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  • 8 - Adam Olearius: Eyewitness Extraordinaire

  • from Part V - Adam Olearius
  • Nancy S. Kollmann, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe
    Published online:
    31 August 2024
    Print publication:
    29 August 2024, pp 193-218

  • Summary

    Chapter 8 introduces Adam Olearius, resident scholar at the court of Schleswig-Holstein in the first half of the seventeenth century. His account of travels through Russia to Persia, published first in 1647 and revised and enlarged for an edition of 1656, supplanted Herberstein and continued to be the most influential resource on Russia for a century. This chapter explores how Olearius designed his copiously illustrated book and how he conducted his research, personally visiting sites, collecting material objects and interviewing anyone and everyone in the many languages he mastered. It concludes by analyzing his lengthy travel account as a “Baroque novel” and a morality tale.