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Massa's Short History of th...
The opening decade of the seventeenth century was, for Russia, one of great turmoil. Political unrest was compounded by natural calamity. On the death of Boris Godunov, the Russian throne was seized by a pretender claiming to be the long-dead son of Ivan the Terrible, allegedly murdered at Boris's instigation in 1591. The false Dmitry made triumphal entry into Moscow in June 1605, only to be assassinated less than a year later by the supporters of Vaily Shnisky, who then seized the throne for himself. Rumours soon spread that Dmitry had in fact escaped, and soon another pretender was advancing on Moscow with his Polish supporters. Eyewitness to many of these events was Isaac Massa who came to Moscow from the Netherlands in 1600 as a merchant apprentice and remained for eight years. His history, written after his return home for the benefit of Maurice, Prince of Orange, lay undiscovered until 1859. This is its first English translation. Massa was an astute and observant youth and his account provides a unique description of the famine in Moscow (1601-3), the appearance of the rulers (whom he had apparently known intimately), the entry of the Pretender, and the subsequent exhibition of his mangled corpse on Red Square after his downfall. Massa's dramatic accounts are complemented by a unique topographical sketch of the city of Moscow provided to Massa by an elderly soldier, one of his many Musovite friends. Three portraits of Massa by Frans Hals, an intimate in his homeland, are also reproduced in this fascinating volume
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monografia Rebiun34723866 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun34723866 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr cnu|||||||| 191126s2019 onc fo d z eng d 1-4875-7852-0 10.3138/9781487578527 doi UPVA 998468543003706 DE-B1597 eng DE-B1597 rda eng e-ur--- onc CA-ON HIS032000 bisacsh 947.084 23 Kort verhaal van begin en oorsprong dezer tegenwoordige oorlogen en troebelen in Moscovië. English Massa's Short History of the Muscovite Wars Toronto University of Toronto Press [2019] Toronto Toronto University of Toronto Press 1982 1 online resource (269 pages) 1 online resource (269 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Heritage Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments Orchard, G.E. -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Short History of the Muscovite Wars Massa, Isaac. -- APPENDIX A. Letter of lsaac Massa to the States-General (1614) -- APPENDIX B. 1 / Letter of Isaac Massa to the States-General, 4 September 1618 186 2 I Report of Isaac Massa to the States-General, 2 March 1620 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index The opening decade of the seventeenth century was, for Russia, one of great turmoil. Political unrest was compounded by natural calamity. On the death of Boris Godunov, the Russian throne was seized by a pretender claiming to be the long-dead son of Ivan the Terrible, allegedly murdered at Boris's instigation in 1591. The false Dmitry made triumphal entry into Moscow in June 1605, only to be assassinated less than a year later by the supporters of Vaily Shnisky, who then seized the throne for himself. Rumours soon spread that Dmitry had in fact escaped, and soon another pretender was advancing on Moscow with his Polish supporters. Eyewitness to many of these events was Isaac Massa who came to Moscow from the Netherlands in 1600 as a merchant apprentice and remained for eight years. His history, written after his return home for the benefit of Maurice, Prince of Orange, lay undiscovered until 1859. This is its first English translation. Massa was an astute and observant youth and his account provides a unique description of the famine in Moscow (1601-3), the appearance of the rulers (whom he had apparently known intimately), the entry of the Pretender, and the subsequent exhibition of his mangled corpse on Red Square after his downfall. Massa's dramatic accounts are complemented by a unique topographical sketch of the city of Moscow provided to Massa by an elderly soldier, one of his many Musovite friends. Three portraits of Massa by Frans Hals, an intimate in his homeland, are also reproduced in this fascinating volume In English Dmitri Ier tsar de Russie 1581?-1606.) HISTORY/ Russia & the Former Soviet Union. Soviet Union- History History. Electronic books Orchard, G. Edward 1-4875-7919-5