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.
Richard Chancellor (1553)
Richard Chancellor's 1553 expedition to Nyonoksa and Yagry V. Kosov 137х198 2015
Monument to Richard Chancellor at Yagry Island
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
Richard Chancellor
…and his successor, Mary, had executed Northumberland for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne. No stigma attached to Chancellor, and the Muscovy Company, as the association was now called, sent him again to the White Sea in 1555. On this voyage he learned what had happened to Willoughby, recovered his…
Ivan IV of Russia Shows His Treasury to Jerome Horsey (Alexander Litovchenko, 1875)
'The Old English Yard,' the house in Varvarka street, Moscow, where English ambassadors and merchants were allowed to reside