Muscovy : Russia through Foreign Eyes 1553-1900
First Published 1970 Muscovy presents a lively and amusing selection of travellersâ tales from the most important of old and rare books. There is the journal of the Dutch sailor Struys whose imbroglios with Cossacks and Tartars reads more like a picturesque novel than a seamanâs log. There are accounts by visitors long resident in Russia who learned the language made friends with people like Captain John Perry engineer to Peter the Great Dr Cook physician to Prince Galitzin Martha Wilmot the Irish girl who helped Princess Dashkov to write her memoirs Daniel Wheeler the Quaker whom Alexander I invited to drain the marshes of St. Petersburg. Most of the travellers were baffled by the immense scale of Russia some perplexed and amused by its different ways of life. They describe the Russian landscape and the Russian people: how they lived in their cities and their villages what they ate and drank how they built their homes tilled their fields how they worshipped bore tyranny under which they lived celebrated birth marriage and death. Although Miss Wilsonâs account ends in 1900 her readers will recognize in the writings of the travellersâ sudden echoes and likenesses of Russia today. This is a must read for students of Russian history. | Muscovy Russia through Foreign Eyes 1553-1900
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First Published 1970 Muscovy presents a lively and amusing selection of travellersâ tales from the most important of old and rare books. There is the journal of the Dutch sailor Struys whose imbroglios with Cossacks and Tartars reads more like a picturesque novel than a seamanâs log. There are accounts by visitors long resident in Russia who learned the language made friends with people like Captain John Perry engineer to Peter the Great Dr Cook physician to Prince Galitzin Martha Wilmot the Irish girl who helped Princess Dashkov to write her memoirs Daniel Wheeler the Quaker whom Alexander I invited to drain the marshes of St. Petersburg. Most of the travellers were baffled by the immense scale of Russia some perplexed and amused by its different ways of life. They describe the Russian landscape and the Russian people: how they lived in their cities and their villages what they ate and drank how they built their homes tilled their fields how they worshipped bore tyranny under which they lived celebrated birth marriage and death. Although Miss Wilsonâs account ends in 1900 her readers will recognize in the writings of the travellersâ sudden echoes and likenesses of Russia today. This is a must read for students of Russian history. | Muscovy Russia through Foreign Eyes 1553-1900
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First Published 1970 Muscovy presents a lively and amusing selection of travellersâ tales from the most important of old and rare books. There is the journal of the Dutch sailor Struys whose imbroglios with Cossacks and Tartars reads more like a picturesque novel than a seamanâs log. There are accounts by visitors long resident in Russia who learned the language made friends with people like Captain John Perry engineer to Peter the Great Dr Cook physician to Prince Galitzin Martha Wilmot the Irish girl who helped Princess Dashkov to write her memoirs Daniel Wheeler the Quaker whom Alexander I invited to drain the marshes of St. Petersburg. Most of the travellers were baffled by the immense scale of Russia some perplexed and amused by its different ways of life. They describe the Russian landscape and the Russian people: how they lived in their cities and their villages what they ate and drank how they built their homes tilled their fields how they worshipped bore tyranny under which they lived celebrated birth marriage and death. Although Miss Wilsonâs account ends in 1900 her readers will recognize in the writings of the travellersâ sudden echoes and likenesses of Russia today. This is a must read for students of Russian history. | Muscovy Russia through Foreign Eyes 1553-1900
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