- Varvakra Street 4A
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55.75168, 37.627481 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)
- The Old English Court Museum. Hill opposite the building. Closest to the peak small hexagonal column with botanical illustrations on it
- English name of the plant under the capitate sedge
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Dwarf Birch
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Историческая справка
The Kingdom of England and Tsardom of Russia established relations in 1553 when the English navigator Richard Chancellor failed to find a northern sea passage to India and arrived in Arkhangelsk – at that time Mary I ruled England and Ivan the Terrible ruled Russia. In 1555, Richard Chancellor established the Muscovy Company in London which became a key trade intermediary between England and Russia. In 1556, Tsar Ivan IV gave a palace on Varvarka Street over to the English so they could set up a trade office there. He also granted the English merchants the right to trade freely in Russia. In the 16-17th centuries England imported wool cloth, lead, weapons, metals, tableware, and luxury goods into Russia, while Russia exported wood, hemp, rope, wax, leather, caviar and other goods to England.
Ivan IV was in correspondence with the next English queen, Elizabeth I. By the way, Queen Elizabeth was the only woman to whom Russian tsar wrote letters. It is known that Elizabeth I received 11 letters from him. There is also a popular version that Ivan the Terrible offered the English queen to marry him but was rejected. Unfortunately, this version has no written confirmation. But in the letter dated by October 24, 1570, "secret affairs of great importance" were mentioned which Ivan IV conveyed to Elizabeth with her envoy, Anthony Jenkinson. Only these words and the subsequent angry letter of the Russian Tsar lead to the idea of a possible marriage.
The two monarchs did though continue their relationship in diplomacy, with Elizabeth at one point offering Ivan IV sanctuary in England, though cannily insisting that he be responsible for his own expenses. Ivan the Terrible may have been terrible for the Russians but he was the most friendly Tsar to the English. When he died, the Russian foreign minister said to the English ambassador: “Your English Tsar is dead.”
In 1649, the English revolution and the execution of King Charles I brought the monopoly of the Muscovy Company in Russia to an abrupt end. The Varvarka palace was returned to the state treasury. During the centuries, the building was rebuilt several times, completely losing its original appearance, but in in the mid-1960s it was found and restored by the architect Peter Baranovsky.
The official opening of the Old English Court was timed to the state visit of Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip on October 18, 1994.
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