but his wife and family.
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- Succession to the Throne in Early Modern RussiaThe Transfer of Power 1450–1725, pp. 33 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021