Kinship and Politics: The Making of the Muscovite Political System, 1345-1547

by Nancy Shields Kollmann

Genres: History

324 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1987

About the author

Nancy Kollmann has taught early modern Russian history at Stanford University since 1982. Her research has focused on the problem of how politics worked in an autocratic state; she has studied how the great men of the Moscow court received and enhanced their political positions through marriage and kinship, how the tsar's government supported litigations over personal honor for all social groups as a means of social integration and how criminal law was applied in practice. She has also focused on the image of Russia conveyed to Europeans in contemporary engravings, maps, and books.