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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 IVANOV(illegible text) IN THE YEARS
1517 AND 1526.


TRANSLATED AND EDITED,

With Notes and an Introduction,

BY

R. H. MAJOR,

OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.



VOL. II.



"— 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.LII.