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Ul`fel`dt, Iakob (Ulfeld, Jacob) Puteshestvie v Rossiiu
[ A Trip to Russia]
Transl. from Dannish by L.N. Godovikova
Moscow: Iazyki Slavianskoi Kul`tury, 2001 615 p. [16 color ill.] Serie: Studia Historica Hardcover. 14 x 21.5 cm ISBN: 5944570415 Language: RussianTravel notes of Jacob Ulfeld, Danish ambassador to Ivan the Fourth, the Terrible, include his reports about and observations of the first post Oprichnina years, the economic situation in Russia, Russian-Swedish and Russian-Polish military actions in the final phase of the Livonian war. This publication includes three versions of this text: the original text in Latin, translation into Danish of 1688, and a Russian translation. The texts are introduced by five articles by V.A. Antonov, L. Khoroshkevich, J.Lind, V. Rybakov, I. Vediushkina. There are several appendices in the book: The Tsar`s court in the Aleksandrova Sloboda; Russian medieval technology of making salt; deeds, dictionary, bibliography of books about Jacob Ulfeld, etc. 56 illustrations. Comments. Name and geographic index.
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