tsarevna

English

A portrait of Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russia, by I. N. Nikitin, 1714

Alternative forms

• czarevna
• tsesarevna
• tzarevna
• Tsarevna (particularly when used as a title)

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian царе́вна (carévna).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(t)sɑːˈɹɛvnə/, /zɑːˈɹɛvnə/

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Noun

tsarevna (plural tsarevnas or tsarevny)

1. The daughter of a tsar.
   • 1967, Leo Wiener, Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time‎^[1], volume 1, page 138:

     The Tsaréviches and Tsarévnas have each separate apartments and servants to look after them.

   • 1990, Lindsey Hughes, Sophia, Regent of Russia: 1657–1704, New Haven, Conn., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 18:

     The ban on marriage for the tsarevny was clearly linked with developments in Russia’s political structure and religious status.

   • 2001, Isolde Thyrêt, Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia, Northern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 14:

     If 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.

   • 2004, Evgeniĭ Viktorovich Anisimov, Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia‎^[2], page 186:

     And 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.

   • 2010, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Alexandra S. Korros, Aron I͡Akovlevich Gurevich, Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and Other Related Subjects, page 120:

     There 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.

   • 2012, Barbara Evans Clements, A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, pages 37–38:

     And 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.

Related terms

• tsar
• tsarevich
• tsarina
• tsaritsa

Anagrams

• Tavernas, Tsarnaev, aversant, tavernas

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Russian царе́вна (carévna).

Noun

tsarevna m (definite singular tsarevnaen, indefinite plural tsarevnaer, definite plural tsarevnaene)

1. tsarevna

See also

• tsarevitsj m (“tsarevich”)

References

• “tsarevna” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Russian царе́вна (carévna).

Noun

tsarevna f (definite singular tsarevnaa, indefinite plural tsarevnaer, definite plural tsarevnaene)

1. tsarevna

See also

• tsarevitsj m (“tsarevich”)

References

• “tsarevna” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.