Notes Upon Russia - Sigismund von Herberstein - saddles etc

 Salvete Omnes, 

 

ten years ago I posted some quotes from Sigismund Herberstein's Notes Upon Russia et al. (Major's Translation)  then and now available on Archive.
Today I am going to add more text from that translation and the plates from the Latin original - wiki gallery.

 

Muscovy two-headed eagle is high on the news totem-pole these days, and their deeds are absolutely  not of kind and pleasant type to be proud of, but quite on the contrary  they bring death and destruction, misery and cold and perhaps hunger...

Saddles - of two types

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 and may God and good willed people bring peace to the people of Ukraine

Valete