Basmanov, Feodor, Kourbski's opinion of, 232
Obolenski-Ovtchinine, quarrel with, 228
Batory, character of, 299–301
Cossack military system remodelled by, 302
election of, 188, 298, 299; Supported by the Sultan, 212
funds, scarcity of, 321
Iam-Zapolski, truce of, 337–343
Ivan the Terrible, struggles with, 171, 285, 286; campaigns against, 306–343; diplomatic relations with, 318–321
Magnus and, relations between, 214, 215
moderation of, 308, 309
Stephen, of Somlyo, 298
Batou, 62
Bear-baiting, 113, 114, 370, 371
Bearskins, white, export of, 53
Beckmann, 217 'Bee,' the, reference to, 65, 67, 73
Bekboulatovitch, Simeon, 260–263
Bekiesz, Gabriel, 324
Gaspard, 316
Berthold, Bishop, 173
Best, Robert, envoy to Russia, 281, 282
Romanus, commercial agent, 48, 49
Bestoujev family, the, 49
Bestoujev-Rioumine, 264, 391
Bezsonov, 375
Biéjets, district of, 4
Biela River, 3
Biélaiév, 310
Biélooziéro, fisheries of, 53
monastery at, 27, 104; Vassiane Kossoï in, 88, 89
Biélov, reference to, 264
Biélski, Athanasius, 325
Bogdan, councillor to Ivan the Terrible, 290, 292, 295, 333; favourite of, 366, 376; death of Ivan, connection with, 377, 378
family, 224, 230
Prince Ivan Dmitriévitch, pretensions of, 120; Biélooziéro, at, 121 ; Sigismund-Augustus and, 194; death of, 199 ; prosecution of, 229, 230; Ziémchichina, at head of, 246
Simon, at Kazan, 157
Birds, export of, 54
Black Cross Knights, 174–177
Blajennyié, the, 114, 115
Blandrata, 300
Bobyli, class, 19, 20
Boch or Bochius, Opritchniki, account by, 266
Bockhorn, Christian, 258
Boë, 303
Bohemian and Moravian brothers, the, 258
Boïars, aristocracy of Russia, the, 7–10
Council of the, 35
dress and manners of, 109–111
first assembly of, 133–135
government of the, 120–123
Ivan, opposition to, 225
literature among the, 220
Boïarskaïa Douma, the, 36, 223
Bolkhovski, Prince Simon, 356
Bolognetti, Papal Nuncio, 349
Bomel or Bomelius, Elysius, 110, 283, 284
'Book of the Hundred Chapters,' 152, 155
Boratynski, reference to, 349
Borovski, Paphnucius, monk, 119
Botvid, John, 64
Boudomirovitch, legend of, 25
Boulat, Tartar warrior, 157
Boulew or Lueo, Nicholas (Niemtchine), 344
Boutourline, Ivan Mikhaïlovitch, 316
Bowes, Jeremy, embassy of, 290–297
Brakel, Tilman, preacher, 17
Brattchiny, 110, 111
Bribery, prevalence of, 50
Bromley, Lord and Lady, 289
Brothers of the Sword, order of the, 174
Buchau, 95
Buckwheat, culture of, 50
Budget, the Muscovite, 61
Burckhard, chaplain, 269
Burrough, Mr. Stephen, 276
Byzantine chronicles, reference to, 10
Cabot, Sebastian, 273
Cahun, Monsieur Léon, 62
Caligari, Papal Nuncio, 327, 330, 331
Calvinism in Moscow, 258
Cannon, first use of, 162
Carelia, iron and mica found in, 54; Batory’s fight in, 317
Cartier, Joseph, 273
Casimir of Poland, 63, 117, 250
Castiglione, Baldassare, 78
Catherine, Queen of Sweden, 189, 190, 199
Cellini, 269
Cerularius, Michael, 343
Chamane, the, 69
Chancellor, Richard, expedition to Russia, 273, 274, 275; return to England, 275; death of, 276
impressions of Russia, 357
reference to, 162, 272, 361
Charles the Bold, 1
Chaudoir, reference to, 60
