PAGES OF ROMANIAN HISTORY IN THE WORKS OF ANDREI LYZLOV
Journal: Historical Yearbook
Year: 2021

Andrey Lyzlov, a career soldier and member of the Russian elite, was one of the first Russian historians.He was the author of The Scythian History, completed in 1692, a fairly vast controversial work which circulated in manuscript form, at first confined to the Muscovite elite with the purpose of urging its members to campaign against the Khanate of Crimea and the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the failed campaigns he himself had taken part in.The information he collected is gathered from va