Adam Olearius (1603-1671). Aussführliche Beschreibung der kundbaren Reyse nach Muscow und Persien. Schlesswig, gedruckt in der Fürstl. Druckerey, durch Johan Holwein, im Jahr 1663. Ellis Omnia E30

Adam Olearius (1603-1671). Aussführliche Beschreibung der kundbaren Reyse nach Muscow und Persien. Schlesswig, gedruckt in der Fürstl. Druckerey, durch Johan Holwein, im Jahr 1663. Ellis Omnia E30

Coming in 1703 to a Swamp Near You... In the 10th century the marshes where Sankt Pieter Burkh would begin to be built almost 800 years later were a part of Novgorod land, originally the area around Lake Il'men, home to the Il'men Slavs. The town of Novgorod, seen here, was the largest settlement. In 1240 Alexandr Nevsky quashed the Swedish army very near the location of the future Russian capital. Between the 12th and 15th centuries the term Novgorod referred to the federal republic, the only true republic in all of Russian history. A German scholar born in Saxony, Olearius was mathematician and librarian for the Duke of Holstein, knew both Russian and Arabic (where is he when we really need him?) and traveled to Russia as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein embassy. Like Sigmund Herberstein's earlier accounts, Olearius's contain maps, drawings, town views, and are rich in descriptions of the geography, history, and lives of the people in the settlements he visited.

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