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This image shows Crimean Tatars traveling on foot, on horseback, and in camel-driven wagons.

Crimean Tatar women walk with jugs of water toward a house in the distance. A pregnant woman in the foreground wears a head covering; the younger women wear skullcaps (tiubeteikas) - all but the bareheaded women with a jug balanced on her right…

Women are rarely mentioned in the documents describing noble status, but they are all over the cases described in the Senate confirmation lists. Throughout "Beautiful Spaces" I have used a very basic tag - "women" - to mark Items in which a woman is…

Inscribed in part 3 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those who attained civil rank of 8 or higher).

Inscribed in part 2 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those whose noble status was defined by military service).

Inscribed in part 3 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those who attained civil rank of 8 or higher).

Inscribed in part 3 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those who attained civil rank of 8 or higher).

Inscribed in part 2 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those whose noble status was defined by military service).

Inscribed in part 1 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for recipients of imperial seals, stamps, and coats-of-arms).

Inscribed in part 3 of the rodoslovnaia kniga (reserved for those who attained civil rank of 8 or higher).