"Italian letters from Muscovy" as an old pamphlet
Was Francesco Lokatelli the ancestor of Russophobia? Ivan Tolstoy: Today, the story will be completely forgotten, and at one time possessed an ambiguous reputation - a scientist, a traveler, and a scout (a spy, as they characterized him in Russia: well, who is against us, that is certainly a spy, this is understandable). His name was Francesco Lokatelli and he lived 300 years ago, but he wrote about Russia such a book that no one had dared to transfer it to our adverb.
