The Project of the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between Russia and the Holy Roman Empire: The Cracow roll-message from 1576 Cover Image

Проект раздела Речи Посполитой между Россией и Священной Римской империей: Краковский столбец начала 1576 года
The Project of the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between Russia and the Holy Roman Empire: The Cracow roll-message from 1576

Author(s): K. J. Erusalimsky, Konstantin Yuryevich Erusalimskiy, Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Kozlyakov, Iskra Schwarcz, Aleksei Bachinskii
Subject(s): History, Political history, 16th Century, Geopolitics
Published by: Издательство Исторического факультета СПбГУ
Keywords: Ivan the Terrible; Maximilian II Habsburg; Russian diplomacy; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Summary/Abstract: The imperial embassy of Johann Kobentzl von Prosseg and Daniel Prinz von Buchau discussed with tsar Ivan IV and his representatives in December 1575 – January 1576 the consequences of Maximilian II Habsburg’s election on the thrones of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Crown. There is the roll-message in Cracow Chartorysky Library (Perg. 2822/IX), which has been sent to the emperor with their legates. It became known among contemporaries in Poland and Lithuania. The authors of the article strive to analyze the manuscript tradition of the roll. The differences between its Moscow ambassadorial, Lithuanian Russian, Polish and Latin copies show that the roll took part in the political struggle of the period.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2 (26)
  • Page Range: 135-166
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Russian