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
Richard Chancellor
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Richard Chancellor was an English explorer and navigator; the first to penetrate to the White Sea and establish relations with the Tsardom of Russia.
Muscovy Company
…and Company of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places unknown") founded in 1551 by Thomas White (merchant), Richard Chancellor, Sebastian Cabot and Sir Hugh Willoughby, who decided to look for the Northeast Passage to China. The first expedition of the Company of Merchant…
Richard Chancellor (1553)
Monument to Richard Chancellor at Yagry Island