- Grigory Kotoshikhin
Grigory Karpovich Kotoshikhin ("Григорий Карпович Котошихин" in Russian) (c. 1630 - November of 1667,
Stockholm ) was aRussia ndiplomat ,podyachy of thePosolsky Prikaz , andwriter .In 1658–1661, Grigory Kotoshikhin was one of those sent on a
diplomatic mission to negotiate theTreaty of Valiesari andTreaty of Kardis withSweden . In the spring of 1664, he was dispatched to seePrince Yakov Cherkassky and take charge of his army's clerical work. In August, however, Grigory Kotoshikhin defected to theLithuanians and moved toSilesia . After that, he went to Stockholm viaNarva and was admitted to the Swedish service. In the fall of 1667, Kotoshikhin was executed for killing the owner of the house where he had been living.Grigory Kotoshikhin authored a work called "On Russia during the Reign of Alexey Mikhailovich" (first published in 1840), which represents a valuable source of history of the mid-17th century
Muscovite Russia . Kotoshikhin's historical account is quite detailed and correct, and most of the information in his book is confirmed by other sources of the 17th century. One has to consider the fact, however, that Kotoshikhin wrote his work at the request of the Swedish government and that some of his opinions on Russian 17-century realities arebias ed.External links
* [http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Kotosh.html Grigori Kotoshikhin on the Education of the Princes and on the Private Life of the Boyars] - in English
* [http://teacher.syktsu.ru/06/06_dokum/kotoshikhin/kotoshikhin.htm On Russia during the reign of Alexey Mikhailovich] - full online text in Russian
* [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC21573343&id=WaQKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PP9&lpg=PP9&dq=kotoshikhin Facsimile of above book] on Google Print.
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