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Updated: May 24, 2025
A distinguished German, named Schlit, being in Moscow in 1547, informed the tzar of the rapid progress Germany was making in civilization and enlightenment.
Wonderful Change in the Character of Ivan IV. Confessions of Sin and Measures of Reform. Sylvestre and Alexis Adachef. The Code of Laws. Reforms in the Church. Encouragement To Men of Science and Letters. The Embassage of Schlit. War With Kezan. Disasters and Disgrace. Immense Preparation For the Chastisement of the Horde. The March. Repulse of the Tauredians. Siege of Kezan.
Schlit accepted the mission and hastened to Augsburg, where the Emperor Charles V. was then presiding over a diet. Schlit presented to him a letter from Ivan IV. relative to this business. Charles was a little doubtful as to the expediency of allowing illustrious men from his empire to emigrate and thus add to the consideration and power of a rival kingdom.
He accordingly had Schlit arrested. The corps of emigrants, thus deprived of their leader, and consequently disheartened, soon dispersed. Several months passed away before Ivan IV. received intelligence of the sad fate of his envoy.
Charles V. accordingly gave Schlit a written commission to raise his corps of emigrants. He soon assembled one hundred and twenty illustrious men at Lubeck, where they were to embark for Russia. But, in the mean time, the opposition had gained ground, and even Charles V. himself had become apprehensive that Russia, thus enlightened, might attain to formidable power.
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