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Muscovyb> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Muscovyb> drew people and wealth to the northeastern part of Kievan Rus'; established trade links to the Baltic Sea, the White Sea, and the Caspian Sea and to Siberia; and created a highly centralized and autocratic political system.
More important to Moscow's development in what became the state of Muscovyb>, however, was its rule by a series of princes who were ambitious, determined, and lucky.
Muscovyb> gained full sovereignty over significant part of the ethnically Russian lands about 1480 when the Tatars' Golden Horde overlordship ended officially (see Great standing on the Ugra river), and by the beginning of the 16th century virtually all those lands were united.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscovite_Russia (3833 words)



MSN Encarta - Henry Hudson

Nothing is known of Hudson's life before 1607, the year in which he undertook his first expedition for the English Muscovyb> Company.
During the following year he sailed in the same ship under the auspices of the same company, and again attempted unsuccessfully to find a passage, this time by way of the islands of Novaya Zemlya in the Barents Sea.
In that company's employ he sailed from the Dutch island of Texel, on his third voyage in 1609, in the Half Moon, a vessel of about 73 metric tons, with a mixed Dutch and English crew of 18 or 20 men.

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761561666/Hudson_Henry.html (416 words)



Manitoba Pageant: Manitoba's First Company

This company, which was later known as the Muscovyb> Company, established such a profitable trade with Russia and the Scandinavian countries that other companies, intrigued by its success, adopted its methods.
In the Charter, the grant to the Hudson's Bay Company was cited as a plantation or colony, the words being extractions from the charter of the Virginia Company.
When, however, the Hudson's Bay Company was forced to awaken from "its comfortable sleep on the shores of Bay," it woke with a vengeance, struck quickly inland, absorbed its great rival, the North West Company, and forged in the new coalition a stronger and greater unit.

http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/16/firstcompany.shtml (3477 words)



Anthony Jenkinson's Explorations on the Land Route to China

To the which our caravan basha answered, that he had no Christians in his company, nor other strangers, but two Turks which were of their law, and although he had, he would rather die then deliver them, and that we were not afraid of his threatenings, and that should he know when day appeared.
There were in my company, and committed to my charge, two ambassadors, the one from the king of Boghar, the other from the king of Balgh, and were sent unto the Emperor of Russia.
The political situation in Russia was particularly accommodating to this mission, because the tsar had recently extended the boundaries of Russia to the east (at the expense of the Tartar khanates) as far as the north shore of the Caspian Sea.

http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/jenkinson/bukhara.html (4919 words)



Henry Hudson's Second Voyage, 1608: The Northeast Passage

The founding governor of the Muscovyb> Company, Sebastian Cabot, had also believed in the existence of this passage and had organized several unsuccessful expeditions to search for it, before is death in 1577.
Hudson was employed by the Russia Company (also called the Muscovyb> Company - the "merchants who trade with the Muscovites") to explore the coast of Siberia much further east than the area previously reached by Stephen Borough in 1556.
The Company directors were disappointed in Hudson's efforts and probably had lost confidence in Hudson's abilities.

http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/hudson_02.htm (1783 words)



Iranica.com - GREAT BRITAIN

The Muscovyb> Company sent five further missions to Persia; but despite securing some facilities, in 1581 they finally abandoned their attempts to develop trade there.
Company "factories," or trading posts, were now established at Ja@sk, Shiraz, Isfahan, and Kerma@n.
Although the East India Company lost their trading monopoly in the Persian Gulf in 1811, it was some years before other British merchants established themselves there or elsewhere in Persia.

http://www.iranica.com/articles/v11f2/v11f2086b.html (5362 words)



Muscovyb> Company -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!

