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
Ivan IV of Russia Shows His Treasury to Jerome Horsey (Alexander Litovchenko, 1875)
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
Sir Jerome Horsey, of Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire, was an English explorer, diplomat and politician in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Muscovy Company
…now working within Russia. History Map of Muscovy prepared by Anthony Jenkinson and Gerard de Jode (1593) Ivan IV of Russia Shows His Treasury to Jerome Horsey (Alexander Litovchenko, 1875) Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands The Muscovy Company traces its roots to the Company of Merchant Adventurers…
Drawing from Stories of Russian Folk-Life by Donald Alexander MacKenzie.