{"title":"History - Europe - Poland","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-discovery-of-muscovy-gb-4076","title":"The Discovery of Muscovy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Discovery of Muscovy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first relations between England\nand Russia were established in Queen Elizabeths reign, in\nthe manner here set forth, by the expedition undertaken by Sir\nHugh Willoughby and completed by Richard Chanceler or Chancellor,\ncaptain of the Edward Bonaventure. Chanceler went on\nafter Willoughby and the crew of his ship, The Admiral,\nwith the crew of another vessel in the expedition, had been\nparted from Chanceler in a storm in the North Sea, and\nWilloughbys men were all frozen to death. A few men\nbelonging to the other ship were believed to have found their way\nback to England. The story of Chancelers voyage and\nthe following endeavours to open Muscovy to English trade is here\ngiven, as it was told in Hakluyts collection of The\nPrincipal Navigations, Voyages, and Discoveries made by the\nEnglish Nation, the folio published in 1589.\nThe story of our first contact with Russia belongs to the days\nof Ivan the Terrible. The Russians are a Slavonic people,\nwith Finnish elements to the North and Mongolian to the South,\nand old contact with the Swedes, from whom they are supposed to\nhave got their name through the Finnish Ruotsi, a\ncorruption, it is said, of the Swedish\nrothsmennrowers. Legends point also to a\nScandinavian settlement in the ninth century in Northern\nRussia. A chief Igor, whose name is supposed to represent\nthe Scandinavian Ingvar, was trained by a warrior chief Oleg\n(Scandinavian Helgi?), who attacked Byzantium and wrung tribute\nfrom the Greeks. After the death of Oleg, Igor reigned, and\nafter the death of Igor his wife Olga was regent, and was\nbaptised at Byzantium in the year 955. Her son Sviotoslaff\nthe first chief with a Slavonic name, was a conquering chief, who\ndid not become Christian. He was killed in battle, and his\nskull was made into a drinking-cup. His son Vladimir was a\ncruel warrior, who took to Christianity, was baptised in the year\n988, and caused the image of the Slavonic god of Thunder, Perun,\nto be first cudgelled and then thrown into a river.\nVladimir, who first introduced Christianity, divided his\ndominions, leaving Novgorod to his son Yaroslaff, who established\nthe first code of laws. After the death of Yaroslaff, in\nthe year 1054, Russia was broken into petty principalities, until\nthe year 1238, when there was a great invasion of the Mongols,\nwho became a great disturbing power, and remained so until the\nyear 1462, when Ivan III. began the consolidation of a Russian\nempire. He reigned forty-three years, suppressed the\nliberties of many independent regions, annexed states, checked\nthe Mongols, married a Byzantine princess, and so brought Greek\nculture into Moscow. Ivan III. bequeathed his throne to a\nson Basil, who made further addition to the dominions of Muscovy,\nand treated with foreign princes. Herberstein, an\nambassador to him from Germany, has left a description of his\ncourt. Then followed the reign of Basils son Ivan\nIV., Ivan the Terrible, who was, when his father died, a child of\nthree years old. He was at first, from 1533 to 1538, under\nthe care of his mother, Helen Glinska, a Pole. In 1543,\nwhen a boy of thirteen, he broke loose from the tutelage of\nchiefs, and caused one of them who had most worried him to be\ntorn to pieces by dogs. In 1547, at the age of seventeen,\nhe was crowned, and took the title of Czar (Csar).\nHe married a good wife, submitted to the guidance of a good\npriest, Silvester, revised his grandfathers code of laws,\nissued a code for the Church, conquered enemies upon his borders,\nhad desires towards the civilisation of the West, and did nothing\nto earn his name of the Terrible before the year\n1558, five years after the setting out of Willoughby and\nChancellor. His cruelties continued from 1558 until his\ndeath, in 1584.\nH. 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His publishers, in\r\na preface in his behalf, returned his acknowledgments\r\nto the public, and he can but respond to the acknowledgments\r\nthere made. He has made some alterations\r\nin the page relating to the American phil-Hellenists;\r\nand for the rest, he concludes as in the preface to his\r\nfirst edition.\nThe author has been induced by his publishers to\r\nput forth his \"Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey,\r\nRussia, and Poland.\" In point of time they precede\r\nhis tour in Egypt, Arabia Petra, and the Holy Land.\r\nThe countries which form the subject of the following\r\npages perhaps do not, in themselves, possess the same\r\ninterest with those in his first work; but the author has\r\nreason to believe that part of his route, particularly from\r\nthe Black Sea to the Baltic, through the interior of\r\nRussia, and from St. Petersburgh through the interior\r\nof Poland to Warsaw and Cracow, is comparatively\r\nnew to most of his countrymen. As in his first ivwork,\r\nhis object has been to present a picture of the every-day\r\nscenes which occur to the traveller in the countries\r\nreferred to, rather than any detailed description of the\r\ncountries themselves.\n\nNew York, November, 1838.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 37889 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Stephens, John L. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 30, 2011 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stephens, John L.,1805-1852 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43220604485789,"sku":"gb-37889-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/37889.jpg?v=1671555589"},{"product_id":"incidents-of-travel-in-greece-turkey-russia-and-poland-vol-2-of-2-gb-37947","title":"Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePunctuation and hyphenation have been normalised. Variable, archaic or\r\nunusual spelling has been retained. A list of the few corrections made can found at the end of the book.\r\nIn the text, corrections are indicated with red dotted underlining;\r\nhover the mouse over the underlined text to see a Transcriber's Note.\nI had before me a journey of nearly two thousand\r\nmiles, through a country more than half barbarous, and\r\nentirely destitute of all accommodation for travellers.