After the death of Henry VII in 1509, England lost interest in discovery and did not resume it until 1553 and the formation of the Muscovyb> Company, which tried to find a Northeast Passage to Asia, discovered the...
The company was formed in 1555 by the navigator and explorer Sebastian Cabot and various London merchants and was granted a monopoly of Anglo-Russian trade.
About 1630 the company ceased to function on a joint-stock basis and became a regulated company, in which, subject to various rules, merchants traded on their own account.

http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9054408 (971 words)



Muscovyb> Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Muscovyb> Company had a monopoly on trade between England and Muscovyb> until 1698 and it survived until the Russian Revolution of 1917.
In 1567, when Muscovyb> was fairing badly in the Livonian War, Jenkinson was asked by Tsar Ivan to sound out Queen Elizabeth I of England as a marriage prospect, providing possible refuge to the tsar if he was forced to flee the country.
The first expedition of the Company of Merchant Adventurers was led by Willoughby, who seems to have been chosen for his leadership skills and unfortunately had no prior nautical or navigational experience.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscovy_Company (1003 words)



HENRY HUDSON - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY HUDSON

Next year Hudson was again sent by the Muscovyb> Company to open a passage to China, this time by the north-east route between Spitzbergen and Novaya Zemlya, which had been attempted by his predecessors and especially by the Dutch navigator William Barents.
Hudsons confidence in the existence of a North-West Passage had not been diminished by his three failures, and a new company was formed to support him in a fourth attempt, the principal promoters being Sir Thomas Smith (or Smythe), Sir Dudley Digges and John (afterwards Sir John) Wolstenholme.
With a mixed crew of eighteen or twenty men he left the Texel in the Half-Moon on the 6th of April, and by the 5th of May was in the Barents Sea, and soon afterwards among the ice near Novaya Zemlya, where he had been the year before.

http://20.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HU/HUDSON_HENRY.htm (950 words)



Hudsons in England (1500 - 1635)

As part of the Muscovyb> Company, Henry III failed in his attempts to find a passage to China in 1607 and 1608.
It appears that Henry II was a member of the Muscovyb> Company (Association of Merchant Adventurers) founded by the explorer Sebastion Cabot in 1553.
The Muscovyb> Company sought a northern route to China and India and ended up exploring the Northern North American continent.

http://pages.prodigy.net/vanhudson/hudson4.htm (524 words)



Henry Hudson Explorer of the Hudson River -- By The Half Moon Press

Hudson was certainly an experienced seaman, commissioned by the Muscovyb> Company in 1607 to find a quick way from England to the "islands of spicery." He failed in that attempt, and again in 1608 -- each time foiled by ice floes as he attempted to find a fast northerly passage to "the east."
enry Hudson was an Englishman, possibly the grandson of a London alderman who helped found a trading organization, the Muscovyb> Company.
In 1609 the Dutch East India Company, which had a monopoly on trade with the Orient and which wanted to shorten the lengthy and expensive voyage around the Cape of Good Hope, hired Hudson to renew the attempt on its behalf.

http://www.hudsonriver.com/halfmoonpress/stories/hudson.htm (856 words)



The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto

The Muscovyb> Company had not only funded at least two of Henry Hudson's previous sea voyages; going back through its history of half a century, it contained several Hudsons on its rolls.
The so-called Muscovyb> trade that ensued--in which the English found a ready market for their wool, and imported hemp, sperm oil, and furs from the realm of Ivan the Terrible--was so profitable that the search for a northern route to Asia was largely abandoned.
The medieval look of the London of 1608 belied the fact that England's rise to global empire was under way, and one of the forces behind that rise lay through these doors.

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385503495&view=excerpt (2168 words)



IMA Hero: Reading Program Henry Hudson

This ship was supplied to him by the Muscovyb> Company.
The group later became known as the Muscovyb> Company; it was named for the Russian city, Moscow.
The Muscovyb> Company did not want to sponsor Hudson on another voyage because he was unable to find a trade route on his first two voyages.

http://www.imahero.com/readingprogram/explhudson.html (2987 words)



Civilization.ca - Voyages of Martin Frobisher - Christopher Hall

he navigational experience and skills Christopher Hall had acquired in service to the Muscovyb> Company made him a major asset to the Frobisher expeditions.
After he was free of Frobisher, Hall went back to work on Muscovyb> Company ships, as well as sailing with Edward Fenton to Africa and South America.
Hall, a professional, probably had little respect for Frobisher and later joined others in accusing him of embezzling funds intended to provision the expeditions.

http://www.civilization.ca/hist/frobisher/frsub07e.html (314 words)



Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia

But certainly by the end of the seventeenth century, the Company is just running a very, very successful private enterprise, which has fixed assets in the form of houses and warehouses, and a couple of fortifications in Asia.
The Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies was founded by a charter from Queen Elizabeth I on 31 December 1600, following more than a year of political negotiations and finance raising.
Spices and other Asian goods were coming up through the Red Sea, carried by Arab and Persian traders into the Western world to be re-distributed.

http://www.fathom.com/course/21701760/session1.html (2128 words)



Henry Hudson biography

He is first mentioned as the commander of the ship Hopeful, sent in May, 1607, by the Muscovyb> Company in quest Of a north-east passage to the Spice Islands.
In April of the year following he sailed again under the auspices of the Muscovyb> Company and reached Nova Zembla, attempting in vain to force a passage through the Vaigatch or Kara Strait, in the expectation of finding himself within easy reach of the Pacific.
Late in June, 1611, a part of the crew mutinied, seized and bound Hudson, his son, and seven others of the ship's company, and, putting them into the small boat, set them adrift.

http://www.dromo.info/hudsonbio.htm (370 words)



Civilization.ca - Voyages of Martin Frobisher - Michael Lok

In 1571 he obtained the prestigious position of London agent of the Muscovyb> Company, supervising trade with Russia.
Once the ore was proven worthless, the failure to have obtained incorporation for the Company of Cathay left Lok, as treasurer of the "company", personally exposed to legal actions for the debts incurred by the enterprise.
His uncompromising belief in the potential of the Arctic venture led him to additional injudiciously large investments.

http://www.warmuseum.ca/hist/frobisher/frsub04e.html (587 words)



FINAL WARNING

They were closely related to the Levant Company, and the Anglo-Muscovyb> Company, and spawned the London Company, which was chartered in 1606 to establish the Virginia Plantation on a communistic basis, and the Plymouth Colony in 1621.
The British East India Company was a British commercial and political organization established in India in the late 1600's, which was known as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London.
Indian policy was influenced by the company from 1757 to 1773, when their power was broken by the 1773 Regulatory Act, and Pitt's India Act of 1784, finally ending their monopoly in 1813.

http://www.govsux.com/NWO4.htm (10792 words)



The Winter's Tale: Spring Always Comes after Winter

Tsar” (Harold Lamb, The March of Muscovyb>: Ivan the Terrible and the Growth of the Russian Empire [Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1948], 130) or emperor, and he was certainly well known to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Anthony Jenkinson, searching for trade routes for the Muscovyb> Company and reporting also to Ivan himself, drew the “First coherent map of Russia” in 1562 (Lamb, 182).
In 1612, “John Merrick, chief agent for the Muscovyb> Company.

http://www.bard.org/Education/Shakespeare/winterspring.html (1809 words)



Henry Hudson

Stephen Hudson, a member of the East India company, which was originally promoted by some of the foremost members of the Muscovyb> company, is mentioned in the "Court Minutes" of the former corporation, under date of 13 December, 1602, as having paid to Mr.
The Muscovyb> company having temporarily abandoned the quest, and turned its attention to the whale fisheries, which Hudson had suggested, he was at liberty, and, haying conferred in person with the Amsterdam chamber, accepted the mission.
Christopher Hudson was agent of the company in Russia as early as 1559-'60, took a deep interest in the voyage of discovery to America of Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583, and advised the company to assist in raising the requisite funds.

http://www.famousamericans.net/henryhudson (1294 words)



Search Results for "Muscovyb>"

Muscovyb> Company, (mus´kve) (KEY) or Russia Company, first major English joint-stock trading company.
...Strictly speaking means the Czar of Muscovyb>; the King of Muscovyb> was called the White King from the white robes which he wore.
...The Palace at Warsaw Enter on one side ASTOLFO, Duke of Muscovyb>, with his train: and, on the other, the PRINCESS ESTRELLA, with hers.

http://www.bartleby.com/cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Muscovy (255 words)



