History of Russia Koshykhina 1840

The posted book is a significant monument of Russian history of the 17th century. Grigory Karpovich Koshikhin (circa 1630 - November 1667) at the end of the 1650s was a scribe, and then clerk of the ambassadorial order in Moscow. In 1658-61 consisted in the embassy sent for the conclusion of peace agreements with Sweden. The Russian government was left quite satisfied with the results of its activities, but upon arrival in Moscow, Kotoshikhin found out that due to false slander of his father, his house was taken from him in Moscow, and his wife and father suffered persecution. Having briefly converged with the Swedish envoy in Moscow, Koshihin began to supply him with valuable information, and in August 1664 he fled to Poland and called himself Ivan Alexander Selitsky. At the beginning of 1666, he found himself in the Swedish service, where, by order of the Swedish government, he finished writing his work about Russia. The information in it is fairly accurate. At the end of 1667, he was charged with the murder of the owner of the house in which he lived, and executed. Koshihin’s work in Russian was published three times, in 1840, 1859 and 1884. We present the very first edition of 1840 in the Protohistory library, which is published in electronic form for the first time with the addition of "About the old Russian utensils" of 1896. These works will allow you to look differently not only at the features of that time, but also at the outfit of Russian soldiers.