Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century

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Excerpt from Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century: Comprising, the Treatise "of the Russe Common Wealth, " by Dr. Giles Fletcher, And the Travels of Sir Jerome Horsey, Knt, , Now for the First Time Printed Entire From His Own Manuscript The two works which form the present publication are connected by more than one tie of relationship. They treat of the state of Russia, or of affairs relating to its history, at the same period, and they are both written by men who had a personal knowledge of the country: the author of the former having visited it as an ambassador from Queen Elizabeth to the Czar Fedor Ivanovitch, in the year 1588, and the author of the latter having been, from about the year 1575 to 1591, more or less continually resident there, first as an agent of the Russia Company, and subsequently as an envoy from the English court. The one serves as a sequel to or complement of the other, for, as the first gives a view of the institutions and form of government of Russia, the distinctions of the several ranks of society, and the religion, habits and customs of the people, the other records incidents in history, observations of the characters of the sovereign and his principal ministers, and valuable anecdotes of personal adventure in the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.