Answers to Internet quiz questions

October 11, 2016

QUESTIONS:

1. How was Yefrosinia Staritskaya related to Ivan IV?

2. What noble women were exiled to the Goritsy Convent of the Resurrection?

3. What is the difference in two pearl embroidery techniques – “stringing” and “pinning”?

ANSWERS:

1. Yefrosinia Staritskaya was the aunt of Ivan IV. She was the wife of Andrey Ivanovich Staritsky - uncle of Ivan IV.

2. The following noble women were exiled to the Goritsy Convent of the Resurrection: Princess Juliania Dmitrievna (nee Princess Polotskaya), wife of Prince Yuri Vasilievich, uncle of Ivan IV; Tsarina Anna Alexeevna Koltovskaya (the fourth wife of Ivan the Terrible); Pelagia Mikhaylovna, daughter-in-law of Ivan the Terrible (the second wife of his son Ivan); Tsarina Maria Nagaya (the last spouse of Ivan the Terrible, mother of Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich); Ksenia (daughter of Tsar Boris Godunov); Princess Cherkasskaya together with her nephew, future tsar Mikhail Romanov; Princess Elena Masalskaya; Princess Ekaterina Alexeevna Dolgorukova (engaged to Peter II, she was freed by Empress Elizabeth and married Count Alexander Bruce); Princess Irina Mstislavskaya; Tsarina Agafia (nee Sheremeteva); Princess Anna Golitsyna; Princess Anna Trubetskaya; Princess Maria Vorotynskaya; Princess Daria Silkova, Princess Marfa Poleva.

3. The difference in two pearl embroidery techniques – “stringing” and “pinning” is the following: in the “stringing” technique, first you string pearls onto the thread and then fasten this pearl thread to a piece of cloth. In the “pinning” technique, pearls are sewed directly on the cloth.

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