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Tsars in Troubles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Jonathan Shepard
Jonathan Shepard
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Faculty of History, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 413 - 423
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References

1 Fletcher, Giles, Of the Russe Commonwealth (London, 1591)Google Scholar, facsimile edition by R. Pipes and J. V. A. Fine jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1966). p. 41.

2 Ibid. p. 26.

3 Ibid. p. 34 verso.

4 Hellie, R., Slavery in Russia 1450–1725 (Chicago, 1982), p. 688Google Scholar.

5 Ibid. pp. 681–2, 468.

6 Cited in ibid. p. 575. The attribution to John Meyrick, an Englishman, is probable but not certain.

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9 Ibid. p. 167.

10 Ibid. p. 172.

11 Platonov, S. F., The Time of Troubles, trs. Alexander, John T. (Lawrence, Kansas, 1985)Google Scholar; Skrynnikov, Ruslan G., Boris Godunov, trs. Graham, Hugh F. (Gulf Breeze, Florida, 1982)Google Scholar; idem, Minin i Pozharsky (Moscow, 1981); idem, Sotsialno-politicheskaya borba v russkom gosudarstve v nachale XVII veka (Leningrad, 1985).

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13 Though in 1606 Basil Shuitsky's boyar colleagues showed interest in the idea that the realm should be carved up into principalities: Skrynnikov, , Troubles, p. 43Google Scholar.

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21 Ibid. p. 55. A fortnight later, Istoma Pashkov and his military servicemen likewise deserted.

22 Ibid. pp. 268–70.

23 Ibid. p. 209.

24 Ibid. pp. 276–7. The Romanovs' tale is reminiscent of claims by post-Conquest Norman writers that Edward the Confessor had formally appointed William of Normandy as his heir: Barlow, F., Edward the Confessor (London, 1970), pp. 107–8Google Scholar.

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