Staryy Angliyskiy Dvor

This guide to Staryy Angliyskiy Dvor in Moscow starts in 1553, when an English ship blown off course into the White Sea led its captain, Richard Chancellor, to the court of Ivan the Terrible, who granted the English this stone house on Varvarka Street to trade from, tax-free. You'll hear about Ivan's rejected marriage proposal to Elizabeth the First, and a century of English merchants shipping furs, hemp and wax from these rooms. It follows the chapter into 1649, when word of King Charles the First's execution in London reached Moscow and the tsar threw every English merchant out on the spot.