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Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles , written by Isaiah Gruber

Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles , written by Isaiah Gruber Isaiah Gruber, Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles . DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, 2012. xi, 299 pp. $48.00. Isaiah Gruber’s book is a useful addition to the growing English-language literature on the ‘Time of Troubles’ of the early seventeenth century. Its most significant contribution, however, is not so much to the history of the relationship between the Orthodox Church and the Russian people, as the title implies, but rather to our understanding of the development of concepts of monarchical legitimacy in the course of the dynastic crisis that lasted from the death of Tsar Fedor Ivanovich in 1598 to the accession of Michael Romanov in 1613. With the end of the Riurikid dynasty, the old hereditary principle of succession was superseded by the elective principle by which Boris Godunov came to the throne, although, as Gruber explains, Boris’s legitimation in terms of his selection by an Assembly of the Land was supplemented by the claim that the decision of the Assembly represented not only the ‘voice of the people’ but also ‘the voice of God’. Additionally, Boris was said to have been ‘blessed’ as the new ruler by his sister Irina, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles , written by Isaiah Gruber

Perrie, Maureen
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 49 (4): 484 – Jan 1, 2015
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Isaiah Gruber, Orthodox Russia in Crisis: Church and Nation in the Time of Troubles . DeKalb, IL : NIU Press, 2012. xi, 299 pp. $48.00. Isaiah Gruber’s book is a useful addition to the growing English-language literature on the ‘Time of Troubles’ of the early seventeenth century. Its most significant contribution, however, is not so much to the history of the relationship between the Orthodox Church and the Russian people, as the title implies, but rather to our understanding of the development of concepts of monarchical legitimacy in the course of the dynastic crisis that lasted from the death of Tsar Fedor Ivanovich in 1598 to the accession of Michael Romanov in 1613. With the end of the Riurikid dynasty, the old hereditary principle of succession was superseded by the elective principle by which Boris Godunov came to the throne, although, as Gruber explains, Boris’s legitimation in terms of his selection by an Assembly of the Land was supplemented by the claim that the decision of the Assembly represented not only the ‘voice of the people’ but also ‘the voice of God’. Additionally, Boris was said to have been ‘blessed’ as the new ruler by his sister Irina,

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