The Moscovia of Antonio Possevino, S.J.
Translated with a Critical Introduction and Notes by Hugh F. Graham
Antonio Possevino
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977
This translation provides a descriptive account of the court of Tsar Ivan IV, in sixteenth-century Moscow, as seen through the eyes of papal envoy and Jesuit Antonio Possevino S.J. , who was sent to negotiate a peace between Muscovy and the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth.
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