About the book: 1990 / The publication contains a new complete translation of the works of an English trading company agent and diplomat Jerome Horsey, who lived in Russia in the 70s - 90s of the 16th century. The publication includes three works by Horsey, which provide important, sometimes unique information about the political development of the Russian state during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, Fyodor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov, trade, foreign policy, oprichnina, relations between the state and the church. The published translation provides a range of new interpretations of the text, and the introductory article offers observations on the origins of this valuable and hard-to-find source. The appendix contains documents from an English trading company, as well as the first complete Russian translation of poetic messages from Russia in the 16th century. Englishman J. Turberville. The publication is illustrated, contains comments and indexes. For historians and readers interested in Russian history.