The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume contains the
first part of the account by Sigismund von Herberstein (1486 1566)
of his visits to Russia in 1517 and 1526 as Ambassador of the Holy
Roman Emperor. He published his Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii in
Latin in 1549, and it is the earliest detailed Western description
of the land and people of Russia. It is preceded in this 1851
translation by a set of letter-poems written to his friends by
George Turberville, who visited Russia in 1568.
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