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Archival Sleuths and Documentary Transpositions: Notes On the Typology and Textology of Muscovite Royal Wedding Descriptions

Archival Sleuths and Documentary Transpositions: Notes On the Typology and Textology of Muscovite... RUSSELL E. MARTIN (New Wilmington, PA, USA) ARCHIVAL SLEUTHS AND DOCUMENTARY TRANSPOSITIONS: NOTES ON THE TYPOLOGY AND TEXTOLOGY OF MUSCOVITE ROYAL WEDDING DESCRIPTIONS In 1976, V. D. Nazarov noticed something wrong in the archival descrip- tions of the Treasure Room at the Archive of Ancient Acts in Moscow. In one . especially important collection that was supposed to contain texts relating to the wedding between Tsar Ivan IV and Anastasiia Iur'eva in 1547, he saw shuffled together with these, a number of texts that could not possibly have belonged to Ivan's wedding, but rather to two others (of Ivan's father and younger brother). Nazarov carefully sorted the texts, correctly identified each, and published the first important. collection of wedding-related documents in more than a century.1 In 1984, A. L. Khoroshkevich saw something strange about the dowry inventory for the wedding of Elena, Ivan Ill's daughter, to Grand Duke Alexander of Lithuania in 1495. This text, while fragmentary, clearly contained information quite different from that in the published ver- sions of the inventory. What she had found was certainly the oldest extant wedding-related text, and her edition of it provided new and important clues about the material culture of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Russian History Brill

Archival Sleuths and Documentary Transpositions: Notes On the Typology and Textology of Muscovite Royal Wedding Descriptions

Martin, Russell E.
Russian History , Volume 30 (3): 253 – Jan 1, 2003
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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RUSSELL E. MARTIN (New Wilmington, PA, USA) ARCHIVAL SLEUTHS AND DOCUMENTARY TRANSPOSITIONS: NOTES ON THE TYPOLOGY AND TEXTOLOGY OF MUSCOVITE ROYAL WEDDING DESCRIPTIONS In 1976, V. D. Nazarov noticed something wrong in the archival descrip- tions of the Treasure Room at the Archive of Ancient Acts in Moscow. In one . especially important collection that was supposed to contain texts relating to the wedding between Tsar Ivan IV and Anastasiia Iur'eva in 1547, he saw shuffled together with these, a number of texts that could not possibly have belonged to Ivan's wedding, but rather to two others (of Ivan's father and younger brother). Nazarov carefully sorted the texts, correctly identified each, and published the first important. collection of wedding-related documents in more than a century.1 In 1984, A. L. Khoroshkevich saw something strange about the dowry inventory for the wedding of Elena, Ivan Ill's daughter, to Grand Duke Alexander of Lithuania in 1495. This text, while fragmentary, clearly contained information quite different from that in the published ver- sions of the inventory. What she had found was certainly the oldest extant wedding-related text, and her edition of it provided new and important clues about the material culture of

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