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Someone just added more content. great! I did a litle cleanup - there is no point for example in including material for which there is no evidence, or saying that the sources do not address something; we should focus on what we do know, not what we do not.
i am also removing from the article the following:
There is an old legend saying that the Tsar accidentally saw her and fell in love with her while she was bathing in the Yantra river. The reliability of this source is dubious. More credit should probably be given to the version that Ivan Alexander saw her during a trial and fell in love with her immediately. Whatever the truth is, he proposed to her, causing a scandal within the court: first, his elected bride was a Jew; second, he was already married; third, her humble parentage could hardly match the noble lineage of the Tsar himself. Anyway, the marriage took place despite all difficulties.
This material may have merit, which is why I did not delete it. But we can't really keep it int the article as is. These claims need to be supported by reliable sources, and we need to know who holds these views. Purely as a matter of style, I would not use "Anyway" in an encyclopedia article, I don't think it reads very well. Can we learn more about the historical research that supportes this stuff? Are the views significant? Are the sources reliable?Slrubenstein | Talk02:24, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
