ABSTRACT
To the Sovereign Tsar and great Prince Fedor Ivanovich of all Russia, his servants Ivanets Vorotynski and his assistants make obeisance. It is written in your Majesty's letter received on the 28th of July of the current year ... that we are to send off the Georgian ambassadors from Kazan to Astarakhan together with Kuzma Sovin and under-dyak Andrey Polukhanov. Now, Dubrovin, a boyar's son from Murom who had been attached to the Georgian ambassadors for their journey home, has come to us, your servants, and told us that ambassador Khurshit wants to take one by the name of Lukoyanko, who escaped from the Nogays, with him to Georgia. We had him brought to us ... and on being questioned this Lukoyanko said that he was born in the Georgian land and that he was taken prisoner by the Crimeans; and from the Crimeans he was captured, Sire, by the Don Cossacks, Ivan Kishkin and his comrades, who sold him at Azov. And, Sire, he says that he went from Azov to Tsaritsyn when Ivan Buturlin was in command; and from Tsaritsyn he was carried to Kazan by Ivan Gubin. And, Sire, Lukoyanko wants to travel to Georgia with the ambassador because he is a native of Georgia. He has handed a petition to us, your servants; and, Sire, having glued the petition underneath this dispatch, we are sending it to you. Until we get your Majesty's command, we have entrusted Lukoyanko to the boyar's son Derevnya Kaysarov.