HeraldicAmerica: HUDSON, FROBISHER & EARLY EXPLORATION OF CANADA

The Dictionary of National Biography, for example, indulges in outright speculation concerning his ancestry when it informs us that he "was not improbably, as has been conjectured, the grandson of Henry Hudson, or Herdson, alderman of London, who helped to found the Muscovyb> Company in 1555, and died in the same year.
This older Henry Hudson left many sons and kinsmen, whose names sometimes appear as Hoddeson and Hogeson, and who all seem to have been interested or connected with the Muscovyb> Company".
For example, if we suppose the navigator to have been the son of Henry Herdson of Muscovyb> Company fame, we might point to a Visitation of London in 1658, where is a record of Anne, the daughter of Henry Herdson, of London, who married a George Stodard, also of London.

http://pages.infinit.net/cerame/heraldicamerica/etudes/puzzles.htm (1762 words)



The History of New York State

Maps were drawn, journals were studied, and even though the company officially instructed Hudson to confine his explorations to the Northeast, there is reason to believe that these scientists who were advising Hudson were not flatly opposed to an endeavor being made in the opposite direction.
This agreement seems to have been promptly confirmed by the company, for the French ambassador, on January 29, was regretfully compelled to inform his sovereign that the English navigator was no longer free to serve him.
The Amsterdam chamber of the Eat India Company seems to have favored the plan, but opposition came from the Zeeland Department; so it was decided to defer consideration of the question until the gathering of the Council of the Seventeen, in the next year.

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/his/bk1/ch3/pt5.html (2763 words)



Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section - Russia Company

The Company quickly became known as the Russia Company, or Muscovyb> Company, or Company of Merchants Trading with Russia.
The history of the Russia Company begins in 1553, when a group of Londoners, said to number 240, financed an expedition to discover the north-east passage to Cathay.
However the surviving material, including minutes of the Court of the Company from 1666, is now deposited at Guildhall Library, and available for research by the public without prior formality.

http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/russia.htm (1227 words)



Roanoke Colony: Prelude to Jamestown?

However, his proposal was in conflict with the Muscovyb> Company's exclusive rights to trade between England and Russia.
The Muscovyb> Company, chartered 50 years before the Virginia Company that financed settlement in Virginia, was the first joint-stock company in Elizabethan England.
The Muscovyb> Company had already searched for a Northeast Passage across the northern edge of Russia, to facilitate the fur trade between Europe and Siberia.

http://www.virginiaplaces.org/settleland/roanokecolony.html (750 words)



Henry Hudson by Thomas A. Janvier

But while General Read failed to accomplish his main purpose, he did, as I have said, more than any other investigator has done to throw light on Hudson's ancestry, and on his connection with the Muscovyb> Company in whose service he sailed.
And, being akin to such folk, the natural disposition to adventure was so strong within him that it led him on to accomplishments which have made him the most illustrious bearer of his name.

http://www.manybooks.net/titles/janviert13441344213442-8.html (105 words)



Peter's Rum Pages - Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson was hired by the Muscovyb> Company in 1607, to find a waterway from Europe to Asia.
In 1821, the North West Company was merged unto the Hudson's Bay Company and the Company's title to the land was recognized by all parties.
The Hudson's Bay Company, one of the oldest, still active companies in the world, was almost 200 years old when Canada was created in 1867.

http://www.rum.cz/galery/nam/ca/hudsonsbay (1157 words)



WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567) - Online Information article about WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)

One of the promoters of the Muscovyb> Company, he was knighted in 1553, and in See also:
Company; growing wealthier he became an See also:

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/WAT_WIL/WHITE_SIR_THOMAS_1492_1567_.html (572 words)



The Open Door Web Site : History : England in the 1600s

The Muscovyb> Company successfully founded a trading post in Moscow and Elizabeth corresponded with the famous Tsar Ivan "the Terrible".
It was also during her reign that the first attempt was made to establish an English colony in North America, and, although the Roanoke colony failed, the modern state of Virginia was named after the queen.
Trading companies were founded by Merchant Venturers whose ships sailed off to create commercial links with Canada, the East Indies and even with Russia.

http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/chap5120.html (226 words)



Henry Hudson

After that failed voyage, the Muscovyb> Company had no real interest in continuing to explore.
The Muscovyb> Company hired him to explore arctic waters in an effort to find a short route to China.
The Muscovyb> Company tried to get Hudson to lead whalers north, but he declined.

http://www.edhelper.com/ReadingComprehension_33_214.html (658 words)

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