The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible
ISBN-13:
9780801496899
ISBN-10:
0801496896
Author:
Carolyn Johnston Pouncy
Publication date:
1995
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Format:
Paperback
278 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780801496899
ISBN-10:
0801496896
Author:
Carolyn Johnston Pouncy
Publication date:
1995
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Format:
Paperback
278 pages
Summary
The "Domostroi": Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible (ISBN-13: 9780801496899 and ISBN-10: 0801496896), written by authors
Carolyn Johnston Pouncy, was published by Cornell University Press in 1995.
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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.
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