Notes upon Russia/Volume 1

by Sigismund von Herberstein

WORKS ISSUED BY

The Hakluyt Society

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NOTES UPON RUSSIA.

VOL. I.

M.DCCC.LI

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Etched by Sarah E. Major.

THE BARON SIGISMUND VON HERBERSTEIN

In his State Dress, as Ambassador from the Emperor Maximilian to the Grand Duke Vasiley Ivanovich.

From an Original Drawing in the Grenville Library.

NOTES UPON RUSSIA:

BEING A TRANSLATION OF THE

Earliest Account of that Country,

ENTITLED

RERUM MOSCOVITICARUM COMMENTARII,

BY THE BARON

SIGISMUND VON HERBERSTEIN,

AMBASSADOR FROM THE COURT OF GERMANY TO THE GRAND
PRINCE VASILEY IVANOVICH, IN THE YEARS
1517 AND 1526.

TRANSLATED AND EDITED,

With Notes and an Introduction,

BY

R. H. MAJOR,

OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

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VOL. I

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"—if thou list to know the Russes well.

To Sigismundus booke repayre, who all the trueth can tell."

Turbervile. 1568.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

M.DCCC.LI.

LONDON:

RICHARDS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN.

ERRATA.

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Introduction,	page vi,	line 8,	for “1599-60”, read “1599-1600”.
Introduction,„	ix,	30,	for “Royal”, read “Royale”.
Introduction,„	xxi,	14,	for “Aut.”, read “Ant.”
Introduction,„	xxviii,	Note,	for “Humbolt”, read “Humboldt”.
Introduction,„	lxxi,	12,	for “Weid”, read “Wied”.
Introduction,„	lxxxviii,	3,	for “Polschaftn”, read “Potschaftn”.

THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

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SIR RODERICK IMPEY MURCHISON, G.C.St.S., F.R.S., Corr. Mem. Inst. Fr.,
Hon. Mem. Imp. Acad. Sc. St. Petersburg, &c., &c., President.

The EARL OF ELLESMERE.	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Vice-Presidents.
Capt. C. R. DRINKWATER BETHUNE, R.N., C.B.
Rear-Admiral Sir FRANCIS BEAUFORT, K.C.B.
CHARLES T. BEKE, Esq., Phil. D., F.S.A.
The LORD ALFRED S. CHURCHILL.
WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOLEY, Esq.
BOLTON CORNEY, Esq., M.R.S.L.
The Right Rev. LORD BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S.
The Viscount EASTNOR.
Sir HENRY ELLIS, K.H., F.R.S.
RICHARD FORD, Esq.
JOHN FORSTER, Esq.
R. W. GREY, Esq., M.P.
THOMAS HODGKIN, ESQ., M.D.
JOHN WINTER JONES, Esq.
Sir CHARLES LEMON, Bart., M.P.
P. LEVESQUE, Esq.
THOMAS RUNDALL, Esq.
The Hon. HENRY E. J. STANLEY.

R. H. MAJOR, Esq., F.R.G.S., Honorary Secretary.

TO

SIR HENRY ELLIS, K.H.

ETC. ETC. ETC.

AS TO HIS EARLIEST SURVIVING FRIEND,

AND THE SUGGESTER OF THIS TRANSLATION,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE INSCRIBED,

WITH EVERY SENTIMENT OF

GRATEFUL AFFECTION AND RESPECT,

BY

THE EDITOR.

Chapters (not listed in original)

• Preface
• Introduction
• Certaine Letters in Verse
• Dedication
• To the Reader
• Notes upon Russia