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Among the chief problems in determining the boundaries of the early modern period in Russian history is die reign and reforms of Peter I the Great. In this article, Russell E. Martin situates Peter's reign within the context of dynastic marriage politics from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. He argues that the centuries from roughly 1500 to 1800 constitute a single, coherent period. Court politics were dominated by concerns of kinship and marriage: in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, by the search for a domesdc bride for the Russian rulers through bride shows; then, in the eighteenth century, by the gradual transformation of court politics away from domestic brides and toward a more traditional use of dynastic marriage as a tool in foreign policy. The early modern period ends, Martin argues, only with the promulgation of a new law of succession by Paul I (as modified by Alexander I). The so-called Petrine divide, then, is elided in a periodization of Russian history that very much mirrors the boundaries that are conventional in the west.

The Romanov dynasty came to the throne in 1613 after fifteen years of pretenders, peasant revolts, and foreign interventions, but the establishment of Romanov legitimacy would require time. In this article, Russell E. Martin explores how the wedding ritual of Tsar Mikhail Romanov was carefully constructed on the basis of previous royal weddings so as to appear fully consistent with previous Muscovite tradition. But Martin also shows that many elements of the wedding ritual were choreographed anew to create the image of the Romanovs as the legitimate heirs of the old Riurikid dynasty that had died out in 1598. Viewed in light of other efforts to legitimate their rule, the evidence from the weddings of the first Romanov tsar suggests how tenuous the new dynasty's hold on power was in its first decades on the throne and the ways that symbol and ritual were exploited to help establish the new regime.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Age of Secretaries -- Chapter 2 Records, Politics and Diplomacy: Secretaries and Chanceries in Renaissance Italy (1350-c. 1520) -- Chapter 3 Mercurino di Gattinara (1465-1530): Imperial Chancellor, Strategist of Empire -- Chapter 4 'This continuous writing': The Paper Chancellery of Bernhard Cles -- Chapter 5 Parables and Dark Sentences: The Correspondence of Sir William Cecil and William Maitland (1559-73) -- Chapter 6 Axel Oxenstierna and Swedish Diplomacy in the Seventeenth Century -- Chapter 7 Statecraft and the Role of the Diplomat in Ducal Savoy: The Career of Alessandro Scaglia (1592-1641) -- Chapter 8 Richelieu, Mazarin and Italy (1635-59): Statesmanship in Context -- Chapter 9 The Learned Ideal of the Mughal Wazīr: The Life and Intellectual World of Prime Minister Afzal Khan Shirazi (d. 1639) -- Chapter 10 Reconsidering State and Constituency in Seventeenth- Century Safavid Iran: The Wax and Wane of the Munshi -- Chapter 11 Choreographers of Power: Grigorii Kotoshikhin, State Secretaries and the Muscovite Royal Wedding Ritual -- Chapter 12 Eberhard von Danckelman and Brandenburg's Foreign Policy (1688-97) -- Chapter 13 Chancellor of State: Prince Wenzel Anton Kaunitz, the Habsburg Foreign Office and Foreign Policy in the Era of Enlightened Absolutism -- Index