The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys

1. Introduction: From Sailmaker to Celebrity
Kees Boterbloem

2. Struys’s Youth and Reysen’s First Journey
Kees Boterbloem

3. The Second Voyage
Kees Boterbloem

4. The Dutch Republic
Kees Boterbloem

5. The Dutch in Muscovy
Kees Boterbloem

6. Muscovy
Kees Boterbloem

7. In the Tsar’s Service
Kees Boterbloem

8. Reysen’s Muscovy and Struys’s Muscovy
Kees Boterbloem

9. The Volga Delta and the Oryol’s Demise
Kees Boterbloem

10. A Dutch Slave in Asia
Kees Boterbloem

11. Liberation
Kees Boterbloem

12. Reysen’s Readers
Kees Boterbloem

13. Reysen’s Creation and its Creators
Kees Boterbloem

14. Genre and the Test of Time
Kees Boterbloem

15. ‘Any Soil is the Fatherland for a Courageous Man’
Kees Boterbloem

16. Conclusion
Kees Boterbloem

Keywords: History, European History, Literature, general, Popular Science, general, History of Early Modern Europe, Modern History