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2018
Overview
NEITHER THE HUNGARIAN Jacob Piso nor the Dutchman Albert Campense had ever been to Muscovy. This was hardly odd in the first half of the sixteenth century, for at that time Europeans were only beginning to travel to Russia. What was somewhat unusual about Piso and Campense is that both wrote brief descriptions of Muscovy, in fact two of the first accounts of the northern country ever put to paper by Europeans. Their fascination with Russia was occupationally inspired: both Piso and Campense were in the service of the papacy, and the bishop of Rome had taken a keen interest
