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
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
Henry Hudson
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Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United States.
Muscovy Company
…to sail through the Kara Gates, the strait between the islands of Vaygach and Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. In 1607 and 1608, the company sent Henry Hudson in two separate voyages in an attempt to find the Northeast Passage. Both voyages were unsuccessful. In 1646, Tsar Alexei I rescinded the exemption of…
One of many speculative portraits
Replica of the Halve Maen
Landing of Henry Hudson, 1609, at Verplanck Point, New York, by Robert Walter Weir
The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson, John Collier's 1881 painting of Hudson, his son, and loyal crew set adrift