Editing Tsarevna (section)

{{Short description|Daughter of a Russian tsar}}
[[File:Царэўна.JPG|thumbnail|Painting of a tsarevna by [[Vasily Surikov]]]]
'''Tsarevna''' ({{langx|ru|царевна}}, {{IPA|ru|t͡sɐˈrʲevnə|IPA}}) was a title given to the daughters of [[tsar]]s in Russia before the 18th century.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Martin |first1=Russell E. |title=A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia |date=15 June 2012 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-5665-8 |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vf7-DwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref> The male equivalent was ''[[tsarevich]]''.

All of them died unmarried with the exception of the daughters of [[Ivan V of Russia|Ivan V]]. Notably, his daughter [[Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia|Catherine]] married [[Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin|Karl Leopold]] of [[Mecklenburg-Schwerin]].

Both ''tsarevna'' and ''tsarevich'' were replaced with ''[[List of grand duchesses of Russia|grand duchess]]'' and ''[[List of grand dukes of Russia|grand duke]]'' (with ''[[tsesarevich]]'' given to the [[heir apparent]]).