Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire by Leslie P. Peirce

Empress of the East: How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

Leslie P. Peirce

368 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from the role of concubine to become the only queen in Ottoman history.In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxel...

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