Meaning of tsarevna | Babel Free

Definitions

The daughter of a tsar.

Examples

“The Tsaréviches and Tsarévnas have each separate apartments and servants to look after them.”

“The ban on marriage for the tsarevny was clearly linked with developments in Russia’s political structure and religious status.”

“If my research treats the potential of Muscovite tsaritsy and tsarevny to participate in affairs of the realm optimistically, this does not imply that I deny the difficulties of their position.”

“And a long line of bridegrooms courted the tsarevna one after another:[…]Perhaps the fastidious tsarevna might even have found some of the bridegrooms to her liking.”

“There he became acquainted with maids in service to Ekaterina Alekseevna, Peter the Great's half-sister, and through them, he gained the tsarevna’s favor.”

“And no women were more walled in than the tsarevny, the daughters of the tsars, for they were prohibited from marrying on the grounds that no Russian was high-ranking enough for them and no suitably prestigious royal foreigner professed the true faith, that is, Russian Orthodoxy. So the grandiose ambitions of the tsarevny’s fathers led to lifelong spinsterhood for them.”

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