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Russell Martin, "A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage in Early Modern Russia" (NIU Press, 2012)
You probably know the story about the king who issues a call for the most beautiful girls in the land to be presented to him as potential brides in a kind of "bride-show." And you might think this is just…