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A39792 The history of Russia, or, The government of the Emperour of Muscovia with the manners & fashions of the people of that countrey / by G. Fletcher, sometime fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge and employed in the embassie thither. Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-1611. 1643 (1643) Wing F1330; ESTC R28633 98,943 288

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