NOTES UPON RUSSIA:

BEING A TRANSLATION OF THE

Earliest Account of that Country,

ENTITLED

RERUM MOSCOVITICARUM COMMENTARII,

BY THE BARON

SIGISMUND VON HERBERSTEIN,

AMBASSADOR FROM THE COURT OF CERMANY TO THE GRAND
PRINCE VASILEY IVANOVICH, IN THE YEARS
1517 AND 1526.

TRANSLATED AND EDITED,

With Notes and an Introduction,

BY

R. H. MAJOR,

OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM

VOL. I

"--if thou list to know the Russes well.

To Sigismundus booke repayre, who all the trueth can tell."

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Turbervile. 1568.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.

M.DCCC.LI.