The Domestic Life of Russian Tsars in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Ivan Yegorovich Zabelin (1820–1908) was a prominent Russian historian and archaeologist. His most famous work is "The Domestic Life of the Russian People in the 16th and 17th Centuries." "The Domestic Life of Russian Tsars in the 16th and 17th Centuries" (1862) is the first part, and "The Domestic Life of Russian Tsarinas in the 16th and 17th Centuries" (1869) is the second. Both books have been reprinted multiple times and continue to be of great interest not only to specialists but also to all lovers of national history. "The Domestic Life of Russian Tsars in the 16th and 17th Centuries" is essentially the first attempt to study the everyday life of the royal court, which helps to better understand the uniqueness of national culture and statehood. The sources introduced into research for the first time allowed Zabelin to trace the formation and then the decline of the patriarchal structure of Russian life by the start of Peter's reforms.