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The Zemskii Sobor of 1575: A Mistake in Translation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

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References

1 V. I., Koretskii, “Zemskii sobor 1575 g. i postavlenie Simeona Bekbulatovicha ‘Velikim Kniazem Vsea Rusi,” Istoricheskii arkhiv, No. 2, 1959, pp. 148–56.Google Scholar

2 Ibid., p. 153 (Document No. 2).

3 Ibid., pp. 148, 149. These are Koretskii's quotations from the 1909 Russian translation of the Travels. Although the translation is not available to me, it should be safe to assume that Koretskii is quoting accurately.

4 Ibid., p. 149.

5 “Travels of Sir Jerome Horsey,” in Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, ed. E. A. Bond (London: Hakluyt Society, 1856), p. 175.

6 Ibid., p. 177.

7 Ibid., p. 181. Maria Fedorovna Nagaia is usually considered Ivan's seventh wife, although some count her number five since the two immediately preceding her were not married in appropriate ceremonies.

8 Ibid., p. 180, n. 1.

9 Printed in Khrestomatiia po istorii SSSR XVI-XVII vv., ed. A. A. Zimin (Moscow, 1962), pp. 202-5.

10 Platonov, S. F., K istorii moskovskikh zemskikh sobor (St. Petersburg, 1905), pp. 26, 27Google Scholar. Platonov based his discussion here on the documents in Akty moskovskago gosudarstva (St. Petersburg), Vol. I (1890), Nos. 1-14.