Woman's Kingdom
In A Woman''s Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen''s unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjoyed the right to alienate and manage their fortunes beginning in 1753. Marrese traces the extension of noble...
In A Woman''s Kingdom, Michelle Lamarche Marrese explores the development of Russian noblewomen''s unusual property rights. In contrast to women in Western Europe, who could not control their assets during marriage until the second half of the nineteenth century, married women in Russia enjoyed the right to alienate and manage their fortunes beginning in 1753. Marrese traces the extension of noble...
