POLSKA A MOSKWA W XVII WIEKU W ŚWIETLE NAZW GEOGRAFICZNYCH (NA PODSTAWIE PAMIĘTNIKÓW)
Poland and Moscow in the 17th Century in the Light of Geographic Names (Based on Diaries)

Summary/Abstract: Many diaries appeared in the 17th century, written by Polish ambassadors, political mediators, soldiers or prisoners staying on the area of the State of Moscow. The excerpted materials for the study were: 1) diaries from the Dmitri period I and II, written by: Stanisława Borsza, Józef Budziło, Abraham Rożniatowski (Roźniatowski), Mikołaj Ścibor z Marchocic Marchocki, Samuel Maskiewicz, Jan Piotr Sapieha, Stanisław Żółkiewski, Stanisław Niemojewski, and 2) the first known Siberian diary by Adam Kamieński Dłużyk. The works include names of places between Starodub and Yakuck. Russian names in the diaries, due to the form of contact, differs greatly from Russian names published in Polish, using West-European literary sources. However, the names functioned only temporarily, and did not influenced on the later forms of Russian names in Polish geographic literature.

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