Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation at the Court of Czar Peter the Great (Russia through European Eyes, No. 8)

xx, 304 pp. Two volumes in one. Diary of the Journey into Muscovy of the Right Illustrious and Magnificent Sir Ignatius Christopher, Noble Lord of Guarient and Rall; Knight of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Kingdom of Hungary; Aulic Councillor of War of His Sacred Imperial Majesty; Envoy Extraordinary of the most August and Invincible Emperor of the Czar and Grand Duke of Muscovy, Peter Alexiowicz, in the Year 1698. Decribed by John George Korb (P. T.), Secretary of the Imperial Mission Extraordinary. To which is Added The Return of His Majesty the Czar from the Provinces of Europe to His Own Borders; The Dangerous Rebellion of the Strelitz; The Sentence Passed on Them; The Bloody Execution Thereof; Together with a Compendious and Accurate Description of Muscovite Affairs. With Privilege of His Sacred Imperial Majesty.