English Translation

0V 7 To do well of this country shows an episode from the time of the turmoil, when after the extinction of the house of Rurik various candidates fought for the Russian throne. When l6l2 Poland and Sweden occupied large parts of the Russian Empire, on the English side the plan to declare the 'Moscow North and the Volga Way down to the Caspian Sea - the only areas still free from enemies of Russia - to be the English Protectorate. King Jacob I. is ready to send an army to northern Russia, but his emissaries trefien in Moscow already on dén newly elected tsar Mikhail Romanov.'Thus this attempt to extend the English colonial empire to European Russia and to get the land Vog into the hands of India has failed. 1) For this purpose the English use the decline of the state power in Russia of confusion to get out from the Russian north, which was only to press. To Moscow itself, to drive the city of unrest, they guarded themselves. The brilliant results of this exploitation of the unfortunate country are shown by the diviso of the Muscovy Company of 90 percent distributed in the years l6ll and l6l2'. 2) It is not surprising that, after these experiences, the new rulers of the House of Romanov become more economical to the English merchants in granting privileges. An envoy Jacob I. Invites l6l4 to re-authorize trade with Persia by Russia. It offers English mediation for peace with Sweden, but calls for the extension of English privileges in Rupland. But the English company is no longer the only merchant on the White Sea. The Dutch and French have the right to trade over the White Ocean, and individual English enter 1) Platonov, Moskva 2. 2) Platonov, p.63. 3) Notovič, Rossiia i Anglija, S.-Peterburg l9o7, pp.47-48, 4) Solov'ev, Istorija Rossii, 9. Moskva 1859, pp.90 and 88. 5) Kulišer p.125