Kotoshikhin, Grigory Karpovich

Kotoshikhin, Grigory Karpovich

"On Russia in the Reign of Alexei Mikhailovich."

St. Petersburg. Printing House of the Main Administration of Appanages, Mokhovaya, 40, 1906.

Grigory Karpovich Kotoshikhin (c. 1630–1667) — a clerk of the Ambassadorial Prikaz, who fled in 1664 to Lithuania and then to Sweden. While in Swedish service, commissioned by the government, he wrote a work known as "On Russia in the Reign of Alexei Mikhailovich." This is an invaluable historical source, describing in detail the state structure, administration, daily life, customs and manners of the Muscovite state in the mid-17th century. The text was first discovered and published in 1840.

This edition constitutes a classic publication of a monument of Russian historical thought and is in demand among both historians and collectors.