Zeventiende-eeuwse Nederlandse couranten vertaald voor de tsaar

The acquisition of foreign news in 17th-century Russia differed in important respects from that in Western Europe. Whereas newspapers began to be printed in the West early in the 17th century, there were no printed newspapers in Russia until the beginning of the 18th century. However, starting early in the 17th century, foreign merchants and special agents brought printed newspapers and manuscript newsletters to Moscow, where the professional translators of the Muscovite Diplomatic Chancery (Posol’skij prikaz) translated them into Russian. These translations and summaries (known as kuranty, fr... Mehr ...