Paul Bushkovitch is Reuben Post Halleck Professor of History at Yale University where he has taught since 1975. He is the author of Religion and Society in Russia: the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1992), Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power (2001) and A Concise History of Russia (2011). He is a Member of the American Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, and a member of the editorial boards of Cahiers du monde russe and Quaestio Rossica.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Designation and heredity 1450-1533
3. Benediction to election 1533-1598
4. Election and heredity 1598-1645
5. Succession and the new culture of the court 1645-1689
6. Peter the Great and succession 1690-1719
7. Peter's heirs and Feofan Prokopovich 1719-1725
Conclusion
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