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• Fundamental Electronic Library: Russian Literature and Folklore 11th-17th Century

Collection of Russian Literature.

(Russian)

• Ossetian-Russian Relations

Related documents.

(8th century - 1831; Russian facsimiles)

• Libereya - Old Russian Literature

A collection of influential primary and legendary documents.

(11th-17th centuries; Russian transcriptions)

• Kabardino-Russian Relations

Related documents.

(1552-1689; Russian transcriptions)

• Account of Coronation of Feodor I, by Jerome Horsey

(10 June 1584; Russian translation)

• Treaties on the second and third embassies from the British queen, represented by Jerome Horsey, to the king of Russia

(1585, 1589; Russian translation)

• Chechen-Russian Relations

Related documents.

(August 1586 - 28 May 1698; Russian transcriptions)

• Georgian-Russian Relations

Related documents from Verevkina, Chariton, Theodosia, Nicephorus, and Gegeneva Volkonskogo embassies.

(1587 - 22 January 1640; Russian transcriptions)

• Letter Approving the Moscow Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople

Accounts of the approval of the Jeremias II, the Orthodox patriarch.

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(May 1590; Russian facsimile, transcription)

• Case about the death of Tsarevitch Dmitriy

Interrogation of the witnesses in the court. Dmitriy was Ivan the Terrible's youngest son. Finally it was determined that the cause of death was an epileptic episode.

(May to June 1591; image, modern Russian translation)

• Treaty of Teusina

"Eternal Peace" between Russia and Sweden.

(May 18, 1595; Swedish, Finnish)

• Order about the criminal investigation for 5 years for fugitive peasants

(1597; Russian translation)

• Report of visit to Moscow to Roman Emperor

(1598; Russian transcription)

• Certificate of Tsar Boris Godunov to Emperor Rudolph II

(January 1599; Russian transcription)

• Fragments of Marina Mnishek’s journal

Witness account of the rescue of Tsarevitch Dmitriy.

(Early 17th century; Russian translation)

• Documents of the 17th century

Letters, journals, and records of wars and rebellions.

(17th century; Russian translation)

• Documents of the 17th century

Documents discuss Time of Troubles, new Romanov dynasty, relations with Poland, Turkey, and Ukraine, as well as wars and rebellions.

(17th century; Russian translation)

• Adjudant: Military History and Memoirs

Adjudant highlights Russian military history with documents and first-hand accounts.

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Includes:

Materials such as eyewitness accounts from wars, memoirs, and military rule books.

Library with memoirs.

(17th-20th century; Russian transcriptions)

• Muscovy

Documents discuss politics and policy.

(17th century; English translations)

• History of Kolskiy Peninsula 17th century

Documents about relations between lands of Kolskiy Peninsula and Russia.

(17th century; Russian maps, images, facsimiles)

• Correspondence between Polish and Moscow Government

Documents concerning relations between Polish and Moscow during the Time of Troubles.

(Early 17th century; commentaries, modern Russian translation)

• Letter from Tsar Boris Godunov to Emperor Rudolf II

(November 1604; Russian transcription)

• Rudolf II's Response to Boris Godunov

(16 June 1605; Russian transcription)

• Last days of the reign of False Dmitriy I

(May 1606; Russian translation)

• Vision to a certain spiritual man

Suggestions for the Moscow Kingdom to overcome the Times of Trouble.

(1606; commentaries, Russian translation)

• Story about Miraculous vision in Nizhniy Novgorod

Suggestions for rescuing Moscow Kingdom from enemy.

(1611; commentaries, modern Russian translation)

• “Prigovor” of the First Home Guard

Discusses organization and administration of new government as well as military rules.

(30 June 1611; modern Russian commentaries and translation)

• Letter by the Dvina Provincial Government Regarding Eating contests

Letter is addressed to governor of Dvina and Arkhangelsk regino, Nikita Mikhailovich Pushkin, and deacon Putilov Grigoriev.

Sheds light on representative institutions of the Russian state at the time.

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(31 December 1612; Russian transcription)

• Armenian-Russian Relations

Related documents.

