Muscovy; Russia Through Foreign Eyes, 1553-1900

New York: Praeger, New York, 1970. First Edition. Octavo with red cloth boards and gilt spine title in black and white pictorial jacket; 328 pages; illustrations; map; index; 23 cm Very good(+) in vg(-) jacket now in now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

"Francesca Wilson presents lively and amusing selection of travelers' tales from the most important of these old and rare writings.[...] Russia, then and now, was a land of great contrasts. The travelers describe its gaeity, splendor and color -- as well as Siberia and the horror of arbitrary arrest." --Jacket copy. Contents: pt. 1. 1553-1600. Tudor discoveries of Muscovy. Richard Chancellor. Anthony Jenkinson. Stephen Burrough. Jerome Horsey. Giles Fletcher. Postscript to the Tudor discoverers of Muscovy. pt. 2. 1600-1698. Seventeenth-century explorers of Muscovy. Adam Olearius. Samuel Collins. Jean Struys. pt. 3. 1698-1801. The window into Europe. John Perry. Mrs. Vigor. John Cook. Abbe Chappe d'Auteroche. William Richardson. pt. 4. 1801-1825. The reign of Alexander I. John Carr. Martha and Catherine Wilmot. Robert Ker Porter. Madame de Stael. Robert Lyall. Daniel Wheeler. pt. 5. 1825-1900. The later nineteenth century. Marquis de Custine. J.G. Kohl. August von Haxthausen. An English lady.