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Folio 1: Tsar Ivan to Elizabeth I. Summarises Anglo-Russian relations since 1553....

Catalogue reference: SP 102/49/1

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SP 102/49/1
Date
1570 Oct 24
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Folio 1: Tsar Ivan to Elizabeth I. Summarises Anglo-Russian relations since 1553. Complains at the lack of response to his requests for a political alliance and at English preoccupation with commercial matters. The Queen is not the real ruler of her country. Has revoked English commercial privileges.

Date and Place: 1570 Oct 24, Moscow.

Note
Printed in Yu. Tolstoy, Perviya sorok let snoshenii mezhdu Rossieyu i Anglieyu, 106-110. Contemporary translation: Cotton MS, Nero B.XI, 347.
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The National Archives, Kew
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Language
Russian
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6570542/

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