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Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/2004 - 8/31/2004

Funding Totals

$5,000.00 (approved)
$5,000.00 (awarded)

Roxolana: a Ukrainian Woman in the Ottoman Court

FAIN: FT-52827-04

Galina Ivanovna Yermolenko
De Sales University (Center Valley, PA 18034-9565)

My project traces the origins of the Hurrem/Roxolana legend and examines various representations of this Ukrainian woman in history and literature, focusing on the disparities among three varieties of cultural responses: Ottoman/Turkish, Western European, and Eastern European.