Jerome Horsey
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Sir Jerome Horsey, of Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire, was an English explorer, diplomat and politician in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Drawing from Stories of Russian Folk-Life by Donald Alexander MacKenzie.
Ivan IV of Russia Showing His Treasury to Jerome Horsey (from a 1875 Russian painting by Alexander Litovchenko)
Muscovy Company
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The Muscovy Company was an English trading company chartered in 1555. It was the first major chartered joint-stock company, the precursor of the type of business that would soon flourish in England an
Jerome Horsey
…arriving in 1573 and leaving in 1591. He got to know well many leading people at the Russian court. He first travelled to Moscow as an agent for the Russia Company, and later acted as an envoy of Tsar Ivan the Terrible to Queen Elizabeth and then from the English court under Queen Elizabeth to Ivan. After returning…
Vladimir Kosov. 1553 expedition of Richard Chancellor
'The Old English Yard,' the house in Varvarka street, Moscow, where English ambassadors and merchants were allowed to reside