Notes upon Russia
A Translation of the Earliest Account of that Country, Entitled Rerum moscoviticarum commentarii, by the Baron Sigismund von Herberstein

The first part of Herberstein's account of his visits to Russia in 1517 and 1526, published in English in 1851.

Sigismund von Herberstein (Author), Richard Henry Major (Edited and translated by)

9781108008075, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2010

300 pages, 2 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.38 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume contains the first part of the account by Sigismund von Herberstein (1486–1566) of his visits to Russia in 1517 and 1526 as Ambassador of the Holy Roman Emperor. He published his Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii in Latin in 1549, and it is the earliest detailed Western description of the land and people of Russia. It is preceded in this 1851 translation by a set of letter-poems written to his friends by George Turberville, who visited Russia in 1568.

Preface
Introduction
1. Certaine letters in verse
2. Notes upon Russia.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]