Between clan and crown
Subtitle: the struggle to define noble property rights in Imperial Russia
By: Lee A. Farrow.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Newark, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Real property -- Russia -- History.; Inheritance and succession -- Russia -- History.; Nobility -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Russia -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Property and inheritance laws in the Muscovite period; title: The petrine revolution; title: "Everyone sees the world from his own bell tower": the law of single inheritance and its repeal; title: Fool's gold : property legislation under Catherine II; title: Women, inheritance, and the boundaries of kinship; title: The best laid plans : the problem of the childless landowner; title: The long arm of the law : redemption and confiscation; title: The many dimensions of noble insecurity.