English Translation

1. England and Russia up to Peter the Great _(1553=1682) Hardly at some point in history it becomes as clear how much trade-in thinking is decisive for the politics of England as in the first and a half centuries of English-Russian relations. In this period, all measures of English foreign policy towards Russia are ultimately determined by the pursuit of economic advantages and new merit and by the fear of losing old markets and sources of supply. The internal Moscow state, which in the time before Peter the Great only has a little favorable and indirect exit to the sea at the White Sea, has no political significance for the foreign policy of the first British Empire. The English merchant is thus trying all the more to exploit this country, which is regarded as a new colonial territory economically, which he largely succeeds in adapting his methods of exploitation to the conditions laid down here. With the English's ability to adapt, a form of colonial domination that has not yet been known, which skillfully clouded the perceived consciousness of its dependence, is created here. It is of a symbolic importance that, on the day on which England and Russia for the first time enter into direct contact, the name of the country which should later mark the core point of the opposition of the two world powers - India. In search of the northeastern passage to India on 24 August 1553 the English captain Richard 1 Anglijskie puteğestvanniii Moelovekom gosudarstve v 16 veke,Moskva 1937 lands.