\r\nSouthern Russia was the Scythia of Darius, \"savage\r\nfrom the remotest time.\" \"All the way,\" says an old\r\ntraveller, \"I never came in a house, but lodged in the\r\nwilderness by the river side, and carried provisions by\r\nthe way, for there be small succour in those parts;\" and\r\nwe were advised that a century had made but little\r\nchange in the interior of the empire. There were no\r\npublic conveyances, and we had our choice of three\r\nmodes of travelling; first, by a Jew's wagon, in which\r\nthe traveller stretches out his bed, and is trundled along\r\nlike a bale of goods, always with the same horses, and\r\ntherefore, of necessity, making slow progress; secondly,\r\nthe char de poste, a mere box of wood on four wheels,\r\nwith straw in the bottom; very fast, but to be changed\r\nalways with the posthorses; and, thirdly, posting with\r\nour own carriage. We did not hesitate long in choosing\r\n8the last, and bought a carriage, fortunately a good\r\none, a large calche which an Italian nobleman\r\nhad had\r\nmade for his own use in travelling on the Continent,\r\nand which he now sold, not because he did not want it,\r\nbut because he wanted money more. Next we procured\r\na podoroshni, under which, \"By order of his\r\nMajesty Nicolas the First, autocrat of all the Russias,\r\nfrom Odessa to Moscow and Petersburgh, all the postoffices\r\nwere commanded to give  and , with\r\ntheir servant, four horses with their drivers, at the price\r\nfixed by law.\" Besides this, it was necessary to give\r\nsecurity that we left no debts behind us; and if Mr.\r\nRalli undertakes for all Americans the same obligation\r\nhe did for me, it may happen that his office of consul\r\nwill be no sinecure. Next, and this was no trifling matter,\r\nwe got our passports arranged; the Russian ambassador\r\nat Constantinople, by-the-way, had given me\r\na new passport in Russian, and my companion, that\r\nhe might travel with the advantages of rank and title,\r\ngot himself made \"noble\" by an extra stroke of his\r\nconsul's pen.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 37947 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Stephens, John L. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 9, 2011 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stephens, John L.,1805-1852 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43220620017821,"sku":"gb-37947-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/37947.jpg?v=1671555842"},{"product_id":"roundabout-to-moscow-an-epicurean-journey-gb-65966","title":"Roundabout to Moscow: An Epicurean Journey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoundabout to Moscow: An Epicurean Journey\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf any reader of this book happens to be carrying about a heavy pack\r\nof fine old English prejudices, I beg that he or she will drop it\r\nbefore entering upon the eleven chapters relating to Russia. The best\r\npreparative for crossing the Russian frontier is to throw out of\r\nthe carriage-window every English volume with which the tourist has\r\nbeguiled the way in the vain hope of forming correct impressions of the\r\ncountry ahead.\nEnglishmen can not be trusted to treat Russia fairly. John Bull hates\r\nIvanovitch. With him the Russian is always a Tartar or a Cossack.\r\nThough these terms are not, in fact, opprobrioussince the Tartar of\r\nto-day is the model business man of Russia, industrious, faithful,\r\nhighly respected, and the Cossack preserves none of his ancient traits\r\nbut an excessive fondness for horses, a martial spirit, and fervent\r\npatriotismthey are slurring words in the English sense.\nAmericans have no cause of quarrel with Russians. There is no Turkey on\r\nthis continent which we feel bound to save from the jaws of the Russian\r\nbear in order to devour her ourselves. 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An indelible reminder that words matter, and that perhaps the most patriotic thing one can do is read.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor nearly five decades after the Second World War, the Iron Curtain divided Europe, forming the longest and most heavily guarded border on earth. No physical combat would take place along this frontier: the risk of nuclear annihilation was too high for that. Instead, the war was fought psychologically. It was a battle for hearts, minds, and intellects. Few understood this more clearly than George Minden, head of a covert intelligence operation known as the \"CIA book program,\" which aimed to undermine Soviet censorship and inspire revolt by offering different visions of thought and culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom its Manhattan headquarters, Minden's \"book club\" secretly sent ten million banned titles into the East. Volumes were smuggled aboard trucks and yachts, dropped from balloons, hidden aboard trains, and stowed in travelers' luggage. Nowhere were the books welcomed more warmly than in Poland, where they would circulate covertly among circles of like-minded readers, quietly making the case against Soviet communism. Such was the demand for Minden's texts that dissidents began to reproduce them in the underground. By the late 1980s, illicit literature was so pervasive in Poland that censorship broke down: the Iron Curtain soon followed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharlie English narrates this tale of Cold War spycraft, smuggling, and secret printing operations for the first time, highlighting the work of a handful of extraordinary people who fought for intellectual freedom--people like Miroslaw Chojecki, who suffered beatings, imprisonment, and exile in pursuit of his clandestine mission. \u003ci\u003eThe CIA Book Club \u003c\/i\u003eis a story about the power of the printed word as a means of resistance and liberation. Books, it shows, can set you free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charlie English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593447901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2025 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2025 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharlie English\u003c\/b\u003e is a former journalist for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian, \u003c\/i\u003ewhere he held several positions including arts editor and head of international news. 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