Do you know any book(in english or Polish language) about Britain

Google "White Sea company" and see where that leads. Thats some of the earliest Anglo-Russian relations and it happened under Elizabeth I.

>>2859085
Ivan the terrible wanted to ally Elizabeth I, and marry but she never committed, and his successor was kinda a dick
So they just kept a fur trade company there, more interesting is the British colony in crimea

>>2859102
>British colony in crimea
tell me more it looks like very important thing but from the other hand Crimea was't Russian yet
>>2859100
yes, I have found something about Muscovy Company but nothing else. Next thing about relations with russians is Peter the Great and his trip to the west

>>2859102
>the terrible
the Formidable

>>2859085
Where I used to live in Greenwich there is a statue of Peter the Great commemorating the time he spent there learning from the shipwrights.
I thought it was petty cool.

>>2859731
Terrible meant something else back then
Just like amazing, awesome and great
>the genocide of the Jews was truly awesome

>>2859757
No, really, he was named the formidable, I don't know why englishmen come up with another name that will just misled the people

>>2859815
That was the English translation of the Russian

>>2859815
but he was terrible for his people(and son)

>>2859939
>unified Russia
Bad
>set it up for romanovs to rule
Bad
Niqqa wat

>>2860366
>kill your own son
not bad

>lost all war against Poland
not bad

>exhauste your country
not bad

>take all freedom from your subjects
not bad

Niqqa wat

>>2859085
Its too long and different even without jokes of 16-17 centuries.
1690-1790 common struggle against Sweden.
1790-1815 Napoleonic wars (including kill of Pavel I).
1815-1914 Big Game.
1914-1917 WWI.

>>2860579
>>take all freedom from your subjects
Seriosly? Read about Zemsky Sobor
>>lost all war against Poland
and Sweden and Grand Duchy of Lithuania who ganged up on his after he defeated the Livonian order

>>2862048
Poland told him to leave Livonian Order he choose otherwise like all bad ruler and get smashed like all bad ruler

>>2862481
t. polack

>>2859815
I was always under the impression that гpoзный meant fearsome or at the very least had some more ominous connotations than just formidable.
In any case, a synonym for fearsome/formidable especially at the time was terrible, and the name stuck.