Heinrich von Staden (author)

This article is about the author of The Land and Government of Muscovy. For the historian and classical scholar, see Heinrich von Staden (historian).

Heinrich von Staden (1542–?) was a self-proclaimed "adventurer in Muscovy"[1] and wrote of his accounts at the court of Ivan IV of Russia (the Terrible) from 1578 to 1582.

  1. ^ Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History. Academic International Press. 1984.