English Translation

The Englishman Samuel Collins, who spends a number of years at the court of Tsar Alexey Mikhaylovich as a physician, characterizes this attitude of the Englishman, when he thinks that the Englishmen who relied on their old privileges were content to say with the Jews: "We have Abraham to our father, we are Englishmen, give us our right, or we will complain." 2) 2. The first clash under Peter the Great _(_1682-172?_) The turn of the 17th to the 18th century brings a new upswing into Russian English relations. The victorious Dutch competition, together with the internal turmoil in Russia and England and with internal difficulties of the Muscovy Company, had led to the Russian trade always leading the name Russia Company, allowing the English merchant to trade with Russia for the future. To this end, the English succeeds faster than their competitors in switching trade over the White Sea to the Baltic Sea, after Peter the Great has gained a foothold here with the founding of Petersburg and the conquest of Estonia and Livonia. From the Russian side, English trade is promoted in every way. The main reason for this new and definitive victory of the English merchants over all the secondary merchants lies in the fact that only the English have the capital to the Russian merchants, who under the constant capital level of the Russians generously, even a high rate of daring business- 1) Collins, Moskoviiise Denkmalitäten, ed. v.Graf, Leipzig 1929, p.95. 2) Colline, p.63. z) Gerhard, England and the rise of Rupland, Munich 1933, p35 36. 4) Kuližer, p.194; Gerhard, pp.38--39