Muscovy under Ivan the Terrible eyes of foreigners

The book includes descriptions of Muscovy made by foreigners who, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, were in different ways in Russian land. Some of them arrived of their own free will - in search of wealth, on trade business or with diplomatic orders, others fell as captives, but managed to get a job and made a quick career. Someone donkey in Russia for a long time, someone"s stay was short. Among them, the British are the navigator Richard Chansler and diplomat Gils Fletcher, representatives of noble lifland clans - the royal negotiators Johann Taube and Elert Cruze, the servant and translator of the personal doctor of Ivan the Terrible German Albert Shliching and another German - adventurer Henry Staden, who became the tsarist officer. Their descriptions are biased, sometimes one -sided, but together they make up the most valuable source of information about the Russian life of the second half of the 16th century. Each testimony was preface to the first publication in Russian