The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible

The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible

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Book Description
Winner of the 1994 Heldt Prize from the Association of Women in Slavic Studies

A detailed and colorful instruction manual on household management in sixteenth-century Russia, the Domostroi gives a fascinating glimpse of the world of the nobility. This "how-to" guide is one of the few sources on the social history and secular life of Russia in the time of Ivan the Terrible. Carolyn Johnston Pouncy here offers, with an informative introduction, the first complete English translation.

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible,Carolyn Johnston Pouncy,Cornell University Press,0801496896,Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union,General,Sociology,European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland),Russia,Social history

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