TY - BOOK ID - 85797891 TI - Succession to the throne in early modern Russia : the transfer of power 1450-1725 PY - 2021 SN - 1108786731 1108783155 1108479340 1108801277 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Heads of state KW - Monarchy KW - Inheritance and succession KW - Succession KW - History. KW - Russkai͡a pravoslavnai͡a t͡serkov KW - Influence. KW - Russia KW - Kings and rulers KW - Politics and government. KW - Bequests KW - Descent and distribution KW - Descents KW - Hereditary succession KW - Intestacy KW - Intestate succession KW - Law of succession KW - Succession, Intestate KW - Real property KW - Universal succession KW - Trusts and trustees KW - Kingdom (Monarchy) KW - Executive power KW - Political science KW - Royalists KW - Heads of government KW - Rulers KW - State, Heads of KW - Statesmen KW - Law and legislation KW - Chiesa ortodossa russa KW - Chiesa russa KW - Eglise russe KW - Orthodox Eastern Church (Russian) KW - Rosiĭsʹka pravoslavna t︠s︡erkva KW - RPT︠S︡ KW - Russian Church KW - Russian Orthodox Church KW - Russian Orthodox Eastern Church KW - Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche KW - Russische Orthodoxe Kirche KW - РПЦ KW - Російська православна церква KW - Русская православная церковь KW - Russie KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russland KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian Empire KW - Rosja KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85797891 AB - 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 elections were part of the relations of the monarch with the ruling elite, and to some extent the larger population. Exploring how the forms of designation evolved over the centuries as Russian culture changed, and in the later seventeenth century made use of Western practices, this study shows how, when Peter the Great finally formalized the custom in 1722 by enshrining the power of the tsar to designate in law, this was not a radical innovation but was in fact consistent with the experience of the previous centuries. ER -