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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58415	A relation concerning the particulars of the rebellion lately raised in Muscovy by Stenko Razin its rise, progress, and stop : together with the manner of taking that rebel, the sentence of death passed upon him, and the execution of the same.		1672 (1672)	Wing R774; ESTC R3393	13,376	34

to the Volga together with his Associats and came to the Town Saretza where he perswaded the Inhabitants that the Army of the Great Czar was at hand to put them all to death whereas on the contrary that Army was come to assist them against Stenko and thus the Town was surrendred to him and he having made his entry killed the Commander and all the Citizens that refused to joyn with him He marched out again to meet the Army of the Czar which he defeated taking and putting to death the General with many others He took also the Town Sionejaer where he put to the Sword the Governour all the Officers and many Muscovian soldiers Thence he marched to the City of Astracan seated at the mouth of the River Volga not far from the Caspian Sea walled about and having in compass more than two miles The Suburbs lying round about it are most of them bare and exposed to the incursion of any Enemy Some years since was this Town possessed by the Tartars from whom it was taken by the Czar Jwan Waselowitz An. 1553. About it grows no Grain at all but 't is provided from above It is rich chiefly in Salt and Fish the Caspian Sea furnishing the people living on that shore with store of Salt water of which they make whole mountains of Salt And the Volga about Astracan abounds in Fish above all Rivers There they catch those great Fishes Ossotrina Belouga some of the latter being three fathoms long one of which can hardly be carried by thirty men In Astracan is great Commerce managed by forrain Nations Persians Indians Boucharen Armenians and others it hath for its ordinary Garison Twelve thousand Soldiers Stenko Razin coming to this City sent some of his Cossacks into it to stirre up the Soldiers against the Governor which wrought so well that it was concluded the Town should be deliver'd to him and he received into it which was executed according to his wish Kneas Jwan Semenof Prosorofskie being at Church in the midst of Divine Service was thence pull'd away and made to goe up that high square Steeple which stands in the midst of the Castle of Astracan for a Beacon to direct those that Navigate the Caspian Sea or travel in the vast and little frequented fields called Steep From this Steeple the said Governor was cast down head-long 'T is said that Stenko a little before whisper'd him something in his ear at which he shook his head being doubtless tempted by this Traytor to take his part which the Kneas refusing to doe was forced to make this high and Tragical leap Stenko Razin immediately hereupon committed great slaughter and robbing The Brother of the Governor and many Noble-men and others that would not come in to him he put to the sword as also many Dutch and other Officers and some Holland Mariners which though they run into the Caspian Sea yet are said to have been fetcht back and killed Colonel Thomas Bely and Lieutenant-Colonel Jacob Wanderow and others were put to the Sword being in Arms upon the walls of the Town The Churches Cloisters and the Houses of the richest Citizens were plunder'd the Writings of the Chancery burnt the Czar's Treasure of the Kingdom of Astracan carried away many Merchants strangers being there at that time as Persians Indians Turks Arminians and others were put to death with the rest both the Sons of the Governour Prosorofskie he caused to be hung up by the Legs upon the Walls of the Town and to be taken down again putting one of them after much torture to death and causing the other to be beaten half dead and so carried to the Metropolitan His Lady and Daughters he delivered to the Soldiers his Companions to take them for their Wives or if they pleased to abuse them This taking of Astracan happen'd July 28. 1670. After this Stenko marched to Tzaretsa and thence to Tzarataf which were also deliver'd to him and the Governors of them put to death together with many Noble men and the Treasure carried away The like happen'd to the Town Tzamatof from whence Stenko went to the Town Simbierske which he besieged took by storm and burnt to ashes after he had lost a great part of his Cossacks before the Castle of that place The Governor of it was the Lord Jwan Bochdaenwitz Micoslafsky who with extraordinary courage defended it against this Traytor so that Stenko conquerour of all the places upon the Volga was stop'd here from going further without which he was resolved to have marched to the Royal City Casan not far distant from Simbierske Although Stenko was now hindred to pass further as being beaten and wounded himself insomuch that he was constrained to return to his Astracan-Quarters yet did he much mischief in Russia by his Emissaries who here and there stirr'd up the people to insurrection In Galitz the fire began but was soon quenched About the Town Oestiga some of those Emissaries were caught taken and hanged Every where he promised Liberty and a redemption from the Yoak so he call'd it of the Bojars or Nobles which he said were the oppressors of the Countrey In Mosko it self men began to speak openly in his praise as if he were a person that sought the publick good and the liberty of the people for which cause the Great Czar was necessitated to make a publick example of some to deterr the rest A certain aged man being asked what should be done in case that Stenko should approach to the City of Mosko answered that the people should goe and meet him with Bread and Salt which among the Russians is a token of Love and Friendship For which this man was taken and hanged About the same time there was brought into the same City one of the principal Associats of Stenko that had undertaken to debauch the people up and down in the Countrey from their obedience but he had his due reward for one of his Arms and one of his Legs were cut off and he presently hanged on the Gallows All sorts of imaginable mischievous devices were set on foot by Stenko to ruine the Russian Empire and to seduce the common people Amongst other Artifices he had prepared two ships one of which was lined within round about with Red Velvet and he gave out that in it was the Lord Czarawitz of Glorious memory Alexis Alexewitz the Great Czar's eldest Son who yet in the year 1670. on the 17th of January in the presence of his Father in the Pallace of Mosko departed this life and the next day was buried in the Metropolitan Church of S. Michel Stenko boldly pretended that this Prince was yet alive and with him And to colour this lye the better he kept in the said ship a Youth of about 16 years of age descended of one of the Peregorsky Circassian Princes whom Stenko in his former depredations had taken prisoner which young Prince hath received the Great Czar's pardon because he was compelled to act

