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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

dents or notches at every corner and so clasped fast together Betwixt the trees or timber they thrust in mosse whereof they gather plentie in their woods to keep out the aire Every house hath a pair of stairs that lead up into the chambers out of the yard of street after the Scottish manner This building seemeth farre better for their countrey then that of stone and brick as being colder and more dampish then their wooden houses specially of firre that is a drie and warm wood whereof the providence of God hath given them such store as that you may build a fair house for twentie or thirtie rubbels or little more where wood is most scant The greatest inconvenience of their wooden building is the aptnesse for firing which happeneth very oft and in very fearfull sort by reason of the drinesse and fatnesse of the firre that being once fired burneth like a torch and is hardly quenched till all be burnt up CHAP. V. Of the house or stock of the Russe Emperours THe sirname of the imperiall house of Russia is called Beala It took the originall as is supposed from the Kings of Hungarie Which may seem the more probable for that the Hungarian Kings many years ago have born that name as appeareth by Bonfinius and other Stories written of that countrey For about the year 1059. mention is made of one Beala that succeeded his brother Andreas who reduced the Hungarians to the Christian faith from whence they were fallen by Atheisme and Turkish perswasion before The second of that name was called Beala the blind after whom succeeded divers of the same name That their ancestrie came not of the Russe nation Ivan Vasilowich father to this Emperour would many times boast disdaining as should seem to have his progenie derived from the Russe bloud As namely to an English man his goldsmith that had received bullion of him to make certain plate whom the Emperour commanded to look well to his weight For my Russes said he ar● thieves all Whereat the workman looking upon the Emperour began to smile The Emperour being of quick conceit charged him to tell him what he smiled at If your Majestie will pardon me quoth the goldsmith I will tell you Your highnesse said that the Russes were all thieves and forgot in the mean while that your self was a Russe I thought so quoth the Emperour but thou art deceived For I am no Russe my ancestours were Germanes for so they account of the Hungarians to be part of the Germane nation though indeed they come of the Hunnes that invaded those countreys and rested in those parts of Pannonia now called Hungary How they aspired to the Dukedome of Volodemer which was their first degree and ingrafting into Russia and whether it were by conquest or by marriage or by what other means I could not learn any certaintie among them That from these beginnings of a small Dukedome that bare notwithstanding an absolute government with it as at that time did also the other Shires or Provinces of Russia this house of Beala spread it self forth and aspired by degrees to the monarchie of the whole countrey is a thing well known and of very late memorie The chief of that house that advanced the stock and enlarged their dominions were the three last that reigned before this Emperour to wit Juan Basileus and Juan father to the other that reigneth at this time Whereof the first that took unto him the name and title of Emperour was Basileus father to Juan and grandfather to this man For before that time they were contented to be called great dukes of Mosko What hath been done by either of these three and how much they have added to their first estate by conquest or otherwise may be seen in the chapter of their colonies or purchases perforce For the continuance of the race this house of Beala at this present is in like case as are many of the greatest houses of Christendome viz. the whole stock and race concluded in one two or some few of the bloud For besides the Emperour that now is who hath no child neither is like ever to have for ought that may be conjectured by the constitution of his body and the barennesse of his wife after so many years marriage there is but one more viz. a child of six or seven years old in whom resteth all the hope of the succession and the posteritie of that house As for the other brother that was eldest of the three and of the best towardnesse he died of a blow given him by his father upon the head in his furie with his walking staff or as some say of a thrust with the prong of it driven deep into his head That he meant him no such mortall harm when he gave him the blow may appear by his mourning and passion after his sons death which never left him till it brought him to the grave Wherein may be marked the justice of God that punished his delight in shedding of bloud with this murder of his sonne by his own hand and so ended his dayes and tyrannie together with the murdering of himself by extreme grief for this his unhappie and unnaturall fact The Emperours younger brother of six or seven years old as was said before is kept in a remote place from the Mosko under the tuition of his mother her kindred of the house of the Nagaies yet not safe as I have heard from attempts of making away by practice of some that aspire to the succession if this Emperour die without any issue The nurse that tasted before him of certain meat as I have heard died presently That he is naturall sonne to Ivan Vasilowich the Russe people warrant it by the Fathers qualitie that beginneth to appear already in his tender years He is delighted they say to see sheep and other cattel killed and to look on their throats while they are bleeding which commonly children are afraid to behold and to beat geese and hens with a staff till he see them lie dead Besides these of the male kind there is a widow that hath right in the succession sister to the old Emperour and aunt to this man sometime wife to Magnus Duke of Hol●t brother to the king of Denmark by whom she had one daughter This woman since the death of her husband hath been allured again into Russia by some that love the succession better then herself which appeareth by the sequele For herself with her daughter so soon as they were returned into Russia were thrust into a Nunnerie where her daughter died this last year while I was in the countrey of no naturall disease as was supposed The mother remaineth still in the Nunnerie where as I have heard she bewa●●eth herself and curseth the time when she returned into Russia entised with the hope of marriage and other fair promises in the Emperours name Thus it standeth with the imperiall stock of Russia of the house of Beala which