Note 31 — Chapter IV · FROM IVAN THE GREAT TO IVAN THE TERRIBLE
Reading edition
Thus the courtiers regarded it as a matter of course that he should take away from his envoys the gifts made to them by the sovereigns to whom they had been accredited.
Reading edition
Thus the courtiers regarded it as a matter of course that he should take away from his envoys the gifts made to them by the sovereigns to whom they had been accredited.