Description
Book SynopsisTraces the Russian veneration of St Catherine of Alexandria from its beginnings in Kievan times through the onset of female rulership in the 18th century. This book offers insights for readers interested in saints' cults, the ritualization of power, and the relationship between gender and religion.
Trade ReviewA delightful book. It adds an important perspective on the problem of female rule in Russia....and reveals the enduring importance of religious symbolism and discourse at Peter the Great's court.
-- Nancy Shields Kollmann, Stanford University
Marker not only focuses new attention upon the understudied and disregarded Catherine I, but in so doing opens wide an innovative approach to the entire issue of "female rule" in eighteenth-century Russia.
-- Daniel Kaiser, Grinnell College
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Illustrations
Preface
1. The Problem of Female Rule
Part I: The Saint
2. Vitae: The Lives of St. Catherine
3. The Terem Chapel and the Romanov Women
4. Monasteries
5. Dimitrii Rostovskii and the Militant Bride of Christ
Part II: The Tsaritsa
6. The Order of St. Catherine
7. The Saint's Living Image
8. The Archbishop and the Empress: The Coronation of 1724
9. Sacralizing Female Rule
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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