Editing Notes on Muscovite Affairs (section)

==Historical note on Muscovy and Russia==

The Grand Duchy of Moscow, commonly referred to in the west as ''Muscovy'', in the 16th century was one of the Russian states which emerged after the collapse of [[Kievan Rus']] under pressure from the [[Golden Horde]]. Beginning in the early 15th Century, the Princes of Moscow began asserting their claim as the sole inheritor of the legacy of Kievan Rus'. Moscow would annex many of the other Russian principalities and would evolve into the [[Tsardom of Russia]] under [[Ivan the Terrible]] starting in the middle of the 16th century. Russia was the region, Moscow was the state until it was formally reorganized into the Russian Tsardom in 1547. Moscow was then ruled by the Muscovite monarchy, starting with [[Daniel of Moscow]] (1282–1303), who founded the Principality of Moscow, which under [[Ivan III]] saw rapid expansion, and ending with [[Ivan IV]], who claimed the title "Tsar of Russia" and proclaimed the Tsardom of Russia in 1547.

In this article, ''Russia'' and ''Muscovy'' are treated as similar entities. In land area there is not much difference between Muscovy and Russia west of the [[Ural Mountains]]. Herberstein wrote about ''Muscovy'' (region based on Moscow) because that is what it was known as in the West then. We know the area as ''Russia'', so that is how it is referred to here.