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Article: Imperial Saint: The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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Imperial Saint: The Cult of St. Catherine and the Dawn of Female Rule in Russia. By Gary Marker. (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. xvii, 309. $42.00.)
Scholarship on Russia in the eighteenth century has tended to stress discontinuities from the past. In the master narrative, Peter the Great transformed Russia's intellectual and governmental elite, rejecting Muscovite traditionalism and religiosity and substituting western rationalism. However, a number of recent scholars have advanced a cogent alternative reading, documenting continuities between Muscovite and Imperial culture. This author is among them.
In this book, Gary ...
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