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Like many operas such as Carmen and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk
the main female character Marfa dies because she swept up in to a
love affair involving many different partners vying for each others
love. The innocent Marfa is swept up into just because of her
beauty and no other reason it is fickle and shallow representation of
how men see women and is not completely representative of the
1899 Russia.
Context is needed to understand how easily Ivan IV procures wives
such as Marfa, who was the third wife out of a total of seven he had
in his lifetime. In 16th century Russia marital shows occurred when
Male nobility wanted to choose a respectable wife. Women would
usually willingly place themselves in front of the nobility and it did
not matter if they were previously betrothed nobility could choose
whom ever they liked and the parents of young would almost always
agree to it as it gave there family name more respect within Russia.
Women in Russia