ABSTRACT
Travellers and traders brought back information and misinformation, beginning with the picturesque contributions of the Elizabethans. It is a task for the industry of graduate study to collect all the passing references in the literature of the period to Russia, its language and drinks and fauna. Trade and diplomacy are important themes in the narratives of Jerome Horsey and of Giles Fletcher, father of the poets Phineas and Giles. The snow and the wolves are played up—as they continued to be by later travellers—snow so severe from November on 'that it would breede a frost in a man to looke abroad at that time and see the winter face of that countrie'; and wolves that issue in troops out of the woods in extreme winters and enter villages, tearing and ravening. The author of Alice in Wonderland made a tour to Russia in 1867. He kept a journal, but not until 1935 was his Russian Journal and Other Selections published.
