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
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4. The Dutch Republic
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5. The Dutch in Muscovy
Kees Boterbloem

6. Muscovy
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7. In the Tsar’s Service
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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
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11. Liberation
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12. Reysen’s Readers
Kees Boterbloem

13. Reysen’s Creation and its Creators
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14. Genre and the Test of Time
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15. ‘Any Soil is the Fatherland for a Courageous Man’
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16. Conclusion
Kees Boterbloem

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