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   Portraying the tsaritsy as exemplars of Muscovite femininity and consorts of powerful tsars did not increase the powers granted them by custom.

   2012, Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 37

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   By engaging in public pilgrimages to the shrines of these saints, the tsaritsy were acting as symbolic extensions of their royal husbands through their exercise of charity and justice along the pilgrimage path.

   2003, Isolde Thyrêt, “Women and the Orthodox Faith in Muscovite Russia: Spiritual Experience and Practice”, in Valerie Ann Kivelson, Robert H. Greene, editors, Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars, The Pennsylvania State University Press, →ISBN, part III (Encountering the Sacred), page 165

   On the one hand, the tsar’s wife (tsaritsa), sisters, and daughters (tsarevny) were players in court politics—tsaritsy were behind-the-scenes marriage brokers; they could represent their fathers’ and brothers’ interests; […]

   2017, Nancy Shields Kollmann, The Russian Empire 1450–1801, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135