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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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.

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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, first published in 1852, contains an English translation of the second 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. Here Herberstein describes the geography and history of the country, with more fascinating details about the people and their customs.

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Sigismund von Herbersteins Russlandbeschreibung wurde in der urspr nglichen lateinischen Fassung im Jahre 1549 ver ffentlicht. Sie beruhte auf den Erfahrungen und Kenntnissen, die Herberstein auf zwei Reisen nach Russland als Gesandter des Kaisers sammeln konnte, wobei er auch alle f r ihn unterwegs zug nglichen russischen bzw. kirchenslawischen Quellen auswertete. Er erg nzte das Werk in den folgenden Jahren noch mehrmals, zuletzt in der Ausgabe von 1556, der im darauffolgenden Jahr noch eine erg nzte und abgewandelte deutsche Fassung folgte. Die Darstellung Herbersteins hat wegen ihres Kenntnisreichtums und ihres Reflexionsniveaus das Russlandbild und die Russlandklischees in Europa und insbesondere in Deutschland f r Jahrhunderte gepr gt. In der vorliegenden kritischen Edition, deren Entstehung einer finanziellen Unterst tzung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft zu verdanken ist, werden die lateinische und die deutsche Ausgabe "letzter Hand" von 1556 und 1557 einander synoptisch gegen berstellt. Erschlossen ist der Band ist durch umfangreiche Personen-, Orts- und V lkernamenregister.