Table of Contents

Contents: Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in 16th- and 17th-century Russia; The gosti revisited; Fletcher's mission to Moscow and the Andrew Marsh affair; Was Krizanic; a mercantilist?; Shipbuilding and seafaring in 16th-century Russia; Did the Russians discover Spitsbergen?; Muscovy and the English quest for a Northeastern passage to Cathay (1553-1584); Thrust and parry: Anglo-Russian relations in the Muscovite north; Purchas on Russia and Central Asia; A.L. Ordin-Naschchokin and the Orel affair; William Borough and the Jenkinson Map of Russia (1562); B.A. Rybakov on the Jenkinson Map of Russia; Herberstein's image of Russia and its transmission through later writers; Herberstein and the English "discovery" of Muscovy; The influence of Herberstein's Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii in 16th-century England; Index.

About the Author

Samuel H. Baron, Emeritus, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA