title: Rude and Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of Sixteenth-Century English Voyagers
author: Lloyd E. Berry
description: <DIV><P>&ldquo;A volume that not only illustrates the nature and limits of English interest in Russia during the sixteenth century but which illuminates many important facets of Muscovite life.&rdquo;&mdash;C. Bickford O&rsquo;Brien, <I>Russian Review</I></P></DIV><br /><br /><DIV><P>&ldquo;With informative introductory pages, a useful glossary of Russian terms and an index, <I>Rude and Barbarous Kingdom</I> is a very worthwhile addition to the growing body of material in English on Muscovite Russia.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Canadian Slavonic Papers</I></P></DIV><br /><br /><DIV><P>&ldquo;<I>Rude and Barbarous Kingdom</I> is a good edition of valuable sources: a selection of the most important writings on Muscovy by Englishmen who came as traders and diplomats following the discovery of the White Sea route by Richard Chancellor in 1553 and the establishment of the Russia Company a year later.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Slavic Review</I></P></DIV><br /><br /><DIV><P>&ldquo;This modernized and annotated edition of the graphic accounts of six English travelers&mdash;Richard Chancellor, Anthony Jenkinson, Thomas Randolph, George Turberville, Giles Fletcher, and Jerome Horsey&mdash;to Muscovite Russia between 1553 and 1600 is a most welcome compilation.&rdquo;&mdash;<I>Virginia Quarterly Review</I></P></DIV>
zlib_text: ## THE DISCOVERY OF MUSCOVY ETC.
  
  Contents:  
  Introduction  
  The New Navigation and Discovery of The Kingdom Of Muscovy  
  The Coins, Weights, and Measures, used in Russia  
  The Voyage of the Ambassedor  
  The Manners, Usages, and Ceremonies of the Russians  
  The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan  
  King Alfred's Orosius  
  The Geography of Europe.  
  Elegiac verses by William Wordsworth  
  
  ### INTRODUCTION
  
  The first relations between England and Russia were established in Queen
  Elizabeth's reign, in the manner here set forth, by the expedition undertaken
  by Sir Hugh Willoughby and completed by Richard Chanceler or Chancellor,
  captain of the Edward Bonaventure. Chanceler went on after Willoughby and the
  crew of his ship, The Admiral, with the crew of another vessel in the
  expedition, had been parted from Chanceler in a storm in the North Sea, and
  Willoughby's men were all frozen to death. A few men belonging to the other
  ship were believed to have found their way back to England. The story o