@p @11112011 @FreedoingVlad @Grandtheftautism @Senator_Armstrong @animeirl @dicey @icedquinn Kind sirs, after double checking the previous post, I must inform you of two mistakes. (They’re relatively minor in comparison to the subject, and you may skip reading here. But don’t say later, that you didn’t know.)

First is related to the case of Hans Schlitte: he himself wasn’t executed, a deeper source referring to Monumenta Livoniæ a antiquæ, Bd. 5 mentions an artisan also named Hans, who, three years after their party was left to their own devices after Schlitte was jailed, made an attempt to cross Livonia with some friends, but they were caught at the border in Schwaneberg. He managed to escape from the jail, but the note about him was sent to the border town of Marienburg, where he was captured. He was sent back to Schwaneberg, where they cut his head off.

Schlitte left reichstag in 1548, with letters from Karl V, but Livonians (then part of HRE) caught them and portrayed the situation to the emperor as if Schlitte was leading mercenaries (and not artisans) from the empire to Russia. There were some chemists and weaponry masters too, but most in that mottle bunch were ordinary people like carpenters, stone workers, glass and paper makers, doctors, translators, theologists, one gardener, one map maker, one smith, one book binder and such. The Livonians feared, that those people will empower Russia and this will eventually hurt Livonia, then part of Holy Roman Empire. These concerns, attached to the news about “mercs” were sent to Karl V, who in 1549 ordered to never let any people pass to Muscovy. The old letters and passage documents given to Schlitte meant little to Livonians even earlier, and now their power was nullified.


The second mistake is my blunder, the case with Antony Marsh occurred during the reign of tzar Feodor, I’ve read too much into the text, and assumed Godunov was the ruler, assuming that he spoke on such an important matter, but he was simply a very powerful person (being the brother to wife of the tzar). Godunov was among those who gave money to Marsh, so it’s understandable, why he would insist on taking this matter closely.

That’s why I hate retelling stuff – when you cite you don’t have to deal with this kind of mistakes.
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