English Translation

VV - 8 -- in competition with the Muscovy Company. A fierce competition for the Russian market burns between English and Dutch, in which both parts try to blacken each other at the tsar. But already in l6l8 the Dutchman Isaak Massa reports that the tsar would finally see that he had no advantage from the duty-free trading Englishmen, but of the complaining about the circumvention of customs regulations by the Englishmen and that the strangers pushed them out of the domestic trade, the government must note that with the duty free of the English trade with its increase the loss for the Russian state is increasing. On the Russian side, one is only waiting for a favorable opportunity to restrict the English trade. As one l649 of the execution of the English King Charles I. The break with the English merchants is given, Tsar Alexey Mikhaylovich, who would have to renew her privileges at the time of his accession to the throne, rejects a confirmation on the grounds that he does not want to be in contact with king-murderers, and refers them from Moscow. Only in and around Arkhangelsk they are allowed to trade, but they do not have to carry out strict measures against the English, but the Hollan-men prefer them. Even after the restoration of the Stuarts their privileges are not renewed to the English under various reasons, such as trade with Bannware. The real reason is that the English were no longer needed as mediators with the West. There were enough merchants from other countries who were satisfied with a lower profit margin. To this end, the English made themselves through their demanding, self-confident appearance and because they did not consider it necessary, 1) Kulišer, S.l24. 2) Platonov, Uebnik russkoj istorii, 1, Praga 1924, p.194. 3) Kulišer S.126.127; Notovič, p.50; Kašin, p.245-247