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Roxolana as a Western painter imagined her. Entrance to the Sultan’s harem was forbidden to outsiders, but from various accounts, Western artists were able to construct this image of what Roxolana looked like. (Illustration from Noel Barber, The Sultans). Suleiman the Magnificent as a young man. Handsome, brave, and serious, Suleiman is generally considered the greatest of Ottoman sultans. (Barber, The Sultans). sians for the hardness of their Bodies and their enduring of Labour, which considerations often send them to row in the Grand Signior’s Gallies, then the Coassaks, then the Georgians, and last of all the Mengrelians (a Cauca sian people). (Cantemir, from his famous book, The His tory of the Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire, the first edition of which was published in London in 1734). C a n te m ir c o n tin u e s th u s: The Germans, Venetians, and Hungarians (whom they are wont to call by the name of Ifrank) are by them thought incapable of all drudgery, by reason of the soft ness of their Bodies, and the Women of giving pleasure proper to their Sex from the hardness of theirs. So that were Slavs produc’d in the Market out of all these Nations of the same age, strength, or beauty, a Chercas- sian, Man or Woman, would be sold for 1000 Imperial Crowns, a Polander for 600, Abaza for 500, a Russ or a Cozac for 400, a Georgian for 300, a Mengrelian for 250, a German or Ifrank for still less. It w ill b e n o tic e d th a t it is m o s tly th e v a rio u s C h ris tia n p e o p le s o f E u ro p e a n d th e p a g a n p e o p le s o f th e C a u c a s u s th a t a re m e n tio n e d in th is d e s c rip tio n . T h is w a s b e c a u s e Is la m ic la w fo rb a d e th e e n s la v e m e n t o f fr e e -b o rn M o s le m s a n d th e p rin c ip a l s o u rc e s o f sla ves fo r th e O tto m a n E m p ire w e re in w a rfa re o r raid s a lo n g th e b o rd e r w ith C h ris te n d o m o r th ro u g h tr ib u te fro m th e v a rio u s C a u c a s ia n trib e s . S in c e it b o rd e re d d ire c tly on th e C rim e a n K h a n a te , ’’U k ra in e ”, w h ic h in fa c t o rig in a lly m e a n t “ B o rd e rla n d ”, w a s v e ry e x p o s e d to T a ta r raids. T h u s th e fa te o f R o x o la n a w a s n o t e n tire ly u n iq u e . A c c o rd in g to o u r s o u rc e s , R o x o la n a e n te re d S u le i m a n 's h a re m a b o u t th e y e a r 1 5 2 0 w h e n h e b e c a m e su l ta n . T h e r e a re v a rio u s s to rie s a b o u t h o w s h e g o t th e re . O n e a c c o u n t s ta te s th a t th e G ra n d V iz ie r, Ib ra h im , b o u g h t h e r fo r S u le im a n ; a n o th e r th a t s h e w a s b o u g h t b y S u le im a n ’s m o th e r, th e s o -c a lle d sultan-valide (m o th e r o f th e s u lta n ), b e c a u s e S u le im a n ’s firs t fa v o rite , a w o m a n n a m e d G u lb e h a r, ’’th e F lo w e r o f S p rin g ”, h ad b o rn e h im v e ry s ic k ly c h ild re n , m o s t o f w h o m h ad a lre a d y d ie d , an d th e sultan-valide w a s a fra id fo r th e fu tu re o f th e d y n a s ty . A t a n y ra te , o n c e sh e h a d e n te re d th e h a re m , R o x o la n a w o u ld h a v e b e e n g iv e n th e e d u c a tio n a n d tra in in g b e fittin g th e c o n s o rt o f a g re a t k in g . S h e w o u ld h a v e b e e n ta u g h t T u rk is h a n d p e rh a p s s o m e A ra b ic a n d P e r s ia n , th e re lig io u s a n d p o e tic la n g u a g e s o f th e d a y , m u s ic , s in g in g , a n d d a n c in g , an d th e o th e r fe m in in e a rts . B y all a c c o u n ts , R o x o la n a w a s n o t p a rtic u la rly b e a u tifu l, b u t sh e h a d a s lig h t, g ra c e fu l fig u re , g re a t c h a rm , a n d a c h e e rfu l d e m e a n o r th a t s o o n g a in e d h e r th e e p ith e ts Khurrem, ’’th e jo y fu l o n e ”, a n d Khasseki, ’’th e m o s t b e lo v e d ” . S u le im a n w a s im m e d ia te ly c a rrie d a w a y by th e y o u n g U k ra in ia n g irl a n d w ith in a y e a r sh e had b o rn e h im a son (th e firs t o f s e veral c h ild re n ). O n c e s h e h a d s h a re d th e S u lta n ’s b e d , a n d even m o re -s o o n c e sh e h ad b o rn e him a so n , R o x o la n a e n te re d th e s tra n g e w o rld o f h a re m p o litic s . L ik e all 16 НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, ЖОВТЕНЬ 1995 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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