La ville de Chernovitsky dans les descriptions des voyageurs étrangers des XVIème-XVIIIème siècles
The City of Chernovitsky in the Descriptions of Foreign Travelers XVIth-XVIIIth Centuries

Summary/Abstract: Like the writings of chroniclers, the impressions of foreign travelers have acquired the real voalue of "documentary" of time, inserting significant incidents of political, social, and administrative life. The name of the city of Chernivtsi is mentioned in some of the travelers memoirs and it is connected by the status of those whose duties, interests, or a capricious destiny have brought them in the Northern region of Moldova. The nature of their concerns, their training, and the specificity of their work compartmentalize these travelers into several categories. Among the "travelers - emissaries", left for or returned from diplomatic missions, there are names mentioned such as Lestár Gyulafi, Johann Mayer, Rafael Lesczczynski, Francisc Radzewski, Michály Bay, Gáspár Pápay, Stanislaw Chometowski and Francisc Gosciecki. Added to this cathegory are "travelers - soldiers", observers and combatants. They spent time in Chernivtsi, some waiting to participate in an armed conflict, and some willing to depart from the battlefield: Marcu Sobieski and his great-grand-son - Iacob Sobieski, Erasmus Heinrich von Schneider Weismantel, the Swedish agent in Iaşi, du Briant. Regarding the "travelers by vocation", these enthusiastic scholars were represented by Robert Bargrave, Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich, Balthasar Hacquet and their memoires or diaries provide additional information to the dynamic vision of the city of Chernivtsi.

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