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Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth examines English relations with Russia, from the strange and wonderfull discoverie of the land in 1553 and Elizabeth Is correspondence with Ivan the Terrible, to the corrupt culture of the Muscovy Company and the political sensitivities surrounding writing on Russia.
Focusing on the life and works of Giles Fletcher, the elder, ambassador to Russia in 1588, this work explores two popular subject areas of Elizabethan history: exploration, travel and trade and late Elizabethan political culture. As well as examining these two subjects as inextricably linked, this book seeks to redress the imbalance in scholarship of the discovery era that has so often looked to the New World of the Americas at the expense of northern sites of exploration and exploitation. By analysing the pervasive languages of commonwealth, corruption and tyranny found in both the Muscovy Company accounts and in Fletchers writings on Russia, this monograph explores how Russia was a useful tool for Elizabethans to think with when they contemplated the nature of contemporary government, the politics of the Elizabethan commonwealth and the changing face of monarchy in the late sixteenth century.
Foregrounding early modern reading practices and censorship, alongside analysis of mercantile and diplomatic documents, this work will appeal to academics and students of Elizabethan political culture and literary studies, as well as those of early modern travel and trade.

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Politics culture and society in early modern Britain General Editors Dr - photo 2
Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain
General Editors
Dr Alexandra Gajda
Professor Anthony Milton
Professor Peter Lake
Dr Jason Peacey
This important series publishes monographs that take a fresh and challenging look at the interactions between politics, culture and society in Britain between 1500 and the mid-eighteenth century. It counteracts the fragmentation of current historiography through encouraging a variety of approaches which attempt to redefine the political, social and cultural worlds, and to explore their interconnection in a flexible and creative fashion. All the volumes in the series question and transcend traditional interdisciplinary boundaries, such as those between political history and literary studies, social history and divinity, urban history and anthropology. They thus contribute to a broader understanding of crucial developments in early modern Britain.
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Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth
The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the elder (15461611)
Felicity Jane Stout
Manchester University Press
Copyright Felicity Jane Stout 2015
The right of Felicity Jane Stout to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Published by Manchester University Press
Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA
www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
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First published 2015
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For my mother and father and my grandparents
This book would not have been possible without the support, encouragement and assistance of many people and institutions. I am very grateful to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC for their generous short-term fellowship and to the Society for Renaissance Studies, UK, who granted me a fellowship to spend time transforming my PhD thesis into a broader, more nuanced study of Giles Fletcher and the Muscovy Company. My PhD supervisor, Professor Mike Braddick, has been unswervingly encouraging and supportive, as well as very human in his perspective and advice. His constructive criticism, both during my PhD and afterwards, has helped me to develop as a historian and his continuing interest and enthusiasm in the project has encouraged me to persevere. Anthony Milton, my second PhD supervisor, has also been unfailingly supportive and has provided much assistance in the practicalities of getting the work published. I am also very grateful to the whole team at Manchester University Press for all of their efforts and to the readers who have provided extensive and insightful comments on earlier versions of this work.
Special thanks go to Gary Rivett, who has always been willing to talk through thorny historical issues. My work bears the marks of his intellectual insight, and our many discussions of early modern history have greatly enhanced my understanding of the subject. He also bravely volunteered to read parts of the work, at various stages along the way, for which I am thankful. The Early Modern Discussion Group at the University of Sheffield has been a great forum, over the years, for trying out new ideas and talking them through, as have the early modern postgraduate conferences at Keele University and the Folger Shakespeare Library seminars. I am grateful to all participants for comments made on ideas presented. The staff in the Manuscripts Room at the British Library have been very helpful, as have my doctoral advisers there, Chris Thomas and Katya Rogatchevskaia. Thanks go to Mary Robertson at the Huntington Library, who helped me find my way around the collection and provided many useful introductions. I would also like to thank Karen Begg at Queens College, Cambridge, Marguerite Ragnow at the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota, Greg Colley at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, Suzan Griffiths at St Catharines College, Cambridge, Bruce Whiteman at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the staff in the Special Collections at Sheffield University Library for their assistance in accessing Fletchers manuscripts and other rare printed works.
Intellectual thanks go to Cathy Shrank and Alan Bryson for their reading of my work, their discussion and pointers in the right directions. I have gained much insight and inspiration from discussions with Daniel Vitkus, Jennifer Richards, Peter Lake, Peter Mancall, Alison Sandman, Rupali Mishra, David Scott Gehring, Eric Platt and Alexandra Gajda. Pastoral thanks go to Linda Kirk for her advice and empathy.
Earlier versions of parts of this work have appeared in The strange and wonderfull discoverie of Russia: Hakluyt and censorship, in Daniel Carey and Claire Jowitt (eds), Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 15363, and The country is too colde, the people beastlie be: Elizabethan representations of Russia, Literature Compass, 10:6 (2013), 48395. I am grateful to Ashgate and Wiley-Blackwell, respectively, for permission to use this material.
The friendship, support and intellectual inspiration of Mary Davies has been invaluable over the last few years. Lars Huening and Frauke Dransfeld have been a brilliant inspiration, full of laughter and fantastic yoga and climbing mates. Stef Rhodes has always let me kip on her couch during many research trips to London, and Rachel Flemming, Sonya Bangle and Karen Cameron have helped to disentangle me from the sixteenth century and bring me back to the twenty-first on various occasions. Many thanks go to Kate Hamilton and Daniela Croll, for being courageous compaeras along the way, and to Dan Balla, for always offering a place of retreat.
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