such a person and he is still in Mosko at the house of Kneas Jacob Codonietewitz a Circassian And to drive on these devices he spred abroad that this Lord Czarawitz had made an escape from the violent hands of the Bojars and great Lords and taken his refuge to him adding that he Stenko was come by order of the Great Czar to put to death all the Bojars Nobles Senators and other great ones that were too near to his Majesty as Enemies and Traytors of their Countrey By these base practises invented and push't on by Stenko the ignorant people was inflamed to fight furiously and those of them that were taken prisoners underwent death with a wonderful resolution as being possessed with the perswasion of dying for a good cause At Smolensko was hanged a certain person who said that he died upon having seen with Stenko the Prince Czarawitz whereas he saw but a counterfeit one The other ship that Stenko had was lined with Black Velvet and he gave out that there was in it the late Patriarch Nikow who in the year 1666. was upon the Condemnation passed by the Patriarchs of Alexandria and of Antioch by his Majesty the Great Czar deposed from his Dignity and sent to the Monastery of Belooser where he is yet at this day By these Arts Stenko had so far advanced his design that the whole Tract of Land about the Volga and farther up into the Countrey was engaged in this rebellion as far as to the Towns Accateur and Arsa And the number of the Rebels was augmented to two hundred thousand and part of the Czernische Tartars and all the Ruffian Countrey-men living in this Tract and belonging to Muscovian Lords rose up against their Governors killing and hanging them and the fire of this Rebellion gained at length so much ground that it began to burn not above twelve miles from Mosko it self Hereupon the Great Czar raised a great Army and under the conduct of the Noble Kneas Jurge Alexewitz Dolgeroek sent it about the end of September against the Enemy of whom he met a party of Fifteen thousand men who though they fought resolutely and rallied three times yet were at length beaten and put to slight very many remaining dead upon the place and a great number being taken who were immediately executed Six Field pieces fell into the hands of Dolgeroek who encamped under the Town Arsamas where he exercised severe judgment upon these Rebels The place was terrible to behold and had the resemblance of the Suburbs of Hell Round about it were Gallows each of which was loaded with Forty or fifty Men. In another place lay many Beheaded and covered with Blood Here and there stood some impaled whereof not a few lived unto the third day and were heard to speak Within the space of Three Moneths there were by the Hands of Executioners put to death Eleven thousand Men in a legal way upon the hearing of Witnesses Dolgeroek himself remaining upon the place of Judgment sent his Army out by Parties that found out defeated and dispersed Stenko's forces It was of great importance to Russia and a great Mercy of God that the Rebels lay here and there divided as also that they could not agree amongst themselves about the Supream Command For if this power of the Rebels consisting of Two hundred thousand Men had been united and unanimous it would have been difficult for the Forces of the Czar to have resisted and mastered the same The German Officers were highly applauded by His Majesty for having acquitted themselves so well in leading on their Men. The most resolute of the Rebels were those of the small Towns of Lisko and Morasko who had more than once attempted to take by storm the Cloister of Macariof and lost a great number of Men before it taking it at last by the treachery of a Jew and putting to death all the Monks that were found in it and carrying away a rich prey because the people living thereabout had carried their Goods thither for security Morasko held out but those of Lisko rendred themselves in good time and delivered Thirty of the Rebellious Cosacks together with a Nephew of Stenko Razin and so they were pardoned Amongst the Prisoners there was brought to Kneas Jurge Dolgeroek a Nun in Man's habit put over her Monastical dress This Nun had commanded Seven thousand Men and done bravely in this War till she was taken prisoner There appeared not any alteration in her nor any fear of death when the Sentence of being Burnt alive was pronounced against her Amongst the Russians the deserting of a Monastery is esteemed a black and capital crime A little before she died she wished that many more had behaved themselves and fought as couragiously as she had done that then certainly Kneas Jurge would have found his best safety in his heels Being now to die she signed herself after the Russian manner with the cross on her forehead and brest and so laid her self quietly down upon the Pile and was burnt to Ashes There was also brought to Judgment one of Stenko Razin's Confederates and his best Counsellor who had been his right hand His Arms and Legs were cut off and so he was Beheaded and Hanged The Prisoners were commonly put upon the Rack and being examined what they designed in this Rebellion they answered That they intended for Mosco and would have the lives of the Nobles and other great ones Their word was Not'schay that is to say Vnexpected intimating That the Czarawitz Alexis Alexewitz was come as it were from Heaven besides their expectation Thus hath Kneas Jurge Dolgeroek in the space of Three Moneths made an end of this Rebellion in the Quarters about the River Don but in other places the Fire was not yet extinguished when the Czar called him back with his Army Mean time Kneas Constantine Czarbatof was by His Majesty commanded to march towards Taneboef there to subdue the Rebels of those parts which also by the assistance of God was effected So that all the Disquieted and Rebellious Countreys have been by Hanging Burning Beheading Slaughtering besides the Eleven thousand Executed by the Hands of Hangmen and by killing in the Field above an Hundred thousand Men reduced to their former obedience But to return to Stenko Razin after that he had been routed about Simbierske and was retired downwards he chose a freer Air for his abode and remained for a while in the Wilderness of Steep leaving to one of his Confederates call'd Sjorte-Ous that is the Divels Knuckle the command of Astracan Stenko in the mean time wandring up and down until at length by the Captain Cornelius Jacolowitz and those of the Donsky-Cosacks that had remained faithful to the Czar he was secured and brought into Mosco This Cornelius Jacolowitz was God-father to Stenko and always honored by him as if he had been his Father whence he never in the least imagined that that person should contrive any mischief against him But