title: The Ambassador’s Report of Zakharia Meyer on the Trip to Moscow
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metadata.value: Bessudnova, Marina B.
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metadata.value: 2022-03-09T11:37:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-09T11:37:55Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: Bessudnova M. B. The Ambassador’s Report of Zakharia Meyer on the Trip to Moscow. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 4, рp. 1349–1378.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.418
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35541
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metadata.value: The article contains a translation and an original text of the report of Ratmann of Lübeck,
  Zhachariah Meyer, about his diplomatic trips to Moscow in 1586–1587. The document is
  stored in the Archives of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (Archiv der Hansestadt Lübeck) and
  has not been published so far. On behalf of a magistrate of Lübeck Meyer visited the court of
  Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich in Novgorod and Pskov. In the context of the transformation of the
  Hanseatic League, which took place in the second half of the 16th century, in order to retain
  the status of its head, Lübeck needed to take a leading position in the supply of Russian export
  products to the Western European market. To achieve this goal, it was necessary to reject
  commercial and diplomatic mediation of the Hanseatic cities of Livonia, which during the
  Livonian War fell under foreign rule, and carry out its own program set out in the pamphlet
  “Kürtzer Bericht…” of 1571. Meyer’s report, which includes the German text of the letters
  patent from Fyodor Ioannovich to Lübeck in 1586, the translations of the tsar`s letters to the
  governors of Novgorod and Pskov, and Meyer`s petitions, testifies to the successful start of
  this program. The report, among other things, contains information about situations in the
  trading courtyards of Novgorod and Pskov, in particular, about their relations with the city
  administration. Their lack of self-government and administrative dependence on the Russian
  authorities distinguished the Lübeck courtyards from the Hanseatic offices in their heyday.
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metadata.value: The article was prepared in the framework of the project 19-18-00183 supported by the Russian Science
  Foundation “Economic, political and socio-cultural communications of Russia and the Baltic Area in
  the 15th–17th centuries based on archival collections of Tallinn, Lübeck, Berlin and St. Petersburg”.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hanse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lubek
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Zakharia Meyer
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: trade yards
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Novgorod
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pskov
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Ambassador’s Report of Zakharia Meyer on the Trip to Moscow
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metadata.value: Article
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