(26 March 1626 - December 1697; Russian transcriptions)

• Salty Revolt in Moscow

(1648; modern Russian transcription)

• Sobornoe Ulozhenie - Law Code of the Assembly of the Land

Grand Prince Aleksei Mikhailovich took council with the Patriarch of Russia and others to discuss laws in the canons and of the Byzantine emperors in the Procheiros Nomos.

(1649; English translation)

• Russian-Sweden wars and truce in the 17th century

Documents on truce, territorial boundaries, and agreements between Russia and Sweden.

(17th century; commentaries, modern Russian translation)

• Forms of the oath of the Russian officials to the Tsar

(1653; modern Russian translation)

• Articles of Bohdan Khmelnytsky

Also known as the "March Article" and "Articles of Zaporizhia Army."

Defined Cossack estate rights and defined salaries for clergy and citizens.

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(21 March 1654; Russian transcription)

• Bereznevi Articles

Agreements between the Cossacks and the Moscow Tsar, focusing on the military and political responsibilities of both.

(21 March 1654; Russian translation)

• Selections from "The Things of Patriarch Nikon"

Nikon was the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. His policies eventually led to a split in the Russian Orthodox Church. He was eventually banished by the Greek Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Ferapontov Belozersky Monastery.

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(1659-1666; Russian transcription)

• Kotoshikhin about Tsar court

Discusses nobility in the court ranks and responsibilities.

(1666; modern Russian translation)

• Attaining tsarevitch Aleksey Alekseyevich majority and announcing him as successor

(1 September 1667; commentaries, modern Russian translation)

• The Soloveckij Uprising

Facsimile of an Illuminated Old-Russian Manuscript

(ca 1668; Old-Russian facsimile; German and English interface)

• “Prelestniye Gramoty” of Stepan Razin

Stepan Razin calls for various regions to support his revolt against the nobilities' unjust treatment of low socioeconomic classes.

(1670; modern Russian translation)

• Campaign of Stepan Razin in Astrahan

Witness of Dutch traveler Jan Streis regarding Stepan Razin.

(17th century; commentaries, Russian translation)

• Interrogation of captive Stepan Razin’s partisans

(1670-1671; modern Russian translation)

• The Death Sentence of Stepan Razin

Stepan Razin, also known as Stenka Razin, was a Cossack leader who led an uprising in Southern Russia against tsarist bureaucracy and nobility.

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(1671; Russian transcription)

• Samuel Collins on the Court of Aleksei Mikhailovich

Samuel Collins was an English ...personal physician of the Russian Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich. He spent nine years in Moscow before his death. In 1671 a volume entitled "On the Present State of Russia" was compiled by a publisher from a series of letters written by Collins to Robert Boyle.

(1671; English transcription)

• Jean Chardin's account of travels through Transcaucasia

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

(1672-1678; Russian transcription)

• Complete Collection of the Laws of the Russian Empire: Volume 2

(1676-1682; Russian transcription)

• Order of Boyar Ranks

Conditions and assignments of boyar rankings.

(1682; modern Russian translation)

• Double Throne of Ivan Alekseyevich and Peter Alekseyevich

(1682-1684; image)

• Hat of Peter Alekseyevich

(1680s; image)

• Russia battles with Turkey

Words of an Austrian diplomat.

(1684; Russian transcription)

• "Eternal Peace"

Document confirming Andrusovo Truce of 1667, which defined territory for Russia and Poland-Lithuania. The Truce also included agreement for common defense against the Ottoman Empire.

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(26 April 1686; Russian facsimile and transcription)

• Nerchinskiy Agreement

Agreement between Moscow Kingdom and China about borders, trade and peace.

(1689; Russian translation)

• Russian ratification treaties

(11 December 1689-29 June 1699)

• Yevdokiya Lapukhina

Life of Peter I's first wife.

(1689-1731; images, Russian fragments from documents and transcription)

• Peter I

Includes quotes from orders and letter of Peter I.

(Images, Russian facsimiles)

• Changes in the Church

Changes Peter made in the church.

(1690-1725; Russian quotes from documents)

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EuroDocs > History of Russia: Primary Documents > 1584-1696

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EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Librarian,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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With special thanks to Natalya Georgiyeva for her help with this webpage.