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

Format:

Paperback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

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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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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.

Release date Australia

August 31st, 2010

Author

Sigismund Von Herberstein

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited and translated by Richard Henry Major

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

1 b/w illus. 2 maps

Imprint

Cambridge University Press

Pages

292

Publisher

Cambridge Library Collection

Series

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

Dimensions

140x216x17

ISBN-13

9781108008082

Product ID

9333150

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