Polotsk, democratic institutions in, 11
effects of capture, 314
plague in, 59
Pomiéchtchiki, class, 22, 23, 38, 141
Pomiéstia, class, 38, 39, 148
Popler Wilhelm, 327
Populations, early Russian, 6
Possevino, Moscow, at, 343–348
Papal envoy between Poland and Russia, 319, 321, 326, 330–337
peace of Iam-Zapolski, negotiator in, 337–343
policy of, 328
Possokha, 160, 161
Posting system, 58
Postnikov, artist, 83
Pouchkine, Evstafii Mikhaïlovitch, envoy, 318–320
Poudojersk, port of, 292
Poutivl, fort at, 149
Povalnyï obysk, trial by, 49
Pozniakov, Vassili, 217, 218
Pozwol, 176
Praviéji, punishment, 49, 50
Priïmkov family, 226
Prijov, Monsieur, 32
Printing, absence of, 72; introduction of, 218, 219
Procopius reference to, 10
Pronski, Prince George Ivanovitch, 168
Prince Vassili, 249, 264
Protestantism in Russia, 258
Protopopov, moneylender, 395
Prussia, religious Orders in, 174
Pskov, absolutism in, 11
early government of, 1, 3, 4, 47
exports of, 53, 54
pillage of, by Ivan IV., 254
plague in, 59
siege of, by Batory, 321–326
Punishments: Golovoiou, 49
Praviéje, 49, 50
Purkel, Siege of, 213
Pypine, Monsieur, 78
Radclyffe, Thomas, Earl of Sussex, 288
Radziwill, Nicholas, cession of Livonia demanded by, 186; successes of, 190
Palatine of Vilna, 313
Prince Albert, envoy, 336–343
Rafli, 70
Rambaud, 56
Randolph, Thomas, mission to Russia, 279
Razine, Stenka, 398
Reforms, religious, 150–156
'service' in, 148, 149
Reforms, the first, 138 et seq.
Rej, Polish writer, 72
Religion (see also Church), superstition in, 69–71; reform in, 150–156
Repnine, Prince Michael, death of, 228
Reveillé-Parise, 380
Revel, ceded to Denmark, 174; held by Sweden, 187, 192; nobility of, appeal to Swedish King, 185; Ivan's claim to, 194; defended by John, King of Sweden, 197; besieged by Magnus, 203, 204; Russian repulse at, 213
Revenue, amount of, 61
Revski, envoy, 199
Rezanov, Athanasius, envoy, 313
Rhode, Kersten, 198
Riapolovski family, the, 221
Riazan, early government of, 3; absolutism in, 11; exports of, 53
Richards, Anne, 284
Richter, reference to, 178
Riga, 173, 178, 184, 187, 194, 341
Ritter, Rudolph, 292
Rjev, 6
Rjevski,169
Roads, condition of, 57, 58
Roberts, James, interpreter, 290, 295
Rod, the, 70
Rodolfini, 322
Roeskilde, 197
Rojanitsy, the, 70
Rojkov, Monsieur, 18, 51, 395
Rokita, John, 258, 259
Rome, Ivan's appeal to, 318, 319
mediation between Batory and Ivan, 331–337
policy of, 328, 329, 342–344
Ronneburg, 214
Rostov, early government of, 3; forests of, elk in, 53; flight of Ivan to, 199
Duke of, 243
Rostovski, Prince Nikita Dmitriévitch, 226
Prince Simon, councillor, 224
Rouskaïa pravda, 47, 142
Rovinski, 131
Rudolph of Vienna, 213, 309
Rujen, Siege of, 213
Runnafer, 194
Rurik, 7, 120
Russell, Francis, Earl of Bedford, 288
Russian Company, the, 277–292
Russo-Swedish alliance, 194, 195
Rybnikov, 272, 375
Rye, culture of, 50, 52
Sables, export of, 53
Sabourov, Eudoxia, 375
Salomelouriévna, 118
Sadko, legend of, 25
