English Translation

- 6 9 because it pushes prices and reduces profits in the Russian business. Russian merchants suffer from the exploitative English trading methods. They feel powerless over the rich and skillful English merchants, who proceed L according to plan and with united forces. The Russian merchants, on the other hand, do not get up and hate the English because of their privileged position. In Moscow, the English are insulted 2) on the street. Of course, one should not forget the advantages that also Russia drew from this trade, which repeatedly complains to him of the frauds of the Russian merchants, which start from the principle: "No business carried without". The clever policy of the tsars also prevented Russia from being exploited too much by the English, since, according to Ivan IV, one was no longer dependent on the narrow countries alone, it was avoided to give them the trade (monopoly again It is not so easy from the Russian side to believe to respond to the English complaints. On the contrary, the English are referred to the great privileges which they still enjoy in Russia, not to have suffered losses, but to have done good business because they were free of charge, which is not allowed to the other merchants. It is a fact that the English have opened the trade route across the White Sea. But it does not follow that without them there would not have been any trade relations over this sea. The way itself was already known in the West, and the Dutch, who soon appeared after the English, would have accepted the trade relations on it just as well. How little it is for the English in their Russian trade around Kost-marov, Očerk toorgovli Moskovskago gosudarstva v l6 i 17 stoletijach, S.-Peterburg l862, p. 20-22. 2) Ključevskij, p.239 ) Ljubimenko, p.128-130. 4) Ljubime ko, p.135-136.