Reprint edition of 1954 "Travels of Russian ambassadors of the XVI-XVII centuries". Stories of Russian ambassadors, which are extensive written reports on the fulfillment of their assignments, on everything seen and heard abroad and known in historical literature under the name "article lists," as they were called because the ambassadors were obliged to answer them The "articles" of the orders given to them do not belong to the monuments of fiction. Before us are documents of business writing intended for business purposes, for the needs of office work of the Ambassadorial Order in the first place. However, if we wanted to take into account their role in the historical and literary process, then this circumstance could not force us to dismiss them from the accounts of literature.