Meanings
plural tsarevnas · plural tsarevny · alternative czarevna · alternative tzarevna · alternative Tsarevna
- The daughter of a tsar.
The Tsaréviches and Tsarévnas have each separate apartments and servants to look after them.
1967, Leo Wiener, Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, volume 1, page 1385 more examples
The ban on marriage for the tsarevny was clearly linked with developments in Russia’s political structure and religious status.
1990, Lindsey Hughes, Sophia, Regent of Russia: 1657–1704, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 18If 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.
2001, Isolde Thyrêt, Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia, Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 14And 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.
2004, Evgeniĭ Viktorovich Anisimov, Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia, page 186There 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.
2010, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Alexandra S. Korros, Aron I͡Akovlevich Gurevich, Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Other Related Subjects, page 120And 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.
2012, Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, pages 37–38
Origin
- Russianцаре́вна
- Russianцаре́вна
- Englishtsarevna
Borrowed from Russian царе́вна (carévna).
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