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Gary Marker’s fascinating study of the cult of St. Catherine and the construction of a basis of legitimacy for female rule in early modern Russia reads like a well-plotted detective story, one of those murky ones where the detective is called to solve a case where the murder implement, the body, and even the basic fact of the murder are missing, obscure, or subject to doubt. Marker’s evident delight in exposing the shifting, unstable foundations of the legend of St. Catherine of Alexandria an...