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

by Sigismund von Herberstein

Overview

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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, first published in 1852, contains an English translation of the second 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. Here Herberstein describes the geography and history of the country, with more fascinating details about the people and their customs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108008082
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/02/2010
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)
Language:	Latin

Table of Contents

Advertisement; Notes upon Russia; Of the north-east frostie seas and kingdoms lying that way